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		New Jersey grandmother founds "Cursive Club" to keep alive the delicate art of cursive handwriting (npr.org)		16
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yukichigai		2013-04-08 10:41:16 PM

3 votes:

Is she also the founder of the Sanskrit and Telegraph Clubs?

I can count on one hand the number of times I have ever needed to write anything in cursive that wasn't for school, church, or relatives so old they remember when Hawaii and Alaska weren't states yet. None of my employers have ever wanted things in cursive, and quite a few have actually complained about things written in cursive.

Cursive is the Buggy Whip Manufacturer of the written word. It was developed in the era of quill pens when taking the pen from the page meant more chance of breaking your quill. It's not really relevant these days.

ReapTheChaos		2013-04-08 11:50:39 PM

2 votes:

The only thing I've written in cursive since grade school is my signature, and over the years that's morphed into more of a scribble.

TV's Vinnie		2013-04-09 11:49:53 AM

1 votes:

Clemkadidlefark		2013-04-09 10:57:35 AM

1 votes:

This is why you need to learn handwriting

blog.oldversion.com

DubtodaIll		2013-04-09 08:35:50 AM

1 votes:

Why don't they teach cursive anymore? Penmanship got me a job once. Went to a job fair, filled out a bunch of applications, got call backs from each company with which I filed. Each and everyone one of them mentioned that I was one of the few that they could actually read.

Pants full of macaroni!!		2013-04-09 08:25:37 AM

1 votes:

They still manufacture "pens" and "pencils"? I thought they quit making those around when the first Blackberry came out.

GORDON		2013-04-09 08:12:39 AM

1 votes:

Such celebration of ignorance!

Cursive is still taught at my kid's public school in Ohio.

Mawson of the Antarctic		2013-04-09 07:10:08 AM

1 votes:

I like hearing this. I'm in the opposite camp, I write in cursive all the time, my printing is atrocious-can't draw a straight line. It's like how a stammerer can sing without affect. Plus, I find cursive for me is quicker than printing and I prefer it to typing as a pen facilitates layouts and drawing diagrams. I don't understand when people use a laptop to take notes. If you're just trying to use it as a dictation tool just record it.

cajunns		2013-04-09 06:59:30 AM

1 votes:

mhd: My grandparents used to write like this:
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(this is a rather legible example, it gets worse from there)

That style of cursive went out of style along with blackletter printing, so in a few years people will be hard-pressed to find someone to decipher old documents.

Any sufficiently stylized cursive is indistinguishable from cryptography.

well if it was written in English it might be legible

mhd		2013-04-09 06:54:53 AM

1 votes:

CeroX: I was going to ask if the grandparents were German... It looks rather nazi... just sayin...

As I've said, it's basically the cursive pendant to printed blackletter, which seems indelibly associated with the Nazis. Which is kinda strange, as it's been in use since the Gutenberg bible and the Nazis actually abolished it. (Allegedly because of its - non-existing - Jewish roots, but mostly because Hitler didn't like it and thought that using the Latin script makes it easier to establish a cultural hegemony)

/Can't write cursive to save my life nowadays, but maybe it *does* help develop hand-eye coordination in (other) children
//Although you might as well teach a drawing class then

wildlifer		2013-04-09 06:10:24 AM

1 votes:

Block letters for everything. My signature is a meh attempt at cursive.
/ knuckle dragger

fanbladesaresharp		2013-04-09 04:55:26 AM

1 votes:

yukichigai: Is she also the founder of the Sanskrit and Telegraph Clubs?

I can count on one hand the number of times I have ever needed to write anything in cursive that wasn't for school, church, or relatives so old they remember when Hawaii and Alaska weren't states yet. None of my employers have ever wanted things in cursive, and quite a few have actually complained about things written in cursive.

Cursive is the Buggy Whip Manufacturer of the written word. It was developed in the era of quill pens when taking the pen from the page meant more chance of breaking your quill. It's not really relevant these days.

While you are at it whipping people, have you ever written anything in another language? Like say, Japanese? They have their standards too. Cursive and "proper Engrish" taught me to have my own flair, that is, someone personal knows I didn't pick some generic cutsey font on my computer and print out xmas cards. You knew it came from me.

/learn to write, heathen.

Harry_Seldon		2013-04-09 04:52:33 AM

1 votes:

I am left handed so I learned to write in Hebrew.

Mithiwithi		2013-04-09 04:49:44 AM

1 votes:

Good for her. I did calligraphy when I was a kid, as a hobby.

Matticus		2013-04-09 12:15:12 AM

1 votes:

Although I'm not a user, I like it when people use cursive and am sad it's dying

propasaurus		2013-04-08 11:02:17 PM

1 votes:

teto85: Excellent. I prefer Vimala font myself[www.iihs.com image 723x415]

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As left-handed collector and user of fountain pens I have found this the best in both handwriting and computer printing.

Is that a lower case c and l or a lower case d? Is that a capital S or the number 8? Is that a capital U and lower case r or a lower case w and i?

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