The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)

Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013) by zwkrt on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:47PM (#20797330)

I have found two quirks related to international writing styles. The first, as you found, is that people from China tend to have very neat handwriting. The second, (which I don’t know is generalizable) is that my Eastern European coworkers invariably wrote in cursive script.

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Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013) by sannee on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:38AM (#20798677)

At least in Czechia, cursive was taught until very recently. These days kids mostly learn Comenia Script [1].

[1] - http://www.lencova.eu/cs/gal_ukazky_cs

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Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013) by Hitton on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:24AM (#20799221)

Although Comenia Script was very hyped, it hasn't become very widespread. Last data I'm aware of gave percentage of schools using it at only 4 percents.

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Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013) by Xelbair on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:43AM (#20798982)

Because over here it is taught as a default script.

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Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013) by zwkrt on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:35AM (#20800693)

Yes, I figured as much! The interesting thing culturally is that in the US everyone is (was?) taught cursive script and is told it is very important to know, but somewhere around the age of 11-12 it is entirely dropped out of the curriculum and never mentioned again.

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