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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a hard time believing it would be even remotely difficult to read cursive if you were never taught it. If presented with your dear grandmother's letter, you really wouldn't be able to figure it out? It's not code or a foreign language.[/quote]

I don't see how someone who never learned cursive would recognize a cursive lowercase B, F, Q, R, or V or uppercase F, G, I, L, Q, S, T, or Z. That's a lot of letters.[/quote]

They would recognize them from context. (Unless your dear grandmother was in the habit of writing individual uppercase Fs (or whatever) in her letter. Like a code.)

I can't read my dear great-grandfather's letters, because he wrote them in a German handwriting that nobody born after World War II can read.

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm[/quote]

Exactly. Plus, some of the above mentioned letters would most definitely be easy to identify alone. Lowercase b? Really? S? F? V? Seriously, none of these are difficult. Maybe q is a little unusual. Are you incapable of reading calligraphy? It's not hard.[/quote]

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