Can you write in cursive?

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@futurebird
When I took notes as a reporter I often wrote in a half-cursive scrawl that no one but me could read. It was ... pretty bad, actually. My handwriting was never all that great.

[stephan324ppm@mastodon.no2nd.earth]

@futurebird actually was pondering this recently ...

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@futurebird
I do if it's important, but I'm an old so I can. It's appallingly bad, and I'm kinda phobic about it, having had it beaten into me as a kid.

On the other hand, if I take notes by hand, the action of writing embeds stuff in my brain better than a keyboard.

[libramoon@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

my handwriting is a true challenge to read, and yet I do my first drafts by hand, and edit as I type it for word processing

[chrischris@theforkiverse.com]

@futurebird took about thirty years. looks like someone who learned cursive and then decided it was optional — which is accurate. the notes are legible. stopped apologizing for the rest.

[kateiacy@planetearth.social]

@futurebird It would be interesting to see this broken down by broad age brackets.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@futurebird I write by hand a lot (and yes, cursive). My penmanship isn’t great so I don’t love it, but I do like writing by hand. I always have a pen within reach (ok, several).

[malte@radikal.social]

@futurebird I learned to appreciate developing my own handwriting from my grand father who was an illustrator and typographist. He always had the most beautiful way of lettering signs in his home and the church he was volunteering in. Some of those signs are still there decades after. I liked to read his letters and started playing around with handwriting early on in my childhood because of it. I would write nonsense and just marvel at the letters. It is my favorite way of doodling.

[brett@brettiverse.com]

@futurebird First they taught me how to write print so I did that, then they taught me cursive so I did that, then they taught me to write in block capitals so I did that.

Then I left academia and now I'm stuck writing like a child who never learned about lower case

[clarkiestar@mas.to]

@futurebird I don’t really know another way to write

[jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk]

@futurebird Yes but my handwriting is now terrible because I don't do it often enough due to computing (hell, I struggle to get my signature to look the same twice for the same reason).

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@futurebird

For me; this depends on the language.

English and French and Spanish I can do fine.

German and Russian cursive I never learned well enough to read or write. And Japanese and Chinese I have never attempted.

[djm62@beige.party]

@futurebird I prefer my cursive in Cyrillic over English, because I have bad memories of being forced to overcome terrible writing in English, and Russian was like "new script who this" so it was all good.

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird Blimey, I haven't tried for over 40 years. Must give it a go, it can't be worse than my usual scrawl*

* Ok, it can.

[fay@lingo.lol]

@futurebird I like it as in I made it look fun for me, but it's not generally speaking very good

[pjakobs@mastodon.green]

@futurebird I had to learn "schräge normschrift DIN 17“ and later used palm pilot and learned their special writing system. Those three together still make up my writing - I write cursive and technical a and e mixed up and many other quirks

[stragu@mastodon.indie.host]

@futurebird I don't like my writing, I find it messy and not pretty
I regularly have a bout of motivation to "take the time to write more slowly in a more tidy way" hoping that it will improve but it never leads to any change. Maybe it's just my usual unnecessarily abundant self-criticism at play and I should just be proud of how unique it is. (My partner makes fun / finds it endearing that I write "i"s and "j"s starting with the dot.)

[captainvellalives@lgbtqia.space]

@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

[liferstate@mas.to]

@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.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@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.