Cursive?

[Chad32]

Are you guys serious? Of course one should learn cursive, block letters take too fucking long to write. My own handwriting ended up being a mixture of both. (I'm a leftie) If a child has serious trouble learning it, fine, drop the subject to spare needless frustration, but otherwise? Sure!

Yeah, it's so speedy that it's commonly illegible. I'm pretty sure when people talk about "chicken scratch", they're not talking about print.

[Kingpin]

Cursive is still taught in schools, my daughters love writing in cursive. It is very artistic in nature, but I would dare say we all use it when applying our signatures (or at least some base form depending on how often you need to sign things). My older daughters are even getting in to calligraphy. They find it "pretty"

[c172]

Signatures are very cool. And yes, mostly cursive in nature, though not confined to a particular "typeset". In sentence-writing, for whatever reason, I find it cumbersome. Print all the way.

I guess at the end of the day, legibility is what needs to be first priority in that area of education. If that means cursive for some, fine.

[Minimalist]

Cursive is still taught in schools, my daughters love writing in cursive.  It is very artistic in nature, but I would dare say we all use it when applying our signatures (or at least some base form depending on how often you need to sign things).  My older daughters are even getting in to calligraphy.  They find it "pretty"

Signatures are being replaced by electronic PINs and those god-awful credit card apps that just require a squiggly line drawn with your finger.

[Longhorn]

It took me 3 pages of this thread to figure out what cursive was ._.

I write in half cursive....does that count? I was taught early in school that way but we weren't really forced to do it afterwards

[Alex K]

It took me 3 pages of this thread to figure out what cursive was ._.

I write in half cursive....does that count? I was taught early in school that way but we weren't really forced to do it afterwards

Me, too, and likewise. From fourth grade on, we could do pretty much whatever we wanted, and that is when my mixed handwriting developed