Can you write in cursive?

[floatybirb@mastodon.social]

@futurebird voting "yes" in the sense of "seems fine." rather than in the sense of "omg i really love it!"

[tarix29@tech.lgbt]

@futurebird my cursive handwriting looks pretty good in my opinion, but I never write in cursive because I was never fast enough with it, despite years of daily practice. Then again my print is slow too and looks bad

A bit off topic, but I've recently (last week) started trying to learn to write with my left hand because my writing is slow, ugly, and makes my hand cramp after 2-3 sentences. Also I have RSI in my right hand so I'm trying to mitigate that a little. So far it's going alright, but I'll have to keep going to see if it'll actually be viable

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@emily_rugburn
Same, more or less. I can't write with the left, but each hand plays its part and I do do a lot of things backwards.
@futurebird

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@theowrites

I switch to cursive when I want students to ask more questions.

I have my 6th grade programming students design a cursive font with turtle-like commands and they loved learning about the letters which they regard as "black magic of old people"

Each kid programed the path of a letter then we put them in a bigger script so it could write words.

It was hideous!

(But they did use the letters for monograms which looked better.)

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@theowrites

This was my first time trying the font making lesson... I think I can refine it so the result will be better.

And you need to pick a kid who is *really* good with getting the turtle to dance to do letters like I and G. Some of them got in to it more than others so the font was a little ... inconsistent.

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@emily_rugburn
I think it's probably stopped, at least in the West, but I know some who'd be happy to bring it back.
@futurebird

[sehe@fosstodon.org]

@futurebird It's a bit of both. Yes, but I rarely do. However, when I write it's *always* in cursive. It's my only handwriting.

[crcollins@writing.exchange]

@futurebird

It used to be fine, but erosive arthritis has made it nearly illegible, plus I can no longer write in small spaces (my husband has to sign any checks we need to send.)

[arratoon@beige.party]

@futurebird I can but years of using Teeline shorthand ruined my already terrible handwriting.

[swoonie@mastodon.ie]

@michael_w_busch @futurebird
... but we write German in the same cursive (set of letters) as other western European languages, no?

[swoonie@mastodon.ie]

@futurebird I love writing cursive regardless of the language. But there's not much opportunity to do it apart from the shopping list. Maybe I should go back to writing letters like I did until the 1990s?

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@hypostase i had this problem with writing backwards early on. i think i was just mirroring right handed people...

i explained to someone that my left hand can do very intricate things and my right hand can only make gross movements...that being said, i cannot do things with my left hand that i do with my right (and obvs vise versa).

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@swoonie @futurebird

I understood that there are three different varieties of German cursive in use?

Which was not so confusing as Russian cursive where half a dozen letters all look very similar to one another.

[aloe@app.wafrn.net]

@futurebird@sauropods.win

im not sure if you'd call my go-to handwriting cursive or print exactly

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird i do every so often for artistic effect (or signing things), but generally i print as legibly as possible

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@emily_rugburn
My fine motor coordination isn't great in either, but the left is probably naturally better. What you say makes perfect sense.

[debcha@saturation.social]

@futurebird All my notes in engineering and grad school were exclusively in clear, legible printing (I’d stopped using cursive), which ended up serving me well — while I’m a little envious of all my architect/designer friends and colleagues with ‘cool’ lettering compared to my very plain upper- and lowercase, mine is so much more readable on a whiteboard.

[trurl@mastodon.sdf.org]

@futurebird it depends on context. If you're writing Russian as a grown-up, you write in cursive. This influenced my handwriting in English, but I'm happy with my personal longhand, which is not usually full-blown cursive but sometimes comes close.

@adhdphd recently got me into using a fountain pen, and that lends itself to more cursive-like handwriting.

Also, I've been meaning to pick up some form of shorthand one of these days. I always thought it would be useful for long work meetings.

[madengineering@mastodon.cloud]

@futurebird Cursive was absolutely rammed down my throat as a school boy. Teachers insisted that it was the only real way to write and college would not accept paper written in print.
Now I basically never use cursive, and think it's a crappy writing system that damages readability in favor of stylistic nonsense.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird I have, since enlisting in the Navy, written almost exclusively in block capitals. The act is choppier and less fluid than cursive or even regular print, but it’s always clearly legible (to me). Given the frequency with which I have difficulty with the handwriting of others, I consider the trade-offs worth it.