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I don’t understand the burn, you learn to write in “print” first and then cursive.

Maybe not, but I'd never heard of cursive until I saw the word used on BP a year ago. I always called it joined-up writing, which I started to learn when I was 7.

@Marissa They didn't burn anyone. It's just USA hate, and it's immature. Obviously other people from the UK have stated they learned it differently, which is absolutely fine. But OP stated neither system. Including their own home taught. So they thought they'd be funny, and say something unintelligent. Because their own people have learned it, as joined writing, this person didn't learn either form, yet has the nerve to talk s**t to an entire country. Here she was thinking she's all bright, especially with the "in the UK we just call it writing..." Apparently not. It was a bandwagon statement. Please don't speak on "behalf of the USA" either. I can speak for myself, and unlike this one tard, I'm not naive enough to think that all people from the UK are that dense or uneducated.

Yeah dude we have enough problems

I’ve always known it was called cursive. Learnt it as joined-up writing but later knew it as cursive

Since they never said any country name they could have been talking about Canada for all we know.

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On behalf of the UK, yes we do! And we learned about worldwide geography too.

I hate joined up handwriting and I still ½ join it ½ don't now

Every generation is the same. A bunch of morons getting to grips with the latest technology. Whether that was quill and ink or the newest iPad upgrade, everyone is still a dumbass no matter when they were born.

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Envious chavs wearing American trainers will do everything they can to belittle a place they’ve never been but have dreamed about going. I grew up between Netherlands and San Francisco, with family in the UK. I’ve visited my good friends council flat (what in the US we’d call a housing project or welfare apt) in Bristol and I’ve seen the rough part of towns at night. I’ve seen National Front Thatcher defenders marching in London, witnessed inbreds defend Brexit and the slew of PMs over the past 50 years. There’s nothing different at these things in the UK and US. At least the general public in the US is friendlier than most places. Don’t trust anyone whose argument is simply criticize something they know nothing about. Being able to leave school without A-levels? Ya, that’s the same as dropping out in the USA.

I volunteer at a local archive and some of the handwriting I see is just AMAZING! So I have pictures on my phone of pretty handwriting and then I try to copy it sometimes. Lol.

It also produced the people that voted against Brexit.

One word...Trumpsters

Same! We were always taught to avoid "joined-up writing" like the plague. My writing is c**p now but that's probably more of an insight into my jumbled mind!

In the infants in the 60s we learned to write in italics; I think only certain schools did it as an experiment. Kids slightly younger than me got hit by a wider spelling experiment in which they had an expanded alphabet which included vowels like æ, œ etc. apparently many of had real problems adapting to more normal writing.

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Can you read cursive? Have you ever read the US constitution?

i will take your india comment and raise you with native american treatment and segregation , dental hygiene vs a health care that charges people from the cradle to the grave , soccer f**k off its football and its possible to like both football and american football unbelievable i know , our food sucks ? mcdonalds vs a sunday roast , plastic canned cheese vs proper cheese , i could go on but i have a life

Actually, when signing forms and stuff we specify that you should "print" your name. Sign here, print here. Because it's just assumed that anyone past primary school level uses "joined up writing". Hence it just being called writing. We specify to print your name because it instructs people to not write in normal writing ("cursive") for clarity

So BPanda deleted a comment that got 7 Upvotes AND was statistically and empirically true. THIS is the hill that BPanda mods are willing to fight on. I wonder what BRI-ISH BPanda mod who was embarassed about his country's lack of proper History education or it's lack of governmental investment in systems that could result in the average BRI-ISH person not having teeth that look like someone glued a bunch of Dominoes to a photograph and then smashed it with a baseball bat several times. My response to a BRI-ISH mod deleting my comment: "How embarassing for you... btw your public health care system is somehow SIGNIFICANTLY worse that the US... One of the only countries I can say that about. Not sure how Britain turned from a worldwide empire to a simple small island nation of Brexit rednecks with a terrible education system and people with jacked up teeth, but I guess if I do what you want I can ignore all the statistics and proveable facts and ALSO what my British friends say...

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Not sure where you ate but the "your food sucks" is beyond dated. Our food was pretty bland on the whole in the past. For decades now the choice and quality has been as good as it gets. Ditto dental care although that's in the process of going backwards, so you're right but for the wrong reasons. You're being as lazy as the op. Brexit is a huge embarrassment but at the time 48% of us were horrified and now the majority wish we hadn't done it. Europeans know that there are two types of Brits, thankfully. I mean, yes, there's a shameful level of stupidity in this "septic" isle. But just like the US isn't filled to the brim with dumb a$$h0lz, we're not filled to the brim with stupid (drunk) ar$eh0lz.

Not to mention they've replaced "ugly Americans" as the worst tourists by many countries. We have "terrible education systems" but we're generally not the ones that are drunk louts en masse.

We didn't call it cursive when I was in school. Just writing. You had printing vs writing. This was in British Columbia during the 60s.

I'm sorry but this string (entire site) is for s******g on the US, please refrain from defending the US from insult.

Absolutely untrue