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re: Cursive- a lost form?
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:11 am to Antonio Moss
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:11 am to Antonio Moss
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imagine you aren't a second grader. There is no need for cursive in the digital age.
Thank you for your opinion but I disagree.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:13 am to hawkster
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How long did it take you to learn cursive? I think it was about a one hour class for half of second grade for the school I went to. Not exactly a huge waste of time to learn a skill that provides you with the key to correspondence with countless people who still use it.
It may have taken only six months to learn but I remember receiving a worthless "handwriting" grade all the way through eighth grade.
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And since we're at it, should we quit wasting time with math? Why learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, when gadgets in your pocket or on you wrist can do it for you error-free?
Not even close to comparable. We aren't talking about a machine that does cursive for us. We are talking about an expression of writing, not writing itself. It's more akin to saying that students should learn how to work math problem on touchscreen tablets instead of looseleaf.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:13 am to CoCo311
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I have absolutely terrible handwriting, made worse by the fact that I'll lapse in and out of cursive and print, even in the same word.
I used to do that. My kids found some of my old graduate school notes, and lines would be half cursive, half printed. They found it funny. I guess it depended on how fast the teacher was talking.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:16 am to Antonio Moss
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Forgeries are hardly ever prosecuted based on writing samples.
Something tells me you're not a lawyer
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Plus, smart people have all important documents notarized to prevent accusations of forgery.
Something also tells me you are not intelligent enough to call other people dub..
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:17 am to SSpaniel
My handwriting is almost creepy. I've always wanted to have it analyzed. I'll even write print letters differently. Especially an uppercase A. <----sometimes written like this, sometimes more of a hump, and then sometimes cursive.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:19 am to hawkster
Fun fact: knowing how to write in cursive has nothing to do with poor grammar skills.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:20 am to hawkster
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And since we're at it, should we quit wasting time with math?
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:20 am to CoCo311
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I have absolutely terrible handwriting, made worse by the fact that I'll lapse in and out of cursive and print,
Another great reason for cursive to die. It's extremely difficult to read.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:22 am to CoCo311
Same here. My penmanship has been bipolar as long as I can remember. My grade school journals would rotate from script to print page by page. Now it's a warped script/cursive crossbreed that's barely legible. My mom has the most beautiful script handwriting though, always been jelly of that.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:22 am to MSG
I havent written anything in cursive other than my name in at least 15 years. I'm 31.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:23 am to Antonio Moss
I agree that it's probably pointless to teach. That time could def be spent better elsewhere. That doesn't mean parents can't teach their kids. God forbid parents actually teach their kids something. I know that's a completely novel idea.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:24 am to VermilionTiger
Good. Its a waste of time
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:24 am to MSG
I quite writing in cursive once I got to college. I could no longer read my notes.
If you ever take the GRE, they make you copy in cursive the academic integrity policy. Lord, that was almost more difficult than the actual exam.
If you ever take the GRE, they make you copy in cursive the academic integrity policy. Lord, that was almost more difficult than the actual exam.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:24 am to elprez00
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I havent written anything in cursive other than my name in at least 25+ years. I'm 43.
I can still do it if I had a gun to my head, but it looks just as stupid as it did when I was being made to do it back in 5th grade.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:24 am to Darth_Vader
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I learned to write both ways as a kid
So did I. I wrote in cursive for many years.
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can just as easily write one way or the other depending on the situation
stopped writing in cursive when I found I could print faster, and more legibly.
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not that difficult as some are making it out to be
when it is a skill you have not used in decades, it can be difficult.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:25 am to Sampson
My mother has beautiful handwriting too. And she's a lefty, who they tried to force to be a righty.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:26 am to Phil A Sheo
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Something tells me you're not a lawyer
I am. And I handled insurance fraud cases for a few years. Writing sample "experts" lack a lot of credibility and are hard to build a case with. Most fraud is exposed through either eyewitness accounts or patterns of behavior. The two signature fraud cases I won were due to patterns of behavior.
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Something also tells me you are not intelligent enough to call other people dub..
Smart enough to know cursive is a dying practice.
This post was edited on 1/13/14 at 9:28 am
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:27 am to Salmon
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Good. Too much time and effort wasted on something that the kids will not use once they enter Jr. High. It's pointless.
I concur
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:28 am to CoCo311
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That doesn't mean parents can't teach their kids. God forbid parents actually teach their kids something. I know that's a completely novel idea.
I don't think anyone here has argued that parents should be forbidden from teaching their kids cursive.
Posted on 1/13/14 at 9:28 am to GeauxTigerTM
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I can still do it if I had a gun to my head
Me too, but its slow as hell. I have my nice print, and my chickenscratch note print I learned in college. I just never used cursive once I got into high school, and none of my teachers made me.
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