Submitted 2 hours ago by sem@piefed.blahaj.zone to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Why don't cursive numbers exist?
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?
Traditionally numbers in text should be written out fully, so “three hundred and twenty seven” instead of “327”
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.
In a legal setting even those long numbers are still spelled out in contracts in many jurisdictions.
It’s not hard rules, though. There’s a myriad of publishing styles. Each define different rules and guidelines to when and where numbers are spelled out. Hyphen was dropped from several guides, for example. The and has also been optional for certain publishing houses for a while. Academic and literary will differ in how they enforce this guides and exactly what they are. Language is relative, changing and fluid, and this was all different mere 30 years ago. It moves with the expectations of the audience.
Also, it is six seven. Respect the memes guidelines.
but three hundred twenty-seven otherwise
Depends on the dialect. That "and" is a requirement in British English.
The “and” is necessary in British English at least (saying that the US constitution uses it)
(In older forms it would be three hundred and seven and twenty)
I thought that was only for single digit numbers. Or is that a more recent convention?
I don’t know how universal it was, but in old documents it’s common to see dates written out fully in the form of “on the thirty-first day of January in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-six”
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 curse it was to connect the letters.
I searched online for cursive connected members, but I couldn’t find any.
I’d imagine that whereas you can guess at confusing cursive letters in words from the others around them, you can’t do that with digits.
We learned numbers in cursive class
Who said they don’t include numbers
Me
Why did you think there aren’t cursive numbers?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Uppercase letters in succession don’t work in cursive. And almost nobody uses lowercase numbers, even back then.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 46 minutes ago
Finally an answer. Thank you.
4am@lemmy.zip 8 minutes ago
fucken gottem by accident lol