I get how my generation is distressed by this fact but cursive (like Latin) is no longer needed except for those who plan on studying history or archeology. The only time (anyone who knows cursive) actually uses it is to sign their name or write a personal note to someone. All official documents are typed, texted, or word processed these days. No one ever turns in a hand written document anymore.
My penmanship has always been terrible, I never liked writing in cursive, and even my hand-printing is only marginally legible. I was massively grateful that the widespread use of word processing made it all largely unnecessary. I guess I was just ahead of my time.
True story here. I was with my mom at my grandmothers house and I spelled out the “S” word on my building/spelling blocks. I was immediately escorted to the bathroom by my mom and had my mouth washed out with soap.
Cursive is cool, but even after decades of being schooled with it, it can still be notoriously difficult to read. Even my own. Makes me wonder if we communicated any better using it. But then my ‘evolved’ hand print font(s) style occasionally confounds me as well. Stell enjoy handwritten signatures on documents. With a fountain pen with a worn nib.
This must be old. Today, young people can’t read anything in any print type. When they do, they still don’t understand what they’ve read. What they’ve written themselves couldn’t be more coherent. Soap? Some of these kids eat the soap voluntarily today.
dadthedawg 6 months ago
Well, I’ll be darned…..
OldsVistaCruiser 6 months ago
Is that like in that cartoon where the beavers d•amned the river?
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Superfrog 6 months ago
I think we were more truthful when we wrote with our own hand with ink on paper. A keyboard processors words like a mincer processors meat.
The dude from FL Premium Member 6 months ago
They would be charged with child abuse now!
oldpine52 6 months ago
Cursive, foiled again!
oldthang 6 months ago
I don’t get the connection.
Qiset 6 months ago
Interestingly enough, my six year old grandson has taught himself cursive. I’m not sure why.
littlejohn Premium Member 6 months ago
I like writing my name in cursive.
It’s my signature move.
littlejohn Premium Member 6 months ago
Don’t do calligraphy when you’re angry, what you write will end up being very cursive.
littlejohn Premium Member 6 months ago
What is a witch’s favorite method of writing?
Cursive.
littlejohn Premium Member 6 months ago
Modern technology has never matched the simplicity and grace of the traditional pen.
In fact, there is still no e-quill.
preacherman 6 months ago
You lost me there, man. What in the world does using fowl language have to do with cursive writing?
Man of the Woods 6 months ago
Kids will be signing their names with an X.
DavidErman 6 months ago
I found out that young people (people born in the 1990s) didn’t know cursive when I signed my name at work.
[Traveler] Premium Member 6 months ago
My 12yr old grandson wore a T-shirt with cursive writing on it and he had to ask me what it said
timinwsac Premium Member 6 months ago
Well /#*&@%!!!
Saddenedby Premium Member 6 months ago
loon is like many of my friends now – either don’t hear – and assume they did – or have wrong definitions for words they think they know. js
Marcia Gibson Premium Member 6 months ago
I don’t know, have you heard what comes out of the mouths of our younger population? It’s definitely cursive!
currysteph Premium Member 6 months ago
I get how my generation is distressed by this fact but cursive (like Latin) is no longer needed except for those who plan on studying history or archeology. The only time (anyone who knows cursive) actually uses it is to sign their name or write a personal note to someone. All official documents are typed, texted, or word processed these days. No one ever turns in a hand written document anymore.
Punrose 6 months ago
My son used to call it “curse up” writing. LOL.
kjnrun 6 months ago
My grown kids handwriting is atrocious
Teto85 Premium Member 6 months ago
Some school districts in California are bringing it back.
poppacapsmokeblower 6 months ago
If cartoonists wrote in cursive would kids learn cursive?
The Brooklyn Accent 6 months ago
My penmanship has always been terrible, I never liked writing in cursive, and even my hand-printing is only marginally legible. I was massively grateful that the widespread use of word processing made it all largely unnecessary. I guess I was just ahead of my time.
rshive 6 months ago
Took me a while to figure out. But (as Loon points out) kids who speak cursive get their mouths washed out with soap.
sarah413 Premium Member 6 months ago
True story here. I was with my mom at my grandmothers house and I spelled out the “S” word on my building/spelling blocks. I was immediately escorted to the bathroom by my mom and had my mouth washed out with soap.
Buckeye67 6 months ago
As usual Loon adds an interesting comment to the discussion.
goboboyd 6 months ago
Cursive is cool, but even after decades of being schooled with it, it can still be notoriously difficult to read. Even my own. Makes me wonder if we communicated any better using it. But then my ‘evolved’ hand print font(s) style occasionally confounds me as well. Stell enjoy handwritten signatures on documents. With a fountain pen with a worn nib.
ArcticFox Premium Member 6 months ago
And dentists make a fortune.
Drgnslr Premium Member 6 months ago
My iPad recognizes cursive better than printing with my apple pen. Maybe that’s a solution.
EnlilEnkiEa 6 months ago
This must be old. Today, young people can’t read anything in any print type. When they do, they still don’t understand what they’ve read. What they’ve written themselves couldn’t be more coherent. Soap? Some of these kids eat the soap voluntarily today.
vacman 6 months ago
One has to wonder what it would be like to live in Loon’s mnd.
tee929 6 months ago
Great Dad Joke of the week!
wildlandwaters 6 months ago
A friend of mine wrote a letter to her grandson in cursive…she had to read it to him…no joke!
JPuzzleWhiz 6 months ago
There are quite a few potty mouths who are experts on being “cursive”…! d;o)