Kinda makes me wonder why he didn't write that sign in cursive. Kind of a missed oppertunity to accually use it
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But then no one would be able to tell what it says
fair, but it would look nice i guess
If you do a lot of writing by hand, cursive is a lifesaver.
Nope.
Legibility > speed.
Only if you suck at cursive. Depending on how much effort I put in, both my cursive and print writing can look nice, but writing cursive causes mess stress over time. If I'm just jotting a quick note it doesn't matter and both look like ass, but if I'm taking notes for lecture or in a D&D campaign or something like that, where I'm writing a bunch over an hour or more, I see a huge drop off in quality after a bit of time when writing print.
My mother sucks at cursive then. I have to constantly call her when I do her shopping. If it was for personal notes, it wouldn't matter, but if you're communicating with other people, it's terrible.
Only if you suck at cursive.
I do, because despite all the work I put into it the letters all blur together. I forget a hump or two whem writing something like communication in cursive, and no amount of practice made a difference.
I can generally read poorly written cursive more easily than well done cusrive because I recognize which letters tend to be skewed. My father in laws lwriting was easier for me to read as his arthritis got worse!
But printed letters are always easier to read, which is why nobody uses cursive fonts when they type something up.
Meh, my handwriting sucks either way...
Mine is that of a child. It’s embarrassing.
I can read my own cursive just fine, and it's way easier to write than printing each letter individually.
Maybe in some cases, I remember struggling in school to write fast enough to finish exams in time and also keep it readable.
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It's the only thing that keeps my chronic tendinitis from making me unable to write altogether
I switched schools for high school after being in a British private school since the first grade. I was shocked at seeing anyone write in block print for the first time. Up until then I genuinely thought that cursive was the only way to hand-write and that block was reserved for little kids just learning to write.
EDIT: That school even had a calligraphy class that taught us how to write with a fountain pen. I have no idea what world they were preparing us for.
I learned cursive in Canada after living in the UK for a while. When I went back to the UK and went to Sheffield everyone was like, "he knows how to do the joint up writing!" I can't remember the exact year but we were going to start preparing for our GCSEs. Then I left again and went back to Canada.
I am American but I spent my childhood in the Caribbean. My mom wanted to make sure I had a good education so she enrolled me in a private school started and run by a posh British couple to educate the children of the expats stationed there back when agricultural exports were big business (1950's??). I think they taught us they way they were taught as children in their preppy schools at the turn of the century.
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I learned cursive to pro actively fuck with the people that didn't
Imagine not using the faster, cooler way of writing
I don't remember the last time I hat to write something on paper except for signatures
Typing?
I don't have to imagine.
Is it speaking into your phone? Thats what I see the youngins do
I have lovely cursive handwriting and I'm proud of it
My handwriting is anal sauce but at least at one point I wasn't terrible at calligraphy. Those two things are not related skills at all.
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I guess it's a good thing he wrote it in print. Nobody would've been able to read it otherwise.
Gen x? No, millennials were the last Gen to learn cursive
I don't think one has to be the last to learn a thing in order to be able to realize how pointless learning it was.
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My kid is learning it now (UK primary school). His writing is awful because he's supposed to do it the way he's taught instead of finding his own way to make it legible. He has a talent for drawing neat little cartoons, so he can clearly manage a pencil, but his writing is near unreadable.
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The hell are you talking about? It's the perfect secret code to keep anything hidden from younger generations. It's like how manual transmission is the best car security system there is.
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I do use cursive at work, but only to read wicked old documents. And lemme tell you 1800s court document cursive is not the same as what I was taught in school. Similar, but there are places it will trip you up.
Funny enough, there was an op-ed from a professor lamenting the fact that younger generations can't read cursives. He worried that the current generation will become future historians who may not be able to read them.
Might as well lament not being able to write and read cuneiforms or oghams by the masses is what I thought to myself. If cursive writing becomes obsolete and relic of history, so be it. Historians specialise reading ancient texts so the same expectations should be applied to future historians to specialise reading cursives, if they are so interested.
That's somehow puzzling given that even if I know the cursive of my generation (which, even then differed by country, region, and even school), the cursive of the past is pretty much different from it.
My knowledge of cursive doesn't guarantee being able to read a Spanish church document, written in cursive, from the 1700's. Historians and related professionals train on how to read these kinds of cursive as needed.
Right, it's not like someone who becomes a historian can't easily learn how to read cursive. It's not exactly rocket science.
I'm older gen z, we learned cursive in the first few years of school but then it was unceremoniously dropped from the curriculum. So I can write really shitty cursive but not read it unless it's very neat and "standard" style.
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Signing mortgages....so ueah, absolutely nothing.
Do you actually think it matters what is written? All they want is proof that you signed, draw a penis for all they care.
I have a friend who literally does draw a penis on everything she signs. As far as I know, nobody cares enough to challenge her about it.
I asked a customer when I worked retail about his stick figure surfing a wave signature once, not as a challenge or anything, and he showed me that it was the same on his driver's license. As long as you can see that you did it and not someone trying to forge it, it doesn't matter.
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I believe the youngest an Xer can be is lower forties. He sorta looks younger than that.
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