to me "block letters" would imply ASSCAPS.

It implied that to me, but since I can't imagine writing more than a sentence in ASSCAPS, and I'm entirely normal, can't be, can it?

Or perhaps my logic is flawed somewhere.

Fountain pens were mandatory in high school for me, and calligraphy was mandatory for my sister in her last prep school. Not like a calligraphy class, but they had to do all their writing in italics with a slant-nib pen.

I only calligraphed as a hobby.

I have terrible handwriting and really the only thing I write in cursive is my signature. I always had problems with it and tended to mix up cursive and printing when I had to handwrite stuff in school. Probably had something to do with either being taught to write by somebody who didn't understand how to teach a left-hander to write. or something.

I use an odd combo of cursive and print.

I'm not at my most alert and focused today.

Obviously, you haven't acted on the results of your own research.

How interesting to see that other people mix up the writing styles too. Huh.

I'm a great admirer of elders who were schooled in "The Palmer Method" (which eerily reminds me of Twin Peaks)...such grace and intention when writing. Makes the communication seem...well...more sophisticated somehow.

It implied that to me, but since I can't imagine writing more than a sentence in ASSCAPS, and I'm entirely normal, can't be, can it?

Ha. I have this vision of all the kids these days writing like architects, since that's who I think of when I think of block printing. And when we had "mechanical drawing" for a quarter in 8th grade, basically the whole class was taken up by learning how to write the alphabet in graph paper. Good times.

My kids have been taught D'Nealian handwriting in school, which is a mix of print and cursive. The printed letter have a certain slant to them, which is supposed to make it easier to write cursive when the time comes.

I usually print these days, although a couple letters always wind up joined somewhere. I just tried to write a sentence in cursive and was amazed how unaccustomed to it I've become.

I think of block letters as being small caps, too, rather than ASSCAPS.

Big Cats in Arizona!

How cool! Yay for jaguars! They're really such a gorgeous animal, aren't they?

And yet another reason why a bigass fence is such an unbelievably stupid idea.

being taught to write by somebody who didn't understand how to teach a left-hander to write.

So very This, with most things, eh? Especially in the dark ages of my yout. What a pain to be so 'different' and yet, really not different at all.

My stepmother positively despaired trying to teach me to knit. I swear, I became ambidexterous in self defense.

Forget trying to use left handed scissors. I am borg.

I hate writing anything by hand. Filling out forms and signing my name are about the only times I do it. I much prefer to run envelopes through a laser printer than address an envelope by hand.