Can you write in cursive?

[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.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@emily_rugburn

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.

[jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net]

@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

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@futurebird where is the "Can you only write cursive" category?

[literally@mstdn.party]

@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

[liferstate@mas.to]

@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.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@jiub

I'm a huge fan of cursive but was never forced to use it. I think that might be the problem.

[jdm2@boriken.social]

@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.