Can you write in cursive?
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@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.
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Can you write in cursive?
Yes, and often do.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird I am missing an option for psychopathic half-cursive.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird my cursive looks like Stimpson J. Cat’s hand writing .
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@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.
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Can you write in cursive?
@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.
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Can you write in cursive?
@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.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird Like, as in, comic sans?
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Can you write in cursive?
@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. -
Can you write in cursive?
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.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@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.
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@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.@jmax @futurebird I could read upside down and found out a few things that way
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
My handwriting is borderline illegible but at least Microsoft can't use my spiral notebooks to train its Copilot models.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
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.
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@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).
@SRLevine @futurebird There are handwriting styles based exactly on that for ease and efficiency.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@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.
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@jmax @futurebird I could read upside down and found out a few things that way
@geonz @futurebird Oh, yes. I have worked as a consultant, and reading upside down is an essential meeting skill.
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Can you write in cursive?
@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.
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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 @jiub I think fine motor skills are an issue too, *but* where I taught folks w/ learning disabilities, *everybody* learned cursive -- but we were friendly about it -- for lots of researched reasons. Some hated it but most appreciated -- esp if they had horrible writng -- that it was a lot easier to read your own writing when you could see where words ended and new ones started. IT was the 1990s though. Everybody also learned keyboarding.
