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Buran D'Nealian cursive is what I learned as well - though I had no idea until you posted in this thread that that was what it was called.
I must say that desertblues' copperplate cursive is much prettier and certainly more elegant!
Like desertgrandma, my cursive was never elegant. I wrote in cursive until I went to college, and then suddenly started to print instead because is was so much faster (for me anyway) for taking notes in classes/lectures. Now I can't even write in cursive when I try, except for my signature. My printing wasn't and isn't elegant, either; sometimes I really struggle to decipher what I have written.
Now of course, college kids - and high school kids as well, from what ProfCrash posted -probably use their laptops for taking notes, but no such device existed (for the "masses" anyway) when I was there. After all, when I was growing up the only calculator allowed in classes was the slide rule! (At least we were past the abacus stage.
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