Cursive writing & Land Surveyors
Maybe teach kids to read it, not necessarily to write it.
My left hand hurts just thinking about trying to write that way
Very interesting discussion. As of this writing in 2024, cursive handwriting transcription of legal, historical and archival documents written in English and in foreign languages continues to be of great interest to land surveyors; archivists; genealogists; paleographers; historians; cursive handwriting transcribers and translators; title companies and law firms that practice environmental, land use, real estate development, conservation, energy, infrastructure, and tribal law. In fact, Spanish to English certified translation of historical Spanish Colonial Records handwritten in cursive has played an important role in protecting a Mescalero Apache site in Texas.
Many decades ago one of the girls in 4th grade easily won the prize for best penmanship. I doubt she is still alive but I'll just use her initials. WG was also the only one to fail 4th grade. We assumed she spent so much time on flawless writing that she didn't have enough time left to complete the exams. That lesson was not lost on the rest of us.
Because of our old age my wife and I now have handwriting that is at best a tiny scrawl. Just the way it is.
