The Slow Demise of Cursive

[kybearfuzz]

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[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I wrote something similar to this months ago. There are still many reasons to use cursive writing. If I was interviewing someone and they could not write cursive, I'd rule them out for consideration from a job opening and if I was forced to hire them, I'd take their toys away. We use cursive every day. I use it for list making and to fill out welcome cards, to fill out applications and parts of the lease.There is no excuse for printing or typing everything. It has nothing to do with being a luddite. I just expect someone to write cursive.
ps... Love your handwriting!

[madknits.livejournal.com]

I went through my last degree taking all my notes in longhand in lined notebooks.

My cursive is now a mix of script and printing and calligraphic swashes. It isn't as legible or as pretty as yours. But it's my own, and I can see the roots of the cursive handwriting I learnt back when I was a kid.

[putzmeisterbear.livejournal.com]

It is very sad it isn't being used anymore. Not that I ever had very legible handwriting. But it is very sad to see it go.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I wish MY handwriting was that neat!

As it is now, I'm the only one who can read my printing, and not even I can read my handwriting!

Thank God for typing!

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

See, but you have gorgeous (gorgeous!) penmanship. For those of us who never got good grades in handwriting, the keyboard is a welcome escape from hand-cramps and borderline legibility...

(And yes, that's pure envy speaking...)

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

ditto!

I've left handed. The nuns tried to force it out of me but the failed. My handwriting is terrible. Much to my Mother's chagrin-she has impeccable cursive.

I print most things.

You have gorgeous handwriting.

[sunbeam-bears.livejournal.com]

We are loving this.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

The only time I tend to print things out is usually on applications where I have to make sure that things are spelled correctly. My handwriting is usually very legible, but at a party a few weeks back someone had trouble reading a certain word I wrote for a board game we were playing.

I am with you on the cursive. With the meeting-centric world we tend to live in, I think cursive writing is just as important as keyboarding skills. And it's quieter.

And thanks :)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think when we were taught cursive back in elementary school, it was to establish a basic backbone to work from. Over the years, each of us puts a specific personal style to our handwriting. My handwriting also has a few print-ish letters in it from time to time, even in the example in the post here if you look for them.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

The signs of a changing world. My nephew turned in a paper to his science teacher last year and got an A on it. I saw the paper and it was completely printed, no cursive at all, and it had NO punctuation.

I asked him how he got an A when the paper is just a endless list of words.

"Coach Sawyers said it was okay," he replied.

"Coach," I thought. So that's the reason, but I suspect this might be sadly becoming the norm.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I admit that I can type pretty fast and it does come in handy, but for daily notes and quick messages, cursive works out well for me.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Awwww... thanks! I won't lie, I've sort of prided myself on keeping my handwriting legible. Maybe, it's the artist in me.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks! :)

And left-handed? Doesn't that mean you're the devil or possessed or something?

Darn those nuns, I'm sure your hands are stronger for the ruler-smacking.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Heh... well, thanks!

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

I haven't used cursive for anything other than my signature for 15-20 years. It's gotten to the point where I've almost forgotten how to write certain letters. My signature is mostly illegible too. But then, my handwriting in cursive was always pretty terrible anyway.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think most people are only using it routinely to sign things. There is a great Zits cartoon where Jeremy is trying different signatures out to see which is the coolest to use for his checks. I loved that one :)

[divos-voids.livejournal.com]

very nice handiwork there, mark. my handwriting sux these days.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

totally agreed on this. And the cramps from writing things by hand anymore.... jenkies!!! I can't believe how difficult it is to write much by hand anymore.

tho... now I have tennis elbow from using the keyboard too much :P

[dendren.livejournal.com]

My handwriting/cursive has never been particularly nice but nowadays anything I write by hand anymore is a bizarre mix of cursive and printing, sometimes within the same word. I don't know what is with my brain but it seems I can't do a full sentence in one or the other anymore. Overall I really don't have a problem with cursive disappearing... I'm totally happy with reading things that are typed and legible (most don't have such wonderful penmanship as you do).

[jkusters]

As someone who gets compliments on his own hand writing, let me say that your's is quite beautiful. Did you ever study calligraphy? Your writing has the signs, to me, of someone who has taken the time to make art out of letters, if that makes any sense.

I also take to hand writing when I want to write something thoughtful. For some reason, the slower pace and tactileness of hand writing allows my brain to function at a different level, resulting in much more polished creativity than what comes out of my typing.

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

nice curves!

*whistles*

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

beautiful penmanship...