It was the first time a system was developed that took note of how the hand moved ergonomically in order to create a natural way of writing (drawing) unnatural letters, and linking them together.

This system allows you to write cursive with exceptional flow and - if you wish - flair, rather than simply copying complicated shapes and then having that body memory inevitably degrade over the years.

Ah, I imagine it’s what I learned, without anyone saying it was special, so it’s just what I consider the default.

I never got any good at it, but after 28 years my ability hasn’t degraded either.

I thought I lost my touch, but all my remaining writings from 28 years ago show exactly the same level of suck xD. So at least the part about body memory seem to be completely correct.

It is weird, it feels backward. When I look at the writing in the scans in the pdf, it looks less fluent and more typewriter styled than how we learned to write at school. For example, the h has no loop, the capitals seem not to have extra loops wrt their non-capital counterpart. This means that you will lift your pen more often.

That said, I think it reads easier than fully cursive, because it is less dense.