I had a tech (4 year degree) ask me to 'translate' notes for him. Scary...
Interesting timing for this post- I've been practicing my cursive writing skills the past couple of days since I got a decent fountain pen.
It definitely helps to study cursive writing from prior eras (along with the dialects), especially when dealing with GLO notes, deeds, etc.
I can't write in cursive anymore, not legibly at least, but I most definitely can read it. Crucial for deciphering old deeds around here (not many field notes around).
Robert
I have seen this too many times recently. "I can't read it, it's is in cursive!!
Many younger people can only read typed text and nothing else.
Digital overload I think
I think someone posted here once that a County Clerk could not read a description written is cursive...
Here is some god dxxned @#$%ing bull @#$% cursive wrting from a land surveyor for ya.
Well...
Unfortunately cursive does not fit into the modern day computer age and that is not changing anytime soon. It has left basic English learning and is now part of the arts and history category. Even bank checks are disappearing.
It do think it looks good and a birthday/holiday card though. There is probably an "app" for that now. If not I should make one.
See attached - ironically, the board wouldn't accept it as is.
Brad Ott, post: 368796, member: 197 wrote: Here is some god dxxned ******* bull **** cursive wrting from a land surveyor for ya.
I just reported myself.
Feel free to delete this. I thought I was being funny. Turns out I was just rude. I apologize. Must be something in the air today.
As a math teacher, I wrote all lower case variable names in cursive, less chance of mistaking an a for a 9, for example. Always a problem for some students, but most adapted readily.
Years ago, cursive was eliminated from the elementary curriculum. Keyboarding was taught in seventh grade under the assumption that no future person would ever scribble a note. Then budget cuts eliminated keyboarding and we created students who could neither write nor type.
Now NC mandates cursive in elementary school. I'm not sure about keyboarding, but perhaps that wiil be done by thumbs only in the future, so we won't need to teach it.
Brad Ott, post: 368829, member: 197 wrote: I just reported myself.
Feel free to delete this. I thought I was being funny. Turns out I was just rude. I apologize. Must be something in the air today.
WAIT for a second I thought it was the 20th!
I've hated cursive writing since I first learned it. I wish the deed writers from the 1800's hadn't known cursive. If they'd hand printed everything, it'd be so much easier to read the old deeds today.
I'm less annoyed at someone today who hasn't learned cursive than I am at some of these idiots from years ago, who wrote these fancy yet somewhat illegible documents that need to be relied upon forever.
JPH, post: 368862, member: 6636 wrote: I wish the deed writers from the 1800's hadn't known cursive.
We have to appreciate that there were no photo copiers or office printers back then. If you needed a copy of something it had to be transcribed by hand. A while back I was in the county surveyors office reviewing some old road establishment procedings from 1880ish. Some poor sap had laboriously made dozens of handwritten copies of the centerline description - one for every land owner along the route. Must have taken days and been mind numbingly boring. Lettering all that would have made it doubly so.
JPH, post: 368862, member: 6636 wrote: somewhat illegible documents
(West) Virginia about 1836. I actually have read 99% of this court document, but it was a struggle. Somewhere around here I have one that is worse.
