Can you write in cursive?

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@futurebird We had to learn cursive in school, but I found it easier to use printing if I wanted to remember what I was studying.

Some of my letters are connected, just for the speed of writing. People tell me my writing is quite legible, and I can take notes faster than I can type (on any keyboard).

I was that kid who almost flunked 9th grade typing class (on large mechanical typewriters), because I never got over 20 wpm without errors.

[pigeon_@tech.lgbt]

@futurebird I literally cannot physically use pens or pencils. I'm perfectly dextrous in other ways but that specific motion...

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@hypostase @futurebird my mom is now ambidextrous because the public school system in the 50's forced all kids to learn to write with their right hands. my mom told me she would get hit with a ruler by the teacher if she used her left hand.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@hypostase @futurebird hopefully it doesnt happen anymore

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@emily_rugburn @hypostase

My dad is left handed and has horrible block print writing. Well... OK it's not that bad, you can always read it but there are no cases.

I know too many left handed people who really struggled with writing. My dad also went through the trying to force him to use his right hand nonsense.

[theowrites@ack.nerdfight.online]

@futurebird if I don't want anyone else to be able to read what I wrote easily, I will write in cursive.

[peachfront@toot.community]

@futurebird

for me writing cursive is much faster than writing block letters, but as i get older my hand writing gets messier & messier so i don't know that i "like" it, i can see from my journals that i prefer cursive when i have to make written notes in a hurry just because it's so much faster but it's about as ugly as block letters now

typing is fastest of all, 125+ WPM but that's on a full-sized keyboard not a picky little screen so in the field it's cursive or voice recorder notes

[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.