Can you write in cursive?

[jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt]

@futurebird I'm a lefty. My cursive has had better days: writing faster means less finesse, the "m", "n", "s" and "r" suffer from legibility, I have to slow down when writing for others (for example, public exams or queries to companies/state entities) so they can understand what I wrote.
But I write at least two A4 pages of cursive every day.

[madengineering@mastodon.cloud]

@futurebird My normal handwriting is a weird demented scrawl that my 11th grade English teacher joked that it should be rented to the CIA as a form of encryption. It is none the less satisfying to write.

I also have a slower and more legible print for when other people being able to read it is important.

[utopiarte@tupambae.org]

@futurebird

Yes, and often do.

[juni@tech.lgbt]

@futurebird I am missing an option for psychopathic half-cursive.

[medeavanamonde@beige.party]

@futurebird my cursive looks like Stimpson J. Cat’s hand writing .

[quoidian@mastodon.online]

@futurebird
You didn't ask about quality .

[paulc@mstdn.social]

@futurebird Somewhat painful since my father had beautiful handwriting. Which was probably the result of being an engineer and spending many hours at a drafting table. A commanding officer didn't want my father to leave the unit because he was so good at making signs.

[mage_of_chaos@mastodon.social]

@futurebird only your name in cursive is called a "signature", I write very pretty cursive, my plain type is bleh. But someone people forged letters by me by copying my handwriting. Or signatures on BIG things.
That was incredibly annoying.
A signature is a signifier to your legal identity. Forging a signature is considered Identity theft in some cases. Even Children can be fraudsters, so it's important to distinguish between all variables.

[zipidog@mastodon.uno]

@futurebird I only handwrite greeting cards and love letters for my partner. I have two writing styles, and both are ugly. But I'm proud of it.

[freequaybuoy@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Like, as in, comic sans?

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@futurebird I was successful in concealing the fact that I could read cursive from my parents for almost a year. Much useful intelligence was gained.
Eventually slipped up in front of Mom, but it was useful for a while.

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird

I occasionally write in cursive just to remember how. I do sometimes have to look up how to do a few of the capital letters.

A capital "Q" in cursive looks like a number 2 for some reason.

[amd@gts.amd.im]

@futurebird I’m old enough that I took hand drafting courses and my hand writing is in all capitals and has weird artifacts like crossed 7s and slashed zeros.

I like it perfectly fine…Except that I frequently find myself teaching young children and then it looks foreign and incorrect.

So I try to write “correctly” and it looks like a second grader wrote it.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@jmax @futurebird I could read upside down and found out a few things that way

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird

My handwriting is borderline illegible but at least Microsoft can't use my spiral notebooks to train its Copilot models.

[beisbolcards@mastodon.world]

@futurebird

While able to write cursive, I have very bad penmanship, probably due to the fact that I tried to mimic my left-handed sister when learning to write - I can't write with my left hand.

My mom thought I was just playing with my siblings but didn't notice it until I was able to read, and I never really corrected my writing.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@SRLevine @futurebird There are handwriting styles based exactly on that for ease and efficiency.

[jamie@fedi.jametek.com]

@futurebird@sauropods.win I've got classic dyslexia handwriting: it's gibberish and angry scribbles. I think i understand the process and what shapes I'm supposed to use but it's not practical.

My writing is always a disaster.

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@geonz @futurebird Oh, yes. I have worked as a consultant, and reading upside down is an essential meeting skill.

[thad@brontosin.space]

@futurebird I learned it. I painstakingly worked on improving my penmanship and that was good for my fine motor skills.

But I had teachers in 6th grade who were militant about submitting papers in cursive, because "that's how adults communicate", not this computer fad.

I can't think of a single instance in my adult life I've written anything in cursive. I don't even sign my name in cursive.

Calligraphy is an art and I respect it as a skill, but no, it's not how I communicate as an adult.