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Bye, Bye Cursive writing. Haha

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"With typing, you don't have to erase when you make a mistake. You just hit delete, so it's a lot easier."
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She's dumb, EVERYONE knows you hit Backspace, NOT delete to remove your previous keystroke.
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I too write much faster using cursive. So I use it for notes and such in meetings when I don't have my laptop. I also use cursive when writing checks. Actually, as others have said, I tend to write in a hybrid of print and cursive. I often print capital letters and write everything else in cursive.

ahh, the continual dumbing of America...
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cursive is great for taking notes in class. It is particularly useful for science classes that have some text and some equations since formatting equations is a huge pain in the ass on a computer.
 
i print eaisily 100x faster then cursiave. whoever said it was slow is full of crap.

i use caps and lowerrcase simutaniously. ill cap a letter in the middle of a word just because its faster to write that way. i havent "written" an assignment sence 10th grade. my handwriteing is so messy you cant read it even if i print. i can read it just fine. but noone else can. i always got extra days on assignments to type them. in college you dont write anything other then your name. id liek to go kick my 3rd and 4th grade teachers in teh face and laugh at them. cause i was right
 
I never realized that that many people had problems writing in script. I write mostly in script unless it's on a form or a envelope. Now that I think about it, most of the people I know write in print. (Most of them with poor penmanship.) I guess this is going down the same path as calligraphy. It's a shame IMO.
 
If you are truly concerned with speed, why argue cursive vs. print when you can just use Gregg or some other shorthand method? This isn't the dumbing down of America, it's the march of progress away from an antiquated practice that we only force on our children because our parents forced it on us. They forced us to write in cursive but then they bitched at me when they couldn't read my cursive. Well let me freaking print it, then! The computer was the best thing that happened to me when it came to schoolwork. I could type much faster than I could write, and no one could ever claim they couldn't read it.

As for the "artiness" of script, the way I write is still a distinct style that is all mine, so I don't see what the difference is other than the fact that you MIGHT be able to read my block letters, where you probably won't be able to read my script.

We're worried about forcing cursive on our children when we could better spend that time teaching them a whole other language! I would gladly trade my ability to write in cursive in exchange for being fluent in another spoken language.
 
The computer was the best thing that happened to me when it came to schoolwork. I could type much faster than I could write, and no one could ever claim they couldn't read it.
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The problem is that pretty soon no one will be able to read one another's handwriting (or write at all for that matter). Nor will people be able to spell. I love computers as much as anyone, but I will freely admit that they have caused a decline in both my writing and spelling abilities. I now tend to type phonetically since I know the spell checker will catch most errors. But, hell, even spell checkers fail to catch certain types of errors. Look how many people don't know how to properly use the words "loose" and "lose" these days.
 
Originally posted by: Spac3d
When I had to take the SAT, it said I had to write a sentence in cursive. Everyone was very :|
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when i took the SATs, i just printed out the darned thing since i havent used cursive since i was taught it in the 2nd grade. lol -> yes i went against what it required of you. lol
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
they told us back in elem school that in high school we would be required to write in cursive all the time.

what a crock of sh!t that was.
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Haha, yup.

This article proves a good point though. Replace or add-in keyboarding as a way of writing that should be required in our growing world. Learning to type at an early age is a good idea. I was so bored in a study hall earlier this year that I challenged myself to see if I remembered how to write all the letters in the alphabet in cursive.
 
Man I remember in 6-8th grade all I would wright in would be cursive then in freshman year I wrote in a mix or print and cursive inorder to save time but by now I just cant write cursive if my life depended on it.
 
cursive is the suXor, I havent written like that since elementary school, then again because I can neither read nor write, I have no idea what I'm typing right now
 
I laughed at this bad spelling stuff...

right...
wright...

How about write.


And, I would have much preferred a keyboarding class in third grade instead of cursive. I never learned cursive enough to be able to write it faster than printing. And, teachers couldn't read it no matter which way I wrote it.


*edit* Link for those who don't know what cursive is.
*edit* actually, I guess that is italic....kinda like cursive though
 
All of you whining about being able to print faster than writing in cursive obviously don't know how to write in cursive in the first place. It IS faster just from the simple fact that each letter and group of letters take fewer movements to write than print.
 
Cursive writing is basically a style of handwriting where you join the strokes of successive characters per word together.

I would have liked to show you an example, but this forum doesn't agree. Basically, it's joining of letters, so they appear italic. How it turns out (i.e., how legible or nice it is) is different depending upon the individual. Doctors for instance tend to have cursive writing, but they aren't really legible.

Re. original post: I wish I had cursive writing. My handwriting really sucks. I would prefer cursive over my handwriting. I couldn't even have the nice handwriting of many students.
 
Originally posted by: luvly
Cursive writing is basically a style of handwriting where you join the strokes of successive characters per word together.

I would have liked to show you an example, but this forum doesn't agree. Basically, it's joining of letters, so they appear italic. How it turns out (i.e., how legible or nice it is) is different depending upon the individual. Doctors for instance tend to have cursive writing, but they aren't really legible.

Re. original post: I wish I had cursive writing. My handwriting really sucks. I would prefer cursive over my handwriting. I couldn't even have the nice handwriting of many students.
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So you have handwriting like a man? :Q I knew it! You're a sweaty old man posing as a slim model type from California! Everyone take the advice in my sig! 😀
 
Hey im from trinidad too...small world!

on topic, i try the ole mix cursive with print technique to write faster, it kinda works i think
 
I type all my essays anyways, so the speed of cursive isn't a big deal to me. Everyone I know prints. It's simply much easier to read. Anything that I do write out is short enough so that the difference between cursive and printing is a matter of seconds, negligable IMO. And besides, if I were going to write a long essay, I'd spend most of my time thinking and not writing, so it doesn't matter which way I write anyways. Cursive was just another waste of time, just like 95% of elementary/middle/high school. More math and English, less bs like handwriting, art, music, etc.
 
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