With the apparent death of cursive writing, do people no longer develop a personal signature?

Apparently. And with the prevalence of spell checkers there no longer taking much care with there spelling, either.

@CWOTUS “there is no longer caring for there spelling.” Love it.

Death of cursive writing? Provide a link please.

Most of the schools here are focusing on italicized writing, and forgoing block writing.

@SpatzieLover Google “death of cursive,” and pick your own.

I still sign in cursive and have taught my 10-year-old how to sign him name in cursive as well since they haven’t taught cursive writing in school.

I still see a lot of people signing in cursive, though sometimes it’s not really legible.

I couldn’t give a fiddler’s fart how people choose to sign their own names (or there own, as you will. ^_^) but the death of cursive saddens me, in no small part due to considering the long hours in grade school spent on trying to find some way to make the majuscule alphabet look attractive in my handwriting.

You can still have a personal signature with manuscript. Apparently, some tennis player’s is characterized by block letters.

Whenever tennis players sign the camera lens it’s just a quick autograph really, no more than a rushed scribble.
Some sign those giant tennis balls for fans right after a game & they’re not even looking at what they’re doing, a crude swipe of the pen is often enough.

@ucme Federer’s was very elaborate and scripty. I suppose he’s had more practice.

The one I saw was not a quick doodle. It was almost painful to watch, he worked so hard at it. All caps, block letters.

By the way, I’m not judging people who use only block letters. It’s a natural result of people under 25 growing up using keyboards far more than handwriting. Things change. I really was just curious whether the oldy time pursuit of “developing a signature” was gone.

The only people I can think of who would ever sign something in block letters would be celebrities, just to make their autographs interesting. I write my full name in cursive when I sign, though it takes so long I can understand why most people just go for the scribble.

Oh hang on, I just remembered how we used to have to check signatures when people paid by credit card at work. I saw non-cursive signatures every now and again, but I’m certain they didn’t belong to younger customers, at least not exclusively.

As long as kids are still being taught cursive (which, as far as I know, they are) and academic exams are handwritten, I think it might be the 25+ age group which actually doesn’t use cursive anymore.

That’s because Federer is a ponce.

Maybe that guy just wanted people to be able to read his name ?
I.e. Maybe that is not his “real” signature.

@iphigeneia Younger Jellies (<25) have said that their training in cursive was desultory and they did not use it outside of class ever. Jellies older than that still think it’s wonderful, creative, develops fine motor skills, shows concentration, but really… it’s dead. We might as well be lauding the benefits of learning to drive a pony cart.

@dabler, Absolutely possible. Probably I asked the question wrong. It sounded as if I wanted opinions from people without real information. I will try again.

I still sign in cursive. However, I do not write in cursive any more. I print. I was actually trying to do cursive writing a few weeks ago because it felt like I had forgotten how to do it. It was horrible. I used to have such nice cursive writing. So I am now practicing again. I have a unique style of printing but it looks very nice and neat.

I’ve read that many schools aren’t even teaching cursive any more.

I don’t know why people would print. I’m a lazy writer and I find cursive is so much faster to write. I hate it when people want to jot something down for me and I have to stand there waiting for them to slowly print it all out. Its faster if they tell me as I jot it down in cursive.

@6rant6 I’m 19, and use of cursive was enforced all the way through my school years. Obviously there’s a huge range of what schools teach, and what students take out of it. I think most of my friends have ended up using a messy cursive/print hybrid as their regular handwriting.

What an interesting question. When the nieces and nephews send written correspondence, their signature is printed versus cursive. They are in their late 20s and early 30s and assume that they were taught to write in cursive, but this could be wrong. Even my 80 to 90=year old aunts print their name.

I still use the cursive style when signing my name to a document unless it requires initials. This includes any type of personal card.

On the other hand, fountain pens are making a comeback.

@Jeruba I remember when calculators took over, people were looking for the absolute best slide rule they could find. Nostalgia.