[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Do you write in cursive? (Page 1 of 5)
Posted: 6/3/2010 6:11:01 PM EDT
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I got a letter today from an older (much older) gentleman that was written in cursive. It occurred to me that it's been a while since I've seen cursive writing, and I read recently that some schools are going to stop teaching it. I never write in cursive; my handwriting is bad enough as it is, and I can write faster in print. Do a lot of younger people still use it, or is it going to die in a generation or so? |
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IBTP Yes I do! BTW: They don't even teach it in schools anymore!  Yes they do in some places. But thank God not many. I learned in 1st grade and used it until 5th grade when my teacher told me he hates it and can never read it since most people have horrible hand writing. In HS all of my teachers said not to use it, one even said she'd give a zero to assignments written in cursive. I think some people can make cursive look nice and pretty like my grandmother did... but I could never read it. |
No-ish. My normal handwriting isn't cursive proper, but it does link up from time to time, if it's the easiest way for me to draw a combination of letters (the 'th' combination always links up). It's a mish-mash, but pretty illegible anyway, still working on changing that. It's all these devil-machines that did it 
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Not since...Junior High, maybe? It's a bit obsolete, to really be a requirement anymore. In my opinion, they should replace it with a typing class. THAT is a mandatory skill, in 2010. I tried to learn typing in High School. It wasn't until I got into Messenger, Trillian, and now Skype that I became a really proficient (by my standards ) typist.
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Quoted: Quoted: Not since...Junior High, maybe? It's a bit obsolete, to really be a requirement anymore. In my opinion, they should replace it with a typing class. THAT is a mandatory skill, in 2010. I tried to learn typing in High School. It wasn't until I got into Messenger, Trillian, and now Skype that I became a really proficient (by my standards ) typist.I started learning cursive in the third grade. My daughter will be in third grade next year, and I think I'm going to teach her to type. I really think one should be replaced with the other, at the same age. |
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I'm 22, and I don't use cursive, but I connect a lot of my letters anyway. Woman? I'm just guessing, based on the writing sample. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I'm 22, and I don't use cursive, but I connect a lot of my letters anyway. Woman? I'm just guessing, based on the writing sample. Nope.  |
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I write in cursive. I also use fountain pens. I suppose I am a throwback. Under 40 here. This^. I'm well over 40, though. I even use a fountain pen at work. Have a Parker 51? Nice pens. Mine is smooth, but I don't like the old squeeze fillers. My current favorite is a Sailor Sapporo in Extra-Fine. The Japanese are masters at making super fine nibs that are not scratchy. I am using Noodler's Bulletproof black as my main ink; Waterproof, UV-proof, non-acidic, and bleach, acetone, brake fluid...nothing gets it off paper once it is on without destroying the paper entirely. Good stuff. |
| I enlisted in the Army right out of High School in October of 1972. Everything was to be printed, almost the first thing said when forms and paperwork needed to be completed was "print all entries". After four years of printing, the only thing I write in cursive is my signature and dollar amounts on checks. |
| cursive is what we learn in school in Germany. So I only write cursive and always have. When I came to the US I noticed that most if not all people write in print. I guess it is easier for me to write in cursive than print but I guess it must be the other way around for people that learned print. |
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I'm 25. I've been a service technician who regularly writes up PM/repair forms since I was 20. As a result I've been printing with all capital letters for the last four or five years. That and my signature is now completely unreadable.
If I try to write in cursive now it is considerably slower than printing for me. |
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I am 36, not only do I write in cursive, but I use black ink unless I am doing something that requires a different color (did you know that many banks prefer you endorse checks in blue or red these days?). I can also tie my own shoes, recite the alphabet, can identify vowels and consonants, can put on a button down shirt by myself, and on good days manage to spell my own name without assistance.
Can't everybody? I know that the schools have given up teaching mathematics, grammar, all types of science, art and history at least in any meaningful way. Now it seems they don't even bother teaching basic handwriting. Useful vocational programs disappeared many years ago (no, an hour a day in an auto shop isn't a useful program, unless you are a teacher that needs a free oil change). What exactly are they doing at the schools? Teaching Spanish? |
