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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
Seems the end of cursive - or handwriting - is near.What do you think of this? Honestly, I never use cursive for anything besides my signature. Everything else I just print - of course, that's just because I thought it looked better and more clear when I saw my dad writing like that for his job in engineering. Is this something we should care about or do you view it as an acceptable evolution of our communication with the advent of better technology?
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I gave up on cursive as soon as the test on it in 3rd grade was over. I could have told them this literally 30 years ago. I learned to type after 6th grade and I print everything else except my signature, which is unreadable.
What they're really upset with, it seems to me, is the loss of the penmenship skill. People have been writing unreadable cursive since forever. It's not inherently "better". My response to reading that article on CNN.com was to shake my head. In every case listed in that article, they interviewed people who were specifically good at penmenship. There were no exceptions that I recall in that camp. The others, who weren't interested in penmenship, didn't give a rat's ass.
If one of those people whined at me about it, I'd either just nod sympathetically, then roll my eyes, or I'd ask them when they last illuminated a book, or used their horse-drawn sleigh, and what
ever would we do now that writers are no longer producing hand-written manuscripts with lots of editing and comments in the margin? Horrors!
It's not a case of "screw'em!", but it
is a case of, "no shit, Sherlock", I thought CNN.com reported the
news. What's news about something I knew 30 years ago?