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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I switched schools for high school after being in a British private school since the first grade. I was shocked at seeing anyone write in block print for the first time. Up until then I genuinely thought that cursive was the only way to hand-write and that block was reserved for little kids just learning to write.

EDIT: That school even had a calligraphy class that taught us how to write with a fountain pen. I have no idea what world they were preparing us for.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kinda makes me wonder why he didn't write that sign in cursive. Kind of a missed oppertunity to accually use it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But then no one would be able to tell what it says

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

fair, but it would look nice i guess

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Signing forms is kind of a requirement in most cases. Though I K kw a lot of Der peoe just do some sort of squiggle that looks nothing like cursive or letters.

Edit: Just looking at what I typed and by shit, what the fuck. Proofread your posts, kids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My signature is just print but sloppier

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Imagine not using the faster, cooler way of writing

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I don't have to imagine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I don't remember the last time I hat to write something on paper except for signatures

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Is it speaking into your phone? Thats what I see the youngins do

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I guess it's a good thing he wrote it in print. Nobody would've been able to read it otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I learned cursive to pro actively fuck with the people that didn't

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I have lovely cursive handwriting and I'm proud of it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My handwriting is anal sauce but at least at one point I wasn't terrible at calligraphy. Those two things are not related skills at all.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (6 children)

Gen x? No, millennials ~~were the last Gen to learn cursive~~ learned cursive too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Gen Z here, learned cursive in elementary

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't think one has to be the last to learn a thing in order to be able to realize how pointless learning it was.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I beat the system. I've made it halfway through life only knowing how to sign my name in cursive. It has been a glorious victory.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The hell are you talking about? It's the perfect secret code to keep anything hidden from younger generations. It's like how manual transmission is the best car security system there is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hah! I treat that as a nice side-effect. The primary reason I use cursive in my daily notes (nothing that I'd need another person to be able to read) is convenience and speed.

I do have a decent-looking print handwriting and I use that if shit needs to be legible to anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would include millennials also. This guy also looks more millennial age then genx.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I don't care about efficiency it looks cool

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I do use cursive at work, but only to read wicked old documents. And lemme tell you 1800s court document cursive is not the same as what I was taught in school. Similar, but there are places it will trip you up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Funny enough, there was an op-ed from a professor lamenting the fact that younger generations can't read cursives. He worried that the current generation will become future historians who may not be able to read them.

Might as well lament not being able to write and read cuneiforms or oghams by the masses is what I thought to myself. If cursive writing becomes obsolete and relic of history, so be it. Historians specialise reading ancient texts so the same expectations should be applied to future historians to specialise reading cursives, if they are so interested.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Right, it's not like someone who becomes a historian can't easily learn how to read cursive. It's not exactly rocket science.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Signing mortgages....so ueah, absolutely nothing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Do you actually think it matters what is written? All they want is proof that you signed, draw a penis for all they care.

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