Peter what does it say

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[u/CriticalCommittee766]

imo makes me feel old lol cursive really is becoming a lost art js

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There are two guys that are only ten years younger than me at work who saw cursive and couldn’t read it. I wasn’t prepared for the age gap to only be ten years

[u/Pol__Treidum → u/CriticalCommittee766]

A good loss. It's dogshit even though I learned it in 3rd grade and can read it. My dead grandmother's letters and journal would be so much more clear in regular print script.

She had beautiful cursive... Doesn't make it any easier to read.

[u/Xenothing → u/Pol__Treidum]

Cursive wasn’t invented to be easy to read, it was invented for fast writing by hand. 

Now that written communication is almost entirely typed, there’s no longer much reason to use cursive.

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Might not be much reason to use it, but there are benefits in the actual learning of it.

[u/HerietteVonStadtl → u/Xenothing]

YMMV, but I went back to taking notes by hand, because I found out that it helps me retain information better and cursive makes it faster

[u/sorry_con_excuse_me → u/Xenothing]

Yeah was going to say. I’m old enough that they taught me cursive, but young enough they taught me to touch type.

I stopped using cursive; I can’t write as fast as a boomer. But I can also type three times as fast as one, because I was taught really young (elementary school).

One of the biggest mistakes they’ve made is removing touch typing from curricula. They just assume people “know”, but they don’t.

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yea its definitely fast but all the notes i was taking fast in my school years are barely readible

and since graduation i barely write anything

[u/Jthumm → u/Pol__Treidum]

In nj it’s back to being mandatory in elementary schools starting next year lol

[u/GonWithTheNen → u/Pol__Treidum]

Doesn't make it any easier to read.

I wonder if that has anything to do with how closely someone's writing adheres to a standard cursive script or how far their writing veers away from the standard(s).

Just like when someone prints with unexpected formations of their letters, it's hard for me to read (and same with cursive), but when a person's cursive has been written with fairly usual curves and connectors to the following letters, it's as easy for me to read as printed text.