10-25-2003, 01:37 PM | #3 (permalink) |
The Dreaded Pixel Nazi
Location: Inside my camera
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formal looking also.
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10-25-2003, 03:01 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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I was required to write in cursive from third through fifth grade. Once I got to middle school and discovered it doesn't matter, dropped it for good ol' fashioned normal writing. Now about all I can write in cursive is my signature.
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10-25-2003, 03:24 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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Location: College
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Perhaps it should be a high school elective subject rather than a mandatory elementary school thing. Their are much more useful things for little kids to learn anyway. |
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10-25-2003, 04:30 PM | #8 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Canada
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I'm left handed, and I've always found cursive extremely difficult. I think it's much easier to write flowing strokes by drawing a pen behind your hand (i.e. right handed people) than by having to follow the writing with your hand (i.e. LH people). And let's not even get into smudging :P
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10-25-2003, 08:45 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Location: under the freeway bridge
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I am the reason word processing was invented.....was it not for the computer I would probably be considered illiterate......Typewriter? come on all that white stuff all over ..... what was wrong with cuneiform anyway?
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10-25-2003, 11:19 PM | #11 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: Tampa
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I started to learn it in the 3rd grade but then I went to a private school where they made me write in pure caligraphy instead. Now I can't read anything in cursive without struggling.
Now that we have computers I don't think we'll see much more of cursive handwriting. Besides, think of how much time that will free up for teaching our kids something that really matters. |
10-26-2003, 03:35 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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You bunch of pinko communists bastards! What the hells going on here? Don't you all understand that cursive writing is the basis of our great and mighty nation. That without cursive writing, there would be no polio vaccine, no toaster struedels, no weapons of mass destruction, no fine cuban women to massage my prostate.
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10-26-2003, 09:48 AM | #13 (permalink) | |
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
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Yes, cursive is demonstrably faster because you don't have to lift your pen. Not only is it also an art form and part of our culture, we still need it to sign documents with it. It's a personal mark that uniquifies us (surprisingly well) and is somewhat difficult to forge. While all this stuff can be bypassed, it's like software protection schemes. It's meant to stop casual piracy. Or, in this case, casual forgery... |
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10-26-2003, 09:53 AM | #14 (permalink) | |
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
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If most of us were left handed, we would probably be reading and writing right to left, for the same reasons... |
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10-26-2003, 08:14 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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i can print faster and clearer than i could ever write cursively, and it's a lot neater also. it's all a matter of what you spend most of your time practicing. i think many others feel this way. in fact if speed is an issue it's best to practice your own type of shorthand.
about signatures: i'm wondering what will happen to cursive when/if we start marking documents with electronical keys. |
10-28-2003, 06:09 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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Location: 105B
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there is no point to writing in cursive. at least i dont think so. it is supposed to be a lot faster in print, but i dont think so. it is also made to be read easier by some people too but i guess they have never seen me write in it. i quit trying cursive because i write in print so much faster and if i want something legible i'll type it up.
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10-29-2003, 06:11 AM | #19 (permalink) | |
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Location: VA
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10-29-2003, 05:43 PM | #21 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Toronto
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I think cursive is a pain to use, especially if you haven't been done it in a while (i.e. me). But if you've been writing cursive all of your life (like grandparents), the writing is absolutely beautiful. Long, flowing stokes, with perfect curves that defy the physics of a ball-point pen. Its gorgeous.
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10-31-2003, 08:07 PM | #24 (permalink) | |
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Location: K-Town, TN
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11-01-2003, 08:41 PM | #27 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Toronto
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I would love to be able to have beautiful cursive but it's just not for me. Possibly its used for signatures because it's easier to develope your own style with cursive. There are so many ways to do all the loops and twists but normal writing is sort of one way.
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11-03-2003, 10:00 PM | #29 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Oregon
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It's faster for me to write in cursive, but it takes me longer to read back my notes . I find that I tend to mix my print with cursive when it's nessisary to speedy. For instance, I will connect the F and o in For and the g and e in get. But if I really need something fast (like school notes) I'll type it. I type faster than I print and it's more legibel than either my printing or my curisve.
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11-06-2003, 06:22 PM | #30 (permalink) |
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Back in Elementary school I used cursive all the time, but once I entered middle school I lost that skill. However my handwriting now has kind of evolved into a combination of print and cursive... which ends up quite sloppy if done fast... but hell, I understand it, so who cares!
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11-08-2003, 08:26 AM | #32 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: Sydney, Australia
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About the only time I write now is in my journal and I do that i cursive.. why? Just because. No-one needs to read it and I rarely go back and re-read what I've written so that's not an issue for me.
As a pre-teen I spent many an hour perfecting my loops and swirls and have since always been required by ex b/f's to write the messages on greeting cards! That's about as useful as it gets |
11-09-2003, 09:18 AM | #33 (permalink) |
Semi-Atomic
Location: Home.
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I have mixed feelings about it. Sure, It's useless and no one bothers to learn it, but I feel like we're letting a tradition die.
It's kinda sad, but not sad enough to make me write with it.
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12-09-2003, 06:35 AM | #35 (permalink) | |
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12-09-2003, 09:53 PM | #37 (permalink) |
On the lam
Location: northern va
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i remember reading a study years ago showing that cursive was NOT the fastest way to write. Actually, the fastest is a combination of print and cursive, where you connect some of the letters, but lift the pen so that you can cross your t's, dot your i's as you go along, and in other convenient places.
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12-11-2003, 03:14 AM | #38 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Nowhere
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Cursive is definitely faster. Regardless, I've abandoned it for print. I'm not completely sure why...I just prefer it. I don't think it's a bad skill to have if I needed to write more quickly.
Oh, and here's an interesting fact. In Russian, there's no such thing as hand-written print (or at least not normally). That means that everyone writes in cursive. It leads to some confusion when learning to write the language. For example, think of how different 'z' and 'cursive z' are. There are similar differences in Russian. |
12-11-2003, 08:26 AM | #39 (permalink) |
I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot!
Location: Upper Michigan
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Cursive is faster. I think it's beautiful when done properly. Having students study cursive teaches them pen control and can help improve handwriting and small motor control. I enjoy cursive and use it almost 80% of the time. Wrote all my Christmas cards in cursive. I took handwriting every year of highschool and 2 years of Calligraphy as well. When I'm rushed and sloppy my handwriting can look stereotypically like a physicians but when I'm halfway careful I take pride in how it looks.
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12-11-2003, 08:17 PM | #40 (permalink) |
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I never got into cursive really much so I have always been a printer. I print everything and I when I write in cursive, I am really really slow and it is terribly ugly. All I can do in cursive is my name, and it isn't all fancy like some people have their signatures either.
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