Do you still use cursive handwriting?

Oh I remember cursive. No I don’t use it anymore.

nope never use cursive not even on checks

I NEVER use cursive.

except for my signature

After reading this I tried writing in cursive. Yeah, even though I know what I wrote, I can’t read it!

just used it today as i wrote out my chalkboard menu. it’s a lagasse thing.

I use cursive for specific situations—when I need my handwriting to be neat, i.e. on exams (my print is foul); when I’m writing a lot, because it’s easier on my hand; and when writing stories/things for fun rather than for, say, class, partially due to the length and partially because I just think it’s prettier… And easier for me to read later!

No. I’m an architect and printing is important, so my “handwriting” is sort of a “cursive printing style”; quicker than printing but less fluid than cursive.

Nope. Not at all.

My writing is a relatively unattractive combination of printing and cursive.
They don’t even teach it in school anymore.

signature only

Because of a drafting class, now all my letters are uppercase and involve only downward strokes.

I use it as my own secret code. No one else can read it. A lot of people tell me that I should have been a doctor…

i use a combo of cursive and printing.

I never use cursive, except for my signature. Funny story though. When I took the GRE, after the test they give you a sheet of paper with this paragraph on it that basically says “I am the person who took this test and I didn’t cheat.” You are required to copy word for word this paragraph and then sign at the end. But the instructions explicitly say IN CURSIVE. There were definitely a few moments of panic as I tried to remember how to make a capital F and a lowercase j. Pretty funny.

Yes, all the time! Rats! I tried to render it in cursive but, of course, Fluther won’t let me.

Always. I’m a grad student and it’s so much easier and faster to chicken scratch in cursive.

I can’t write in anything but cursive. everything else comes out looking too ugly. I really like writing that way though, I think it looks fabulous.

My handwriting is one of my best assets. All of my letters are formed perfectly and look like this. I can also do calligraphy. People are always WOWed by my handwriting, even if it’s just quick notes I’m taking in class.

I do use cursive sometimes. I can write in about 25 different fonts, most of which I’ve created. Some are cursive, some are printing, and some are somewhat of a combination. (I usually adopt a particular font based on my mood, without even really thinking about it.)

Sorry, my handwriting is just too amazing to be modest about.

I always write in cursive in my journals. That makes then harder for others to decipher since my handwriting is so atrocious.

I use a system called the pricursinte. The name is self-explanatory.

I use a combo regularly. When I write letters, I go all cursive and try to make it as pretty as possible.

I use a combination of cursive and plain chars. Most of what I use is out of convenience…

My handwriting is all-caps print. It is too modest to be amazing about.

I use cursive all the time. Whenever I fill out anything that tells me I have to print, it takes me FOREVER because I have to really concentrate to keep it from turning into script.

Edit: This is my handwriting. The questions I was answering were:
1.) Your name and your LJ username
2.) Are you right- or left-handed?
3.) Your favorite letters to write
4.) Your least favorite letters to write
5.) Write “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
6.) Tag five people.

I do both, sometimes in the same word. The cursive I use is not the standard taught in school, though. As a bored 7th grader, I decided it wasn’t interesting enough, and some of it didn’t make any sense…(upper case S or Q, anyone?). So I devised my own way of writing, and practiced it for so long that I am now incapable of using the correct form. However, it is perfectly legible…if not always neat.

I write cursive about half the time; I notice I use it more when I’m writing quickly, or in French. I don’t think it’s super-traditional “school” cursive, but then again neither is my print handwriting.

only time I use cursive is when I sign my name. sadly enough, one night at work a discussion come up about cursive writing and it took 4 or us to complete teh alphabet in cursive. some of those letters were tricky to remember how to do the upper and lower case of each.

Mostly cursive with print caps.

I was taught to write checks in cursive so they are harder to modify. That’s the only time I actually use cursive, and it does come out pretty sloppy.

@MacBean: Your handwriting is gorgeous.

My lecture notes are a mix of cursive and “sheesh slow down, these words are flying off the page!”. I don’t necessarily do the school taught version of cursive. But it’s close enough.

i was never fond of it to begin with, i had messy cursive, and my printing wasn’t much better, but easier.

I hate cursive!!
But My signature is cursive….
When I am taking notes, I kind-of do an in-between. (Basically, lazy print because I just connect words to make it faster). That is why school encourage cursive. They say that it is much easier and the way Americans should write.