 "Cursive (also
known as joined-up writing is any style of penmanship in
which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for
the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block
letters. It varies in functionality and
modern-day usage across languages and regions; being used both publicly
in artistic and formal documents as well as in private communication.
Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination
of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as
"looped", "italic",
or "connected". The cursive method is used with many alphabets due to
infrequent pen lifting and beliefs that it increases writing speed.
Despite this belief, more elaborate or ornamental styles of writing can
be slower to reproduce. In some alphabets, many or all letters in a word
are connected, sometimes making a word one single complex stroke. Source
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