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Bye, Bye Cursive writing. Haha

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
I'm glad there are so many cursive haters. They told us it would be useful and fast too and you know when I switched I could print just as fast. Now cursive is just ghey.
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Actually I can write in cursive faster than I can print but I still always print anyway. That is when I can't type......
 
When I am taking notes in class and get lazy, I start writing crusive, it looks nice, its faster and requires less effort than printing...but sometimes I can't read it.
 
Originally posted by: illusion88
I guess I'm just different.
I dont even use cursive for my signature. I print my signature.
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You print your signature? That's just weird.

 
when I write stuff for others to read I always print it 'cause my handwriting is horrible. When I'm writing stuff for myself it's a mix of cursive and printed letters (both capital and lower case).


Lethal
 
I write way faster in cursive. I used it up until 11th grade though when I started having to read through my notes. I still occasionally shift into cursive when I am taking notes.
 
yeah i also switched to printing when i enter JHS lol...

I only use cursive writing when i sign something.
 
I've always written in cursive since around 4th grade probably. I don't think it was a neccesity in high school or in college though. It's faster than printing if you really know how to do it well.
 
Good riddens. The only thing cursive is useful for these days is signatures.

"The way you wrote something was considered part of your inner being, your core, your worth..."

Yeah. Sure. I wonder if this woman also considers the way she ties her shoes to be part of her inner being?

 
I print but have some cursive maneuvers to my letters when I take notes or write stuff down. People might think I'm a Dr. if I actually write something in cursive. When I was in grade school there were no home computers for the common folk (late 70's). We had to learn cursive because we'd need it sometime in the future.

By the time I got to middleschool computers and dot matrix printers were becoming more widespread (c64 / PC XT). By the time I got to highschool you needed to type your important papers... because... college never accepted anything research wise handwritten (Well maybe your outline). And it was true. College everything was typed.

I've been able to type faster than I can write since highschool (I learned to type in 7th grade). And most people can read my typing. 😉


 
Computers are better," the 9-year-old says, blonde pony tail bobbing behind her. "With typing, you don't have to erase when you make a mistake. You just hit delete, so it's a lot easier."

Such attitudes are worrying to a growing number of parents, educators and historians, who fear that computers are speeding the demise of a uniquely American form of expression. Handwriting experts fear that the wild popularity of e-mail, instant messages and other electronic communication, particularly among kids, could erase cursive within a few decades.
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Um, there is cursive in other languages. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. There is at least cursive in Russian: Link

Anyway, cursive is crap. Most is unreadable, and I personally can't write any faster than I can with regular letters, so I never use it.
 
Such attitudes are worrying to a growing number of parents, educators and historians, who fear that computers are speeding the demise of a uniquely American form of expression.
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Wtf? We used cursive in Trinidad...


I'm not sure I understand this whole "cursive" thing. You guys act like printing is normal and cursive is something special. Wtf? I always write notes and stuff that way, the normal way, with connected letters. Why would I print? Just to be slow?
 
Originally posted by: Gaard
Originally posted by: illusion88
I guess I'm just different.
I dont even use cursive for my signature. I print my signature.
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You print your signature? That's just weird.
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I use a combo of print and cursive for my sig. The first letter of my first and last name are printed caps and the rest of both names are cursive, sort of (it's actually just squiggly lines impossible to decipher).

 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
See ya Won't be too soon for me! I haven't had to "write" since I was in elementary and I switched from writing to printing in late junior high. Every year or two I try and see if I can still do it and I can't really.

I know very few adults who use cursive even when they do write - and most seem to prefer a computer nowadays anyway. What a waste of time it was learning it.

Of course my printing is getting uglier by the year. I'm now down to about grade 2 (or less) quality in how my printing looks but it doesn't cost me a minute of sleep. I don't understand why people fight inevitabilities which are, in fact, no even bad. This is one such case.
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I think the same thing goes for spelling. I use to spell OK, but ever since I learned spell check, its been all down hill.

 
I ALWAYS write in cursive, or what we call "handwriting" here on the west coast of canada's schools. I write way faster in handwriting than printing, it just feels more natural. I can print just fine as well, but kinda slow. Keyboard rules.
 
I wrote an essay back in high school in cursive, got it back and was told to rewrite it in print. The dumbass teacher couldn't read cursive.
 
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