Do you still write in cursive?
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I do. I curse faster than I print. ;-p
I just tried to paste my quip with text I copied from a cursive generator, but Fluther couldn’t display it.
Sad. I love cursive! I wish I could write it more but people my age cannot read it
Yes, I do. My penmanship is very good for a left-handed person. When I write cards, notes, or the occasional check (I recently sent 3 to pay for some business license renewals), I use cursive.
I haven’t since I got out of school.
Everyone developes their own unique writing style, building on what they learned in school.
I combine cursive and printing to write the fastest.
I have a way of writingthat i’ve used since high school. Like Dutch’s writing, mine combines printing and cursive.
My son block prints exclusively, even when signing legal documents.
Maybe once or twice a year. It’s slower (for me) than printing.
When I have to write fast my printing kind of flows into hand writing automatically. It’s pretty crappy but I can read it. When I was in 7th grade I had such beautiful hand writing skills.
When I was in the hospital last December a nurse asked me to sign some papers. I’ve always signed my.name in such a way that anyone could read it. The nurse shocked me by commenting that I have such nice hand writing. HA!
Sometimes.
When I’m feeling fancy.
It’s a combination of print and cursive.
I’ve shortened my signature to to the first letter of my first name, then scribble my last name in passible reading cursive.
Like this V B/~~/on/I$.
I drop the tail of the S down below the line.
That flourish on the S is my signature signature.
Pretty much only for my signature.
I never liked cursive much. It always seemed like a forced exercise, and I don’t think I was ever really faster in cursive than in print. My printing has almost always been very clear, and much more legible than my cursive, and I prefer how it looks, too, so I have never felt an actual reason to use it since grade school required it of us.
Knowing it has been occasionally useful for reading other people’s writing, though.
I stopped doing it even in school once it was no longer required.
Absolutely. Personal notes are always in cursive.
Yes, sometimes.
The thing is I just don’t write much at all anymore. Everything is done on the computer. It’s strange how unpracticed I am at writing these days.
I know, right @Demosthenes? If I have something to sign I practice 3 or 4 times on another piece of paper first.
What slays me is when some try to carefully sign their name on electronic pads at the store.
I write the letter of my first name, V, then the B of my last name and just draw line after that.
Once I made a happy face. It was accepted. :D.
The clerk said something tho…she was older than me and she laughed and called me a stinker!
My mom’s generation always wrote in a beautiful flowing cursive. I found it interesting how there seemed to be almost NO variation in the script in that generation.
Combo here but I do like the cursive for appearances. Elegant.
Especially my Mom’s and generation.
@Dutchess They were al ltaught by the Palmer method. I think I had it too in grade school. You had to copy a page of “Ps”, etc.
My signature is still a ll cursive.
I have to look it up.
Mom showed me some excercises she was taught, like drawing endles, graceful circles on papers.
I never had to do that, but I had to copy pages of letters too, when I was taught cursive. It had be done in a specific way, with the correct loops and whirls and stuff.
I think part of the difference was that there was no allowance for diversity or self expression, especially for women, in those days. You do everything THIS way and this way only.
Men, not so much. My Dad’s hand writing was nothing like that!
I just found it interesting that in letters from women to my mother, the writings were identicle.
I think the women’s liberation influenced us, and encouraged us to be ourselves and to break away from those strict expectations.
I do, I forget some people can’t read it.
I’ve never known anyone who can’t read cursive
^^ They say that many kids today can’t read it because they’ve never learned it.
I struggle sometimes, if it is like a really fancy cursive. Or obviously if it is sloppy.
@Dutchess_III No, not just a rumor. I read a post that a historical archive was looking for candidates because they were having trouble finding young people who could read the documents in cursive. That doesn’t mean all young people but it seems to mean there are some.
There are some who flat out can’t read at all!
Teaching cursive is a waste of time.
^^ Actually not an issue I have a strong opinion on one way or another.
As a teacher I feel strongly about it. We have to teach the kids so much more than we had to learn. Why waste time drawing fancy circles?
I do find it odd how passionate people are on this topic. Nobody uses it anymore so why do we need to waste time teaching it?
I am not sure they teach how to write checks anymore, but that I do disagree with. I felt so stupid when I had to process a check at my job and had no clue what the routing number was. Guest thought I was stupid. Thank goodness we stopped accepting them.
The schools didn’t teaching me how to write checks! My folks did.
One time Rick came down stairs with his check book in hand, and said “Where are the routing numbers?”
Without even looking up or pausing my typing I said “Bottom left, where it say 923709956.”
I snuk a peek at him. He was looking at the check numbers, with his mouth open.
Then he looked at me and turned on his heel and walked out. I just laughed! I physically paid the bills and had keyed in the routing numbers a million times!
Rarely any more, unless I am writing a check. And even that is getting rusty because I rarely write checks anymore.
I rarely write anything any more! I have to practice a bit before I do.
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