The Handwriting Topic!

[Callid]

Yes, Callid.  That is what cursive "I"s are supposed to look like.

Funny. Because in both German cursives, the "I" looks completely different: old and new. (I use the old one, BTW)
In this case, I have to agree - English cursive is needlessly complicated

[Abs.]

Yes, Callid.  That is what cursive "I"s are supposed to look like.

Funny. Because in both German cursives, the "I" looks completely different: old and new. (I use the old one, BTW)
In this case, I have to agree - English cursive is needlessly complicated

Dude both of those look like "J"

[PT]

Yes, Callid.  That is what cursive "I"s are supposed to look like.

Funny. Because in both German cursives, the "I" looks completely different: old and new. (I use the old one, BTW)
In this case, I have to agree - English cursive is needlessly complicated

Dude both of those look like "J"

^My thoughts exactly.

[Commi-Ninja]

Dude both of those look like "J"

^My thoughts exactly.

Glad I wasn't alone on that.

[aly_angelflight]

Yes, Callid.  That is what cursive "I"s are supposed to look like.

Funny. Because in both German cursives, the "I" looks completely different: old and new. (I use the old one, BTW)
In this case, I have to agree - English cursive is needlessly complicated

Dude both of those look like "J"

Or English cursive T.

[Akonyl]

Dude both of those look like "J"

^My thoughts exactly.

Glad I wasn't alone on that.

to be fair, I'd rather my I look like a J and my J look like a J than have the I look like something that barely resembles a letter you know and have the J bear its closest resemblance to the cursive Z and to no letter in print. At least it's 50% right.

though, if we switched those letters I'd have to change my signature, soooo let's keep the English ones. :V

[Soreiyu]

Looking on Google there are a lot of different styles of cursive. I'd still like to know why capital Q looks like the number 2...

I still have trouble distinguishing my lowercase y and z... >_>

[Edogawa4869]

Spoiler:

[Abs.]

Edo

[Akonyl]

while I can read all three, your print is 10x better than your cursive.

[Commi-Ninja]

while I can read all three, your print is 10x better than your cursive.

This.

[Callid]

Yes, Callid.  That is what cursive "I"s are supposed to look like.

Funny. Because in both German cursives, the "I" looks completely different: old and new. (I use the old one, BTW)
In this case, I have to agree - English cursive is needlessly complicated

Dude both of those look like "J"

Not really:
- The J goes below the bottom line, the I does not.
- The J has a loop at the bottom, the I does not.
- The J has one stroke, the I has two (at least if your word has another letter after the I, which any German word has).
It's about as similar as P and R, M and N, U and V, V and W are. Oh, and it's way easier to tell apart than an English cursive q and g
Actually, the things that REALLY look alike in the (old) German one are H and X (which doesn't really matter, though, as the X at the beginning of a word is extremely rare in German - there are only about half a dozen words like that, and the only one commonly used is "Xylophon")

[PT]

We're talking about the English, non-cursive J, which does not go below the line, nor does it have a loop at the bottom.

[Callid]

We're talking about the English, non-cursive J, which does not go below the line, nor does it have a loop at the bottom.

Well, this one lacks the line on top
Not to mention that a character amidst cursive characters should be read as cursive

[PT]

I don't usually have the line on top when I wrote a capital, non-cursive J. A lot of people don't.

Anyway, the point was, to people who have grown up looking at English letters, your "I" looks like our "J"