Can you write in cursive?
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird when I was about 8 or 9 the Lord of the Rings movies had just come out and I remember seeing an ad with the Elvish writing and I came to the conclusion that "that's how sorcerers write so I need to write like that because one day I'm gonna be a sorcerer!". So I did
At school we had to learn cursive to get a pen licence. It took me twice as long to get mine than anyone else and my teacher was horrible about it. But to this day I still write like a sorcerer and I use pen and paper more than anything else for my writing. Even more than 2 decades later I still love writing like a sorcerer and there's nothing as magical as pen and paper to me
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird It depends on the type of writing. If it's just a note or a list, or something to be read by other people, printing. If it's creative writing or anything that requires more fluid thinking, cursive.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird left handed here. my 2nd grade teacher told me that they were going to hold me back a year unless my handwriting improved. ever since then, i hate thinking about having to physically write things out.
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@futurebird left handed here. my 2nd grade teacher told me that they were going to hold me back a year unless my handwriting improved. ever since then, i hate thinking about having to physically write things out.
This is very bad IMO. It's a nonsense reason to hold a kid back. I think many schools have replaced cursive units with touch typing which is also very useful. Though neither of these things is always taught in the most thoughtful way.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird@sauropods.win i hate cursive. i was forced to use it from about 3rd to 6th grade and it made me hate writing
once i was allowed to use block writing i switched back as soon as i could. tho my writing looks like crap
i think it's a huge waste of time to force kids to learn cursive -
Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird where is the "Can you only write cursive" category?
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird my style of hand writing is mostly print letters but with some cursive ones thrown in occasionally, usually s. i like my handwriting ok when i’m not hurrying it, but it gets messy when i’m in a rush
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird I don't know if I "like" my handwriting but I do have nonstandard ways of writing particular cursive letters, and over the years I've consciously changed the way I print certain letters. So it's very much "mine."
E.g. in 2nd or 3rd grade I thought the way lowercase a looked in the newspaper was way cooler than the letter as I'd been taught, so I switched.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win i hate cursive. i was forced to use it from about 3rd to 6th grade and it made me hate writing
once i was allowed to use block writing i switched back as soon as i could. tho my writing looks like crap
i think it's a huge waste of time to force kids to learn cursiveI'm a huge fan of cursive but was never forced to use it. I think that might be the problem.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird I was shamed for having “bad” cursive penmanship. I dropped it as soon as it wasn’t a requirement anymore.
I don’t even think it was that bad.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
In days of yore, when I was in college & travelers' checks roamed the earth, I met an American traveler my age in a Dublin hostel who was unable ever to sign his name the same way twice. Had issues. lol
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I'm a huge fan of cursive but was never forced to use it. I think that might be the problem.
@futurebird@sauropods.win i'm sure i hate it more than i would if i wasn't forced to use it. for whatever reason i found it extremely hard to write cursive legibly enough for the teacher to accept, when i had ok handwriting before
and my school also used D'Nealian writing before cursive which probably didn't help lol -
@futurebird left handed here. my 2nd grade teacher told me that they were going to hold me back a year unless my handwriting improved. ever since then, i hate thinking about having to physically write things out.
@emily_rugburn
I was in my first year, with a Presbyterian teacher who held tightly on to the belief left handedness was of the devil. The 70s.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird My handwriting somehow evolved into an idiosyncratic mix of some cursive letters and some print, often depending on where the letters are in a word? So I chose "technically yes, but I don't" because that seemed the closest (I can write full on cursive, but it's not my default).
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird Yes, but I don't, because it comes out in Cyrillic ever since I studied Russian in college.
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This is very bad IMO. It's a nonsense reason to hold a kid back. I think many schools have replaced cursive units with touch typing which is also very useful. Though neither of these things is always taught in the most thoughtful way.
@futurebird it was the mid 80's
i was the only left handed kid in my whole
class...im not sure how that happened.my sister, who is a couple of years older than me and far more left handed than i am, has impeccable penmanship because she was threatened with the same thing at the same age (although i didnt find out about that until decades later)
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@futurebird left handed here. my 2nd grade teacher told me that they were going to hold me back a year unless my handwriting improved. ever since then, i hate thinking about having to physically write things out.
@emily_rugburn
Also I'm really sorry that happened to you, it really sucks.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird Other: it's fine, better than awkward but less than love.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird
None but pharmacists and doctors can read it, though.
Cursive with a fountain pen is a sensual pleasure, regardless. -
Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
I had dreadful handwriting as a child. At secondary school they made me work to improve it. I don't think it was ever beautiful but it was regular and legible.
Then computers.
Now I find writing by hand a bit of a chore, I don't get enough practice. It's not degenerated to my eleven year old standard, yet. It could though if I don't take care to keep doing it.
