Can you write in cursive?

[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.

[darth_hideout@mas.to]

@futurebird

In days of yore, when I was in college & travelers' checks roamed the earth, I met an American traveler my age in a Dublin hostel who was unable ever to sign his name the same way twice. Had issues. lol

[jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net]

@futurebird@sauropods.win i'm sure i hate it more than i would if i wasn't forced to use it. for whatever reason i found it extremely hard to write cursive legibly enough for the teacher to accept, when i had ok handwriting before

and my school also used D'Nealian writing before cursive which probably didn't help lol

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@emily_rugburn
I was in my first year, with a Presbyterian teacher who held tightly on to the belief left handedness was of the devil. The 70s.
@futurebird

[srlevine@neuromatch.social]

@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).