Cursive handwriting, the three R’s and technology
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By Oreta Wright
Sun Columnist
The history of handwriting goes back thousands of years. Because the Roman Empire extended so far, so did its alphabet. Most survives as capitals.
We have little evidence of cursive writing at the time, but some survives. We think of cursive as writing that is joined with loops. The cursive and basic lowercase letters derive from the Italic that developed in the 14th century Renaissance, a time of extraordinary art and learning.
Italic handwriting has been the method of choice among some Europeans and Americans ever since the Renaissance. Italic writing came to the Americas primarily through Spanish conquests.
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