People be writing words with the letters all connected in cursive so the quill didn’t have to lift up or whatever.
How come they didn’t do that with the digits in numbers?
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Uppercase letters in succession don’t work in cursive. And almost nobody uses lowercase numbers, even back then.
Finally an answer. Thank you.
Edit: wait a second… If lowercase numbers did connect, and were once used, why not any more?
I can’t find any results for “connecting cursive numbers” or “joining cursive numbers”.
Traditionally numbers in text should be written out fully, so “three hundred and twenty seven” instead of “327”
Also western Arabic numerals are relatively new to English, before we used Roman numerals, which are all upper case.
In typesetting, numbers ten and under are always spelled out, and also numbers at the start of a sentence of any size. Numbers one, through ninety-nine are hyphenated if spelled out, ninety-nine percent of typesetters agree. Also, the “and” is frowned upon. It should be “three hundred and twenty-seven”, if quoting, if that is what was said, but three hundred twenty-seven otherwise.
However, numerals in text is fine, outside of the limitations above, and there are lowercase numerals in many classic typefaces that are less jarring to the eye in body type than the uppercase numerals.
Consider the number, 1,234,567. Spelled out, it’s one million two hundred thirty-four thousand five hundred sixty-seven. That’s cumbersome. That would almost always be written with numerals, and not spelled out. And, a sentence including it should be written to keep it from the beginning.
(Yes, children, I said sixty-seven, please try to contain yourselves.)
The meme isn’t sixty seven, pops.
… You apparently haven’t been around the kids who push this annoying meme? They absolutely would count “sixty seven” as “six seven” without a split second of thought.
First off, only a subset of cursive systems connect all letters. These are called Continuous Cursive. Second, many cursive writing systems do include numbers.
Huh, I thought the only point of cursive was to connect the letters.
I searched online for cursive connected numbers, but I couldn’t find any.
They are not connected to each other, they’re just fancy. That’s not cursive.
0/3 of these are connected.
The two and zero aren’t connected in this either. I am coming to accept that numbers are not connected in cursive. And elsewhere in the thread, it is said that this is done for clarity. So thank you, Mr. Snark, for your contribution. Even if you did not intend to contribute and just wanted to dunk on me.
