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Is There Much Value In Teaching Cursive Writing?

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Should Cursive Be Taught In School?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 56.7%

  • No

    Votes: 11 36.7%

  • Yes For A Limited Time, But Should Be Fazed Out

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Total voters
    30
Charmonium said:
IMG_5094.jpegThe first digital watches didn't come out until the early or mid 70s. I definitely liked them better because they gave you the precise time w/o having interpolate the position of the hands. 'Is that 6 or 7 or 8 minutes after; 10am. Ah, f' it. Just try to get there early.

But the first LEDs required that you push a button to display the time. Kinda annoying.
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Look, folks, some of the best documents ever, believe me, they’re written in cursive. How is the young generation going to read our incredible constitution if they can't even read cursive? It's a disaster!
 
pete6032 said:
Look, folks, some of the best documents ever, believe me, they’re written in cursive. How is the young generation going to read our incredible constitution if they can't even read cursive? It's a disaster!
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they take a picture and optical character recognition software converts it to Arial?
 
igor_kavinski said:
Can OCR even read cursive? Maybe properly trained AI based OCR can.
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OCR was ai before ai was a twinkle in the marketer's taint. pattern recognition was the one of the earliest machine learning models. bank atm's use ocr to read checks and were good enough 25 years ago, now they just seem like a cheat.
lxskllr said:
A proprietary font? I think not. It'll certainly be something like Linux Libertine.

en.wikipedia.org

Linux Libertine - Wikipedia

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any true font will have no margin for mis-interpretation.
opendyslexic.org

OpenDyslexic

OpenDyslexic is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia.
opendyslexic.org
 
On a serious note, that's kind of shit handwriting for 1900. A lot of old writing is hard to read, but has beautiful composition. That's just hard read, and you aren't even rewarded with beauty.
 
I really, really hate cursive. I think I switched to printed characters in junior high. Although, to be honest, my printing evolved into some bastardized combo of the two. For example, I tend to link certain combinations of characters but it's only because it's more fluid and therefore faster.

I probably should have tried to learn shorthand, but ehh, f* it. I'll do me, so to say. I managed to make my printing pretty much indecipherable though. I even have a tough time reading it.
 
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