I was wondering about writing systems with such elaborate characters as
Tamil and Malayalam (perhaps not the best examples). Are those written
cursively, such as in personal letters?

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As well, I wonder what script is best adapted to muscles involved in
writing. I find, for instance, that it's far easier to write u's and w's
than n's and m's. For me, it takes extra effort to make an upstroke in an
[n], continue in a clockwise curve while keeping the stroke well above the
writing line, before finishing with the final down stroke. Perhaps I'm
simply lazy, not having practiced enough to strengthen muscles for those
movements. (The zigzag strokes of Kurrent come to mind.)

I've seen a few photos of cursive Hebrew graffiti, and that script looks
really easy to write.

My father, well educated in Tsarist Russia, wrote cursively in a clear
hand. He had studied Latin and Greek concurrently (for seven years!), so
he must not have been restricted to cursive Cyrillic. When he started to
write a lot of English, his cursive n's and m's looked much like u's and
w's, but he wrote straight overbars above them to remove ambiguity. I
adopted that practice. Apparently, it is done in parts of southeastern
Europe.

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