r/whatisit • u/Apprehensive_Pace615 • 17h ago

Solved! What does it say?

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u/stroomer87 17h ago

Zen

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u/Apprehensive_Pace615 16h ago

Wow I feel like an idiot at how quickly people see it but at the same time it is so hard to read

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u/Better-Lunch670 16h ago

Do you not know how to write?

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u/halfpighalfmanbear 16h ago

TBF, I think they stopped teaching cursive in American public schools like 20 years ago.

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u/Flathead89 16h ago

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.

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u/mindlessfreak30 16h ago

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.

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u/Better-Lunch670 16h ago edited 16h ago

It was a real question. I see now that it sounded kinda rude. My bad.

Actually half of the US requires cursive to be taught in school.

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u/halfpighalfmanbear 16h ago

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.

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u/N00bPolymath 16h ago

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.