IIRC, cursive capital Q is supposed to start way down, so that it’d look like an O with a broken infinity symbol in its butt, like this:
The direction of the strokes in the image is not how I learned it, though. Stroke 1 for the capital starts where stroke 2 starts, but going clockwise until just past where it starts, then smoothly start the second stroke (same direction as shown in the image).
However, I can see how it can look like a more flowy 2 and how people can say “yeah, that’s a capital Q.” Heck, cursive lowercase r barely looks like an r but people kinda get it.
Oh, yeah! It can vary from place to place and even from school to school even in the same place! There were even people saying that they can guess from which school someone graduated from based on how they do cursive. I think that’s just nuts.
My cursive nowadays is just reserved for when I really need to write fast, and would tend towards some kind of a personal shorthand than any sort of legibility. 😅
IIRC, cursive capital
Qis supposed to start way down, so that it’d look like anOwith a broken infinity symbol in its butt, like this:The direction of the strokes in the image is not how I learned it, though. Stroke 1 for the capital starts where stroke 2 starts, but going clockwise until just past where it starts, then smoothly start the second stroke (same direction as shown in the image).
However, I can see how it can look like a more flowy
2and how people can say “yeah, that’s a capital Q.” Heck, cursive lowercaserbarely looks like anrbut people kinda get it.Perhaps in your school. When I was in grade school learning cursive, the Q started high and looked like a 2.
I’m actually glad if they changed it.
These days, I avoid writing, but can do cursive, and will aim more for recognizable upper-case letters than standards.
Oh, yeah! It can vary from place to place and even from school to school even in the same place! There were even people saying that they can guess from which school someone graduated from based on how they do cursive. I think that’s just nuts.
My cursive nowadays is just reserved for when I really need to write fast, and would tend towards some kind of a personal shorthand than any sort of legibility. 😅