re: Do you still use cursive writing?

I rarely write at all anymore. If I’m taking notes in a meeting I use my tablet with keyboard since I can type faster than i can write.

Cursive is so silly IMO

Everything other than signatures should be in print. It’s 2024 not 1842

Cursive is very unprofessional and outdated.

I can only write in cursive. When I attempt standard it looks like a retarded grade schooler’s hand writing. I’m also incapable of scaling up my writing. I only have one size, and it’s small…:wink:

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There are younger people today that cannot read it. To them, their written history, should they choose to confront it, in the form of old letters, diaries, bank records, land descriptions and much else might just as well be written in symbols from four millennia ago in the Fertile Crescent.

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A couple of years back, an old friend from college came by my office to go to lunch. He brought his young teenage son who was out of school for the summer. They came up to my office and the kid was wandering around looking at pictures and stuff behind my desk as we were preparing to leave. I had to write out a check (talk about old school) to pay rent to the landlord since we would be driving by his office and I was going to drop it off. As I was writing the check out, one of the times I always use cursive, the kid watched and exclaims "WHOA! That's like the Constitution and shite. So cool!" I was confused until his dad explained that they don't teach it anymore. I had no idea.

and "due"? wtf

I don't use it often. Sometimes I do it just for shits

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Cursive is outdated and shouldn’t be taught anymore. It’s not necessary at all.

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Cursive is mainly used to transcribe or take notes in, and to create a signature.

A few years back I met one of these millennials that was never taught to write in cursive. It would take him forever to take down instructions as he would write in print on his notebook.

a lot of business takes place in cursive

No, but I want my children to learn the same torturous things I learned in elementary school- cursive, diagraming sentences and long division on graph paper.