Cursive or Print (Block)

[aslindy]

For anything I need someone else to be able to read, I use the computer.
I do make notes for myself on paper, which are typically a cross between printing and cursive... I start out printing but half the letters are joined up anyway. Even when I write in cursive, some letters are always printed (like A, T, F, S... most capital letters.)
I can make myself print neatly, or write neat cursive, but it is slow.

 

[cthom]

Here we're taught to use cursive starting from third grade or so, and in most of elementary and high school, the teacher *demand* that you write in cursive.

not so much demand, as 'expect'. when we reached 8 years of age we were taught how to use pen and ink (from an ink well!)

 

[Quintillus]

I use print. Cursive was something they taught us in 3rd grade and made us use it until 5th grade. They told us propaganda like how we have to use cursive in higher grades and out in the workforce. Thus far I've managed to go without using it (with the exception of my scribbled signature) for 10 years now.

Same here. They kept on saying, "In middle school (later high school, then college) your teachers will require you to write in cursive." So far none of them have, other than the cursive handwriting tests in third grade.

Does everyone have neat signatures then? Mine's a completely scribbled mess that I made up when I was about 9 or 10. It's not even legible.

Not everyone does, certainly. Mine's legible, mainly because I never took the effort to make it illegible.

My daughter is in 1st grade and the print system they're using is called [wiki]D'Nealian[/wiki]. It's a form of printing which is supposed to be "cursive ready".

That's what I learned way back in first grade, too. It didn't result in great handwriting at the time (it always was my worst subject), but my handwriting has steadily improved over time and now is actually pretty good.

Edit: I should clarify that it didn't hinder my print writing. Can't say it helped cursive much, never did get too good at that (though I can still write it slowly and somewhat sloppily). My sister is decent with cursive though, so it's not hopeless.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Well, in today's fantastic essay test, I made up my own interpretation of a writing system.

Most of it was legible, I think...

My daughter is in 1st grade and the print system they're using is called [wiki]D'Nealian[/wiki]. It's a form of printing which is supposed to be "cursive ready".

D'Nealian doesn't look any different from regular cursive to me.

 

[Kennigit]

If D'Nealian isn't cursive, what is...? Thats exactly what I use.

edit- only 111 left to go!

 

[Catharsis]

Cursive, usually. I use block capitals for filling in forms and the front pages of tests, though.

Come to think of it, I doubt I could write anything of significant length in print.

 

[GenMarshall]

Same here. They kept on saying, "In middle school (later high school, then college) your teachers will require you to write in cursive." So far none of them have, other than the cursive handwriting tests in third grade.

So its true that Cursive writing is becomming obsolete and only targeted towards signatures.

Though my signature started out from a Cursive Script and then evolved to more of a Doctor's Signature .

 

[Ansar]

So its true that Cursive writing is becomming obsolete and only targeted towards signatures.

You're in college, you should know!

 

[shortguy]

As I suspect is the case with most people, I've formed my own hybrid of the two. It's a "semi-connected print," you might say.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I write with a mixture of both, which makes my handwriting even more attrocious than it would be normally...

 

[Tortosa]

I write in print and scribble a scribbly signature. Why even bother writing when no one (including the writer) can read it. If people can write legibly in cursive, then more power to them.

 

[Elrohir]

I learned how to write cursive when I was younger, but it didn't stick - I just couldn't write it fast enough to make it worthwhile. I can still write it, somewhat, but not well and it's much slower than printing. So I don't bother.

As others have said, this is the computer age, after all. I can type faster, and at least as accurately as I can print anyway.