classical_hero
In whom I trust
Most of my writing is done on a keyboard and plus my cursive is hard to understand, so if I need to use a pen, I print rather than curse.
Cursive Writing
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Mise
isle of lucy
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I learned it in grade school, and was told we'd need it for everything thereafter, for the rest of our lives. I got to middle school, found that no one cared, and promptly forgot it. I can sign my name (and read cursive written words, of course) but that's about it.
BvBPL
Pour Decision Maker
It also states that: "Note that not all such cursive, then or now, joined all of the letters within a word."
So the distinction can be made between cursive (as a script) and joining up letters, if one wants to be pedantic. Which I guess I am being.
Mise
isle of lucy
Oh, well, I stopped reading after I found a part of the text that agreed with my own opinion.
Oh, well, I stopped reading after I found a part of the text that agreed with my own opinion.
I usually stop reading before that point and just assume that part of the text exists.
I prefer my printed script over cursive. It's only faster if you practice it, and given that I have practiced in printed script over cursive, it is both faster, more legible, easier, etc. I'd be a fool not to print.
Plus, I'm convinced that the "advantages" of cursive are largely lost if you are left-handed--it's far more uncomfortable than printing, and the speed difference is less significant because you have to push the pen over pulling it.
Plus, I'm convinced that the "advantages" of cursive are largely lost if you are left-handed--it's far more uncomfortable than printing, and the speed difference is less significant because you have to push the pen over pulling it.
If you're pressing down hard enough for there to be "pushing" or "pulling" involved, you're not writing very efficiently anyway.
I write with quality pens, and just press enough for them to make ink lines on my paper.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
Vastly prefer print. I have little patience for fancy touches in writing.
Someday I will start using cursive just so that my grandchildren cannot read the "secret code"... 
...though then they'll just take a picture of it from their smartwrist implant and immediately have the typed-out decryption read aloud to them.
...though then they'll just take a picture of it from their smartwrist implant and immediately have the typed-out decryption read aloud to them.
If you are left-handed and writing left-to-right, you have to push the pen across the page. If you are right-handed, you have to pull it across the page.
jtb1127
Deity
There's no 'don't use it, don't like it'.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
That's basically what "don't like it" is.
jtb1127
Deity
No, I don't write in cursive because my cursive writing is ugly, but I like cursive writing. Unless this is specific to our own writing.
SeekTruthFromFacts
King
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But isn't it just slow?You take notes in print?
No, it's not. I can print wayyy faster than I can write in cursive, and the notes are always neater/more legible to boot.
Practice makes a big difference here.
dIZZyBlIZZy
Batteries not included
Most people I know, including myself, write much faster in cursive, you are likely an exception to the rule. But as you said, it's certainly more legible to use a manuscript form of writing.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
I find print isn't that much slower. And I prefer to read print too.
CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
I'm one of the only people under 18 who still uses cursive, but I find it the most effective way of writing quickly and neatly.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
This and....
This. When you look at a newspaper, it isn't printed in cursive. There's a reason for that.
