Daffy Duck
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Taught at primary school in the 80s, couldnt do it now if my life depended on it.
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Do you know how to handwrite (cursive) in English? Use it often?
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charliebear
Neo Member
I'm so confused. Every child I teach. Every adult I work work. Everyone I deal with. All use joined up writing. UK?
Yes, and I use it exactly never. Not once in my entire life have I used it outside of when I first learned in elementary school almost 30 goddamn years ago.
Which is why I refuse to waste instructional time teaching my students cursive when there are countless other more valuable things for them to learn.
Which is why I refuse to waste instructional time teaching my students cursive when there are countless other more valuable things for them to learn.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Yes. I use it a fair bit, also. I have pretty handwriting, apparently.
mambadragon
Banned
I used cursive a lot up through college when I would take tests since I would write faster and could get more on paper. I still occasionally use it but I know my cursive is difficult for others to read.
I'm all about the lowercase J and F, and love me some uppercase L's.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
I vividly remember being in primary school and being told it was time to learn joined-up writing. I tried it and was like no, this isn't for me. Haven't used it since and I likely never will.
Steeped in a Sea of Games
Member
I used to know, was taught in elementary school like others here. I haven't used it in years and quite frankly have mostly forgotten how outside of my name. I remember having to sign my middle name for some document and struggling to remember how to write an upper-case R. Just went for the scribble.
Earthbound64
Banned
Yes.
I also had to teach children how to write in cursive.
Aside from that, and my signature of course, and on various tests that require passages to be written in cursive for verification, no I don't use it otherwise.
I also had to teach children how to write in cursive.
Aside from that, and my signature of course, and on various tests that require passages to be written in cursive for verification, no I don't use it otherwise.
Those are definitely great as part of words but I just love writing both upper and lower case Z in cursive on their own. Something about the gear shift between the smooth curve to a sharp point and back to the smooth curve just scratches an itch in me. As a kid learning Tamil I would just write ஒ, அ and other permutations of those letters in notebooks despite never really picking up how to properly write coherent sentences just because it was fun to write.
I almost want to make a thread about satisfying letters and words to write and say in different languages but I'm too lazy to give a proper starting off point with a bunch of examples.
What fucking tests do this? Jesus christ.
Cursive is dumb and useless aside from my signature, so no I don't use it.
Earthbound64
Banned
Most recent ones for me were the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure.
They had you copy an entire paragraph in cursive for use for identity verification.
I think the SAT did too, but it's been 17 years since I took that, my memory's fuzzy on it.
Having you sign something is a similar concept - your cursive writing is more identifying than your print writing.
It's all an identity verification thing.
SkateorDi3
Member
I know the lower case letters, but I couldn't give a shit to memorize the capital letters. Cursive can go die in a fire for all I care. I scribble a vague resemblance of my name in cursive when I sign my signature.
Spoiled Milk
Banned
I know it, and it's more readable than my printing, but i don't use it anymore. I'll shed a tear but I understand why it's gone.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
It's the faster way to write by hand. If I'm writing it for me, then I use cursive.
Pretty much stopped using it for others when I graduated and no longer needed to write essays during tests.
Pretty much stopped using it for others when I graduated and no longer needed to write essays during tests.
Dammit I thought I corrected that fucker.
super-famicom
Member
I had to use it all throughout elementary and jr high, though I did go to a private school for Kindergarten-8th grade. Once I started high school (public), my English teaching told me to stop using cursive and just print.
PandaShake
Member
Only using for signatures
tonysidaway
Member
Every single one of my comments on NeoGAF is born in the brow of contemplation, lovingly crafted by my own right hand in copperplate, transcribed to paper tape using a flexowriter of my own design, then fed kicking and screaming into the internet machine which squats like a well fed toad in the corner of my kitchen.
This quill is getting a bit scratchy on the parchment. I'll have to ask a servant to bring some feathers back from the poulterer tomorrow.
This quill is getting a bit scratchy on the parchment. I'll have to ask a servant to bring some feathers back from the poulterer tomorrow.
Of course I can read and write cursive. Can people read my cursive writing is the true question? My cursive was always so messy and terrible.
Even when I was younger I only used it when school required it, otherwise I printed, or typed.
They say people write faster in cursive compared to print ...but I type WAY faster than I write either by hand.
Now I only use it for my signature. Everything else is either typed or handwritten in print.
Even when I was younger I only used it when school required it, otherwise I printed, or typed.
They say people write faster in cursive compared to print ...but I type WAY faster than I write either by hand.
Now I only use it for my signature. Everything else is either typed or handwritten in print.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Yeah, we had to use cursive in primary school (and fountain pens to write with). Had classes and everything.
My handwriting is inconsistent as fuck. It's an unholy fusion of print and cursive, with some letters being more fancy looking, some looking only somewhat cursive and others just being straight up unintelligible.
My handwriting is inconsistent as fuck. It's an unholy fusion of print and cursive, with some letters being more fancy looking, some looking only somewhat cursive and others just being straight up unintelligible.
Poltergust
Member
It's my primary way of writing. I've turned in essays completely in cursive lol.
Not because of preference, though; I'm a slow writer and my cursive is faster than my print.
Not because of preference, though; I'm a slow writer and my cursive is faster than my print.
Triforce141
Member
Yes, teachers in early school pressured me to learn it because "cursive would be important in everyday life."
I haven't used it since that grade
I haven't used it since that grade
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
We should stop teaching it, but I do know it.
Wafflecakes
Member
The school I work at still requires all work be in cursive for students through 8th grade.
Such a massive waste of time.
Such a massive waste of time.
I remember being taught cursive in like 2nd grade, but I don't ever remember being forced to write in cursive at all. If I'm not in school the only time I write is to sign documents and most of the time they specially say to print name. On top of this is that in this day and age everything must be typed, especially true in college. I personally write with a mix between print and cursive, depending which format I like for each letter.
Fug Slanderson
Member
Yes, I write almost exclusively in cursive as it's the fastest way to write. Plus it looks nice.