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It's cursive so if you are young enough that wasn't taught to you in school, cursive Z looks nothing like printed Z so there's no reason you WOULD see it.
Haha same. I read it immediately. I did always have a problem writing z’s. I used to journal in cursive just to keep the practice up. I’m gonna do that again. Mainly just stopped journaling in general.
I was old enough to learn and such, but still don’t remember how to write or read a cursive Z. This might be the first time I’ve seen one written in 30+ years
Ugly cursive, but yeah. Just as people are no longer going to be able to write it, they won’t be able to read it anymore. We’ll be reading this like ancient scripture.
Yep. It's a completely different cursive than the one you learned. That's why I'm struggling to read OP's image even though I did learn cursive at school.
Yeah, imagine me freaking out when I encountered the US cursive "G" for the first time as a kid. That one's really impossible to figure out without prior instructions.
In your defense, I was going to say "it's trying to say zen". Which, is kind of ironic, because it's something we step on and wipe our gross shoes all over. Normalize door mats that have our enemies and/or insecurities on them.
I was learning it in the 2nd grade here in VA in 1996....then we moved to NC halfway through the school year and my class there was still doing first grade stuff. NC never taught us cursive or required us to write in it.
I'm the opposite. I switched schools, same state different districts, only like 15mins apart and the new school held me back. They made me repeat the 2nd grade because I hadn't been taught cursive in the previous district yet... looking at it now kinda messed up considering cursive isn't utilized anymore.
Yeah, I did a quick search after I posted. Common Core excluded cursive writing when it rolled out in 2010, but over the last 10 years, many states have reintroduced it. My home state just made it a requirement again earlier this year.
Cursive z's were always stupid. Like, the end of the z is right there at the beginning of the e, WTF did we let some Victorian tell us it needed a more dramatic loop than a j or g.
It was probably some idiot at Oxford who thought zetas were rad or some bull$hit.
I hate to break it to you, but handwriting is not supposed to look like the super loopy smooth letters that they teach you on a chalkboard when you’re six.
That is in fact what a lowercase N is supposed to look like. It’s not supposed to look like the letter M. And it reveals how we get from calligraphy/handwriting n to metal type n.
I hate this. Drilled that shit into our heads in school that high school and college everything was going to have to be done in cursive. Then computers happened and now they are teaching math in the most luscious ways that that is becoming a foreign language 🥴
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