Cursive
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Cursive 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 functional
Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script, from 1884
Looped cursive, as taught in Britain in the mid-20th century
Half of the National Anthem of Bangladesh, written in cursive Bengali
Classical poem in cursive script at Treasures of Ancient China exhibit
Shorthand
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Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand
Cursive
…Secretary hand Shorthand Spencerian Method…
Dutch stenography using the "System Groote"
Sun Guoting's Treatise on Calligraphy, an example of cursive writing of Chinese characters
A reporter taking notes at the White House in shorthand, March 2009
Tombstone of Heinrich Roller, inventor of a German shorthand system, with a sample of his shorthand