I tried to write some cursive over the weekend and oh boy it was bad. The only thing I can do is my signature and it is so darned sloppy as to be unreadable & it looks like a doctors scrawl.
I occasionally get an old deed where everything is in a very fancy cursive and I greatly admire it but I imagine it is a lost skill.
Much like my ability to speak Italian it too is almost a lost skill and since my grandparents are long gone I have no one to speak it to.
So how about you...can you still cursive write?
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As well as I ever could.?ÿ Which was never better than passable.
Yes, but I must slow down to keep it from becoming a scrawl once the ink cools off. ?ÿWriting many checks and keeping notes as Secretary of a couple organizations has helped quite a bit. ?ÿSometimes it is a week or more before I type the formal minutes so I must be able to read my own handwriting.
I was never "good" despite the many hours of primary school class time, and the copious pages of homework.
The last few decades I hardly write for others by hand at all, and then I usually print it out, just like field notes.
Actually, very little goes on paper these days... just what comes out of the printer. It is a lost art.
Cursive writing is becoming an unreadable code for the younger generations.
I once had great skill with several styles of writing and others styles I could look at the letters and print as I went.
Learned to type early in High School and until the onset of the personal computer did not find much use and after that keyboard attachment is now common place and my writing skills have gone down at a steady rate.
As I put it, I don't have time to write longhand or print anymore because I can put it out so much faster with a keyboard.
That too is suffering with the onset of arthritis and such.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cursive+writing+in+schools&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1
The schools in my area don't even teach cursive anymore.?ÿ My 16 - 18 yr kids can't read or write cursive.?ÿ But they sure can text fast!
I just asked my wife, she was taught cursive, printing was discouraged. (Mexico, 50's and 60's)
Her kids were taught cursive also, but all of the grand kids Print only. Block print, no lower case. ... excepting the few grandkids that are in private schools, they are still taught cursive. Those in university have reverted to printing.
Yes, the youngsters can text like fire!
Today's youth cannot even sign their names.?ÿ Like your wife said PRINT BLOCK
My 8 year old friend has to practice cursive, although the accepted form is printing, and I think it was pointed out in another thread that cursive is meant to be faster as the pen never leaves the paper. But it sure is painfully slow watching her grind those curves out, then rub them out because the w looks like a u and they all look like n's. I lamented that she'd be better off being taught to type, not that she'll ever use a typewriter, but a keyboard oh yes.
I was taught cursive in grade school. Honestly don't remember much of it now. Last time I tried to read a deed written in cursive, I found it quite difficult due to lack of practice.
In high school, my mother insisted I take typing classes. For the life of me, I could not imagine why or when I'd need that skill. Well, lo and behold, here I am using that skill every single day, both at home and at work. And yes, I did get to thanking my mother (6 months ago or so) for making me learn this.
I used small cursive letters for variables when I wrote equations on the board. Always had complaints, but when students saw how bad my printing is, they asked for cursive. I imagine that future history students will study cursive in graduate school.
After my 6th grade teacher accused me of learning to write from my pet chicken, I have always hated to write cursive. I appreciate thoses who write it well, but just give me a keyboard if you wish to read it. BTW where is spell check today? kldlkjlkjsjlk?ÿ
What spelchek?
I dropped an English course one time.?ÿ I had two full years of drafting in high school, a drafting course in college and numerous surveying course where I was "encouraged" to letter all work.?ÿ The first three papers I turned in to the teacher came back without a mark on them except "F".?ÿ When I asked why, the teacher said, "You do not show enough differentiation between upper case and lower case letter."?ÿ I was gone that day.?ÿ
Andy
I dropped an English course one time.?ÿ I had two full years of drafting in high school, a drafting course in college and numerous surveying course where I was "encouraged" to letter all work.?ÿ The first three papers I turned in to the teacher came back without a mark on them except "F".?ÿ When I asked why, the teacher said, "You do not show enough differentiation between upper case and lower case letter."?ÿ I was gone that day.?ÿ
Andy
I would have replied with this:
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I had a choice of a foreign language or typing in 8th grade...my mother strongly recommended typing so I took it. This was in 1983. Very useful over the years. I was able to make up the foreign language course by taking Spanish 4 and 5 as independent study as a senior.?ÿ
I suppose I could still write cursive but capitals/upper case are normally closer to the print version. I never found that cursive is faster. Note-taking in school was always print, but maybe that's partially because I'm a southpaw.
I've got one right-handed kid and one left-handed kid. As kindergartners, they both have some funny (strange) ways to make letters. I have to remind myself to stick to trying to make the letters readable not worry about how they're writing them.
I don't practice cursive so it is unbearable. Unlike my wife and daughter who have very nice hand writing skills. I remember when heir apparent was in sorority she practiced and practiced for some reason and would send pages and pages home. I shall offer a pop quiz tonight. Lets call it the Cursive Olympics.?ÿ
I can still write some cursive but I have to concentrate on it.
Good to hear from you Eric.
