Cursive is no more!

shipwreck said:
Just like in the song, when you laugh the world laughs with you, when you cry (in my case over the demise of cursive) the whole world laughs at you.
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Not at all. Think about it: with just the passage of time, you can write in CODE!
Another 10 years, you can be invisible in malls.
 
I do know that since I began using a word processer, prior to the desktop computers, and even more since I used my desktop all day and night long, that my cursive writing has gotten progressively worse. I just am not in practice any longer. I can't throw a baseball or softball as far as I used to, either. Unless we continue to use something, we lose that something.

Yes, even THAT.

TJ
 
Totally Judy said:
I do know that since I began using a word processer, prior to the desktop computers, and even more since I used my desktop all day and night long, that my cursive writing has gotten progressively worse. I just am not in practice any longer. I can't throw a baseball or softball as far as I used to, either. Unless we continue to use something, we lose that something.

Yes, even THAT.

TJ
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OH NO!!!!! Haven't used THAT since the divorce (6 years ago). Does that mean I can expect it to shrivel up and fall off any day now???
 
shipwreck said:
Hey guys, I just found a story that for some reason shocked me than any of the acts of violence you find depicted in the Prac-tac forum. An overseas friend of mine had been asking me some questions about cursive, she had recieved a thank you note in english cursive and couldn't read it. So I translated it for her and gave her a link on the net so she could see how cursive letters corespond to printed letters. A couple of days later she replies back and tells me that she has decided not to make cursive writing and reading part of her studies in learning English as a second language because she read on the internet that cursive is not used in America anymore!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001475.html

I just can't get over this! This got to me. Something really fundamental in the society that I grew up in has changed! It gives me for the first time in my life a glimpse into how my grandfather and father must feel seeing the world becoming something they dont recognize anymore. So......there you have it. If you can read cursive handwriting that means you are old guys, going the way of the dinosaur.
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I am only 23 and I was taught to use cursive all through school. My handwriting isn't the neatest so I have to take my time when writing in cursive so others can clearly read it.
 
The cursive is for speed. We now have typing (or tapping for some) so there is no use for quick writing. Shorthand? Yah I learned it but why? Surely the power will never fail. Let the sheep forget how to write just as they have to grow even the basic crops. It will only make my progeny that much more valuable. Do dumb down, me and mine won't.

*edit* Did forget to add that I can no longer remember anyone's phone number since I can simply scroll down to they're name and hit sent. Good thing my main correspondence is face to face.
 
Cursive isn't dead. My students have to use it for all of their written assignments. I will not surrender on this.
 
I wouldn't say cursive is entirely dead; I still use a bastardized mix of cursive and print, same as I've always done.

I'm sure there were people who bemoaned the passing of the era of the outhouse.
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If you've ever gone an extended period without indoor plumbing, getting used to an indoor toilet is a difficult readjustment. Taking a dump inside the house is completely gross. Our outhouse-only ancestors might think we are disgusting animals if they could see us now.

Actually, in many rural areas outhouses were not common either. Many people didn't have outhouses until the WPA built them in the 1930s-1940s out of sanitation / desease-control concerns.

http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/RevisitingOuthousesBB903.htm
 
ashtxsniper said:
I am only 23 and I was taught to use cursive all through school. My handwriting isn't the neatest so I have to take my time when writing in cursive so others can clearly read it.
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LOL If you are 23, then I'm a 16 year old Student.:D

And, Whats this thing you call handwriting.:D
 
Eric J said:
Cursive isn't dead. My students have to use it for all of their written assignments. I will not surrender on this.
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I hope these are 2nd or 3rd graders. I would not comply as a student beyond those grades to such a silly request. It is even beyond silly. After the 2nd grade I NEVER used it. Flat out refused. It has no buisiness outside of art class. If you are an art teacher then carry on. Other wise :jerkit: Please STOP wasting these kids time.
 
It stopped being a requirement for me when I was in junior high. (Thank GOD!)

I haven't used it since.

My wife uses it, and you can actually read her handwriting; it is very good. One of my daughters had never seen my handwriting in cursive, and she recently asked me to write a note, and no one could read it!

I'll stick to good old printing, thank you.
 
Mongo said:
Cursive can't be too dead... they're teaching it to my second grader.
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My 7 year old Daughter is writing in cursive right now. She is determined to write everything.... no matter how un-legible... in cursive.

I write in ALL CAPS. ;)
 
I can still write (very well, actually) in cursive, but then, I AM an old guy.:D.:D.
 
My fifth grader will be awful glad to hear of this. He still has cursive rammed down his throat at school, and gets in trouble for even the slightest nuance or imperfection in his writing. Yup. He's havin' a real tough school year.
 
I was taught cursive, but thanks to a stiff wrist, I was never able to write it well. Despite my mom's insistence that I had great handwriting until HS, I never managed to get anything but C/C+ in those classes.

As is, I can still do the forms, but I don't do them fluidly anymore. Considering I'm a med student, clarity is over-rated! ;) (Just kidding- I print EVERYTHING!)
 
This reminds me of something I read a couple years back. Chinese written characters where each one represents a word or idea are fairly complex. When the communists took over in 1948 one of the first things they did was to "Simplify" the written characters. The result? Most mainland Chinese under the age of 40 or so can`t read anything that was printed before they were born.

They have one of the longest written histories of any culture in the world....and only a few scholors can read any of it. I won`t go into a rant about information control, but what a waste.

By the way, anyone here know how to use a sliderule?
 
Alright!! The Abacus rules!!

Did you know it`s still a requirement in most Japanese business schools? It`s because getting good with one enables you to do math in your head much easier.
 
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