Dotting The Eyes And Crossing The Teas

[AidenMark]

When writing cursive script I have tried to train my hand not to add dots and crosses until the end of the word as this seems to be faster than lifting the pen mid-word

 

Of course dotting and crossing can take almost as long as writing the word in the first place, especially in European latin alphabets which use acents, umlaut characters and cedillas to add to a plethora of dots and dashes.

 

German latin cursive has one trick up its sleeve which I haven't seen in modern English cursive - writing a lower case "t" without needing to go back and cross it.

 

You can see Julie Turrie forming the letter at 6:10 in this video

 

Does anyone have any tricks to reduce the number of dots and crosses in their cursive writing?

Edited April 12, 2018 by AidenMark

[AAAndrew]

Interesting. I e not seen that form for a lower “t” before. By itself it looks to me like a capital “A” but would probably be clearer in the context of a word.

 

I don’t have any tricks for reducing dots and crosses. I actually enjoy the act of dotting and crossing. It makes me feel like I’ve completed something, I suppose. If I had to think about it. I guess I find dotting more burdensome than crossing as it can take slightly longer to find the “i” in a word than a “t”.

 

Now I’m going to play around and see if I can come up with something that looks good and works for me.