What caused cursive to die?

[amish]

i'm in Indiana. my school barely taught print and from second grade on it was cursive only. now, i dumb my writing down to a print/cursive hybrid that is pretty much only legible by me.

 

[SagaLore]

Schools that teach cursive first, end up with students who can read and write much faster. Its because cursive more naturally flows, while print is very blocky and requires more stop start stop start and precision to get right.

What killed cursive? The keyboard, and now texting.

 

[RedRooster]

only with your mug shot. :sneaky:

You watch and see, in 50 years no one will have names. Our names will just be a symbol, our fingerprint.
"Good morning

! How are you?!"

 

[BurnItDwn]

Cursive should have died out when the typewriter was invented, but some jerk assholes allowed it to still exist and subjected it's grueling tortures to my generation.

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[Sluggo]

Does anyone under the age of 50 know shorthand?

 

[HeXen]

i write in nothing but cursive, its far faster to me and easier on my hands.

 

[Newbian]

I am glad for this.

It was a pain to write and worse to read it.

And if someone has bad handwriting you can still make out print while cursive is impossible to read.

Also the fact that it was more of a fancy arty type of writing then a functional form and I have a hard enough time to make a straight line.

Plus for schools stopping to teach it I am happy as it's a waste of time and money even back when I had it taught to me.

 

[Redfraggle]

Cursive is mainly useless anymore. People use it to sign their names, and that's mostly it. When I write, some letters are joined, but it's not cursive. The style I use would probably be adapted to naturally by anyone who learned only to print as well.

 

[alkemyst]

Teachers can't be bothered with anything that requires work to grade anymore.

Spelling is not even focused on.

 

[Pheran]

What are you guys talking about, I use it all the time??

"You #$@! d-bag ass@#@! Use your $#@!ing turn signal!"

What? Oh, you said cursive.

 

[Newbian]

Teachers can't be bothered with anything that requires work to grade anymore.

Spelling is not even focused on.

That's because a smart teacher would recommend a decent spell checker and a browser like firefox that has one.

 

[Perknose]

The death of cursive, the retirement of the Space Shuttle, Fox canceling Glen Beck's show . . . in so many ways, America is turning its back on The Write Stuff. :'(

 

[Farmer]

Schools that teach cursive first, end up with students who can read and write much faster. Its because cursive more naturally flows, while print is very blocky and requires more stop start stop start and precision to get right.

What killed cursive? The keyboard, and now texting.

Schools that teach print writing first, end up with students who score much higher on standardized tests and earn more in their careers. Its because printed text is much clearer and faster to read, while cursive is curvy and disorganized and requires more finger dexterity to get right.

What killed print? Th ... oh wait I'm just making shit up on the internet.

 

[Bateluer]

Schools that teach cursive first, end up with students who can read and write much faster. Its because cursive more naturally flows, while print is very blocky and requires more stop start stop start and precision to get right.

You have a link to back up that first statement?

And I once won an argument with one of my Jr High teachers over the speed of print vs cursive. Print was faster, more legible, and more precise. Cursive always ends up a horrible, sloppy mess, regardless of who wrote it, their educational background, and age.

But yes, technology has pretty much killed cursive writing. Any schools still bothering to teach it are wasting time and tax payer money.

 

[gorcorps]

Because even when it was popular it was messy and hard to read.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Because people realize to actually being able to see text easily trumps some misguided art of trolling everybody by writing text which nobody can read.

 

[LumbergTech]

I stopped writing in cursive when I started using the PC..I stopped writing in general for the most part

 

[HeXen]

my print is worse than cursive. its real bad, uneven spacing, mixmash of lower and uppercase letters, some letters end up half cursive...plus its too slow, constant stopping and raising of the pen, so inefficient.

Problem is not the cursive, its the people who just flat out can't use it properly

 

[0roo0roo]

Schools that teach cursive first, end up with students who can read and write much faster. Its because cursive more naturally flows, while print is very blocky and requires more stop start stop start and precision to get right.

What killed cursive? The keyboard, and now texting.

it never flowed for me, felt unnatural.
it certainly doesn't speed up reading, it makes that part much worse.

 

[Howard]

It's harder to make cursive legible than it is to make print legible. Also printing is usually much faster.

 

[HeXen]

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Cursive is my default writing style.

 

[Redfraggle]

it never flowed for me, felt unnatural.
it certainly doesn't speed up reading, it makes that part much worse.

Agreed. I'm a lefty, there is nothing useful, easy, or neat about a left-hander trying to learn cursive writing. Truly, it felt like a curse, and I probably wondered at some point if that was why it was called "cursive" writing.

 

[thescreensavers]

I was taught in 8th grade, I was forced to write paragraphs and papers worth of that crap. Thank god its dieing.