Can you write in cursive?

[debcha@saturation.social]

@futurebird All my notes in engineering and grad school were exclusively in clear, legible printing (I’d stopped using cursive), which ended up serving me well — while I’m a little envious of all my architect/designer friends and colleagues with ‘cool’ lettering compared to my very plain upper- and lowercase, mine is so much more readable on a whiteboard.

[trurl@mastodon.sdf.org]

@futurebird it depends on context. If you're writing Russian as a grown-up, you write in cursive. This influenced my handwriting in English, but I'm happy with my personal longhand, which is not usually full-blown cursive but sometimes comes close.

@adhdphd recently got me into using a fountain pen, and that lends itself to more cursive-like handwriting.

Also, I've been meaning to pick up some form of shorthand one of these days. I always thought it would be useful for long work meetings.

[madengineering@mastodon.cloud]

@futurebird Cursive was absolutely rammed down my throat as a school boy. Teachers insisted that it was the only real way to write and college would not accept paper written in print.
Now I basically never use cursive, and think it's a crappy writing system that damages readability in favor of stylistic nonsense.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird I have, since enlisting in the Navy, written almost exclusively in block capitals. The act is choppier and less fluid than cursive or even regular print, but it’s always clearly legible (to me). Given the frequency with which I have difficulty with the handwriting of others, I consider the trade-offs worth it.

[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.