50 pen strokes
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The whole point of cursive is that there is one stroke per word. except for dotting the “i” and “j” and crossing the “t”.
Honestly...Our ancestors were NOT stupid. In the days before typewriters and computers they figured out that cursive was faster than printing, otherwise, it would not have had universal acceptance.
When we did not have computers, and we had hand entries into our ledgers and patient records, I **DID** check the penmanship of potential employees. And...I did **NOT** hire people who could not write legibly. Believe me, there are plenty of people out there in the world who can not write clearly with either printing or cursive.
It’s one pen CONTACT per word, not one pen stroke. There’s a difference. Cursive moves your pen around a lot, in printing a t is 2 strokes (the vertical and the horizontal) but in cursive because you have to do the up and down on the vertical it’s 3. Most strokes.
Cursive didn’t have universal acceptance. Cursive was for the elite class that had time to kill on that kind of thing. The writing in universal acceptance was printing. That’s why the printing press mimicked printing not cursive. That’s why even before the printing press anything intended for a pass audience was in print not cursive.
And there you go again assuming that being against the wasted time teaching cursive puts me against penmanship. It’s funny that the person that thinks flourishes in her writing are so important keeps adding flourishes to what she reads. Stop assuming, you’re no good at it, stick to what I write and ONLY what I write, every single time you’ve added something it’s been wrong.