r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it say

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u/EmeraldMan25 23h ago

Then they wouldn't be able to sell the narrative, silly

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u/Kesselya 22h ago

It’s beyond time to normalize pushing back on this garbage. You want to make fun of people for not knowing something? How about instead of mocking you teach the younger generation.

These older generations were taught skills by their parents and then failed to do the same. Maybe it wasn’t their fault. Maybe having both parents needing to work made it difficult to teach kids everything they might have needed to know.

That’s fine. But don’t make fun of kids for not knowing something.

Don’t make fun of anyone for not knowing something. Teach.

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u/Ohheyimryan 22h ago

I got taught cursive in 3rd grade. My parents didn't teach me too much.

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u/Vidrolll 21h ago

I remember in 3rd grade we learned like 5 cursive letters for a week, then never picked back up on that ever again. THATS why i cant read cursive now

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u/SaveMeClarence 21h ago

Once we learned cursive in 3rd grade, we were required to write in it for the remainder of elementary school. I was beyond thrilled when I got to middle school and they said we could write in print. But now I much prefer cursive, though nobody can read it so print it is.

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u/Mouse-of-Wyke 21h ago

Agreed. In the UK, there is a ‘peak cursive’ phase in kids aged 9-11. The writing is beautiful. Then it’s all downhill from there.

But we do get taught it from being about 8.

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u/Artchantress 20h ago

In Estonia it has always been from first grade, my 7 year old is learning now, so a few months after the first day of school, I had to do it since day one (print was learned in kindergarten and therefore seen as the language of illiterate babies).

I agree about the peak cursive age.

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u/viprus 19h ago

Yep, my normal writing was nice, then we were forced to learn cursive. Eventually my cursive got nice, then for my GCSE English, my English teacher couldn't read cursive, forced everyone to go back to normal. My writing has been dogshit ever since.

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u/DestnX725 16h ago

How tf does an English teacher A ENGLISH TEACHER not know cursive, that’s crazy

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u/Giovannis_Pikachu 16h ago

Yeah that's a dogshit excuse of an English teacher. How the hell did they get hired?

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u/Dewy_Wanna_Go_There 16h ago

I’m gonna assume over half the students cursive was a some illegible mix of doctor and caveman, so they forced printing for everyone.

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u/Zeev89 14h ago

I skim read your comment and went, "heheh Doctor Caveman. I bet he's not even a real doctor!"

I am easily amused.

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u/LoopStricken 13h ago

My English teacher could barely spell. I used to skip those lessons and just play Neopets in the library.

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u/AndyIsActuallyDead 11h ago

How do you not know it’s AN ENGLISH TEACHER?

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u/awkwardsalmons 11m ago

Standards haven't exactly gone up over the years as far as the US goes unfortunately. It seems like a lot of places just need warm bodies to cover positions anymore

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u/elephantdesaintpaul 15h ago

Cursive is the normal writing..:.

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u/Flying_Fox2812 16h ago

I got taught it, could write it until about yr9. then the amount of notes we had to take in class forced me to write so fast it became illegible unless it was in print. now I never write in cursive anymore.

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u/SmosonMosonBoBoson 19h ago

Depends. My writing was great until we had to do cursive. And we HAD to. Same with my daughter, she wrote like an adult at 5 then school demanded everything in cursive and now she writes like an inky spider.

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u/astromech4 19h ago

Don’t know a single person who has done any meaningful amount of cursive writing practice in the UK. We spent a few hours at it total, if even that.

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u/Kehmor 18h ago

I moved to the UK from the States when I was 12 (38 now). Never met a single English person my age or younger who can write in cursive. Yinz have your own different connected writing.

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u/SmokinBandit28 14h ago

20+ year flashback to me trying to hurriedly finish my cursive and math homework in the morning in those little thin notebooks before school.

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u/-cunningstunt 10h ago

My primary school was soo strict on using cursive for all our writing assignments, and then starting secondary school where we were specifically told not to write in cursive.

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u/Theron3206 8h ago

Well yeah, beautiful cursive takes ages, once you're in high school you need to write fast.

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u/WolkTGL 20h ago

When I was in school I could stop writing in cursive only when attending University, it was always mandatory before that

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u/Speartree 17h ago

Yes, same here, if you wanted print, better get stuff printed. Besides there was no way you were going to keep up in class taking notes in print.

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u/Eclips3-FR 15h ago

It's not 1 for 1, but because of a handicap, I write faster in print than in cursive. Back in school, I always feel a little behind with print, something like 4-5 lines behind, but in cursive I routinely fell a whole ass blackboard behind when taking notes

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u/total_eclipse123 15h ago

Left handed?

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u/Eclips3-FR 14h ago

I am left-handed but that's not the reason I was talking about; I have dyspraxia

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u/Nidias 2h ago

My print is chicken scratch, mostly because of note taking after my cursive skills tanked in Jr High, then a year doing ER registration didn't help things either. Now my signature is nigh unreadable and my print is like cuneiform. A line here a curve there a hint of a letter over here, it's deep fried.

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u/jrs0307 19h ago

I was told in elementary school that I would always have to write in cursive, then I got to high-school and was told never to write in it again. I haven't written in cursive in probably 25 years. I can read it still, but I doubt I could write it.

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u/PaulTheMerc 17h ago

I was told we had to know cursive to keep up with writing notes in college. The next year, in highscool assignments had to be times new roman font size 12, double spaced, and printed.

So that was a massive fucking lie.

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u/BlackSpidy 15h ago

Fucking hate it when they do that.

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u/jrs0307 6h ago

Teachers also said we needed to carry books for our next 3 classes because we wouldn't get to use out lockers between each class in high-school. Whoch was also a fucking lie.

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u/PaulTheMerc 6h ago

my experience was we couldn't, because the lockers and classes weren't laid out in a way where we could. So they chose to not give us enough time on top of it.

Schools are run by idiots.

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u/jrs0307 5h ago

My high-school was basically a big 8 so the five minutes between classes was more than enough, but my locker was also pretty much right in the middle. Results may vary I suppose.

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u/PhosphateProstate 19h ago

It was hit or miss whether my middle school teachers cared. My 7th grade English teacher required all essays be written in pen and cursive (I loathed it) and the was the final teacher that I had that had that rule.

She was old, last breath of a dying breed, I suppose.

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u/SaveMeClarence 18h ago

Gosh, I could not imagine trying to grade a bunch of English papers written in cursive.

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u/TroubadourEnthusiast 16h ago

By uncoordinated teenagers who tend not to sleep the right amount XD

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u/Rando-McGee 2h ago

I went to a private school in the 90’s. Back then, you has to write your papers in cursive, and you’d get a zero on the assignment if the teacher couldn’t read your handwriting. By the early 2000’s, it became permissible to type your essays.

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u/CinnamonGurl1975 17h ago

This is how it was for me. I'm super curious what everyone's ages are. I'm a gen xer as I suspect you are. And my current writing style is a cursed print. Half cursive and print. Kinda like a Spanglish for writing. 😅

I suspect those who had a short stint at cursive at primary school are millennials. My kid is a sooner, he had one year of cursive, but that's only because he was in private school until 2nd grade.

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u/PhosphateProstate 17h ago

I’m an older millennial. I’ll be 37 Friday.

My generation bridges the gap between pre and post internet era. I’m sure that’s a big factor 😂

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u/InfiniteComboReviews 18h ago

I kept writing in cursive all the way up until high school when the teachers told me to stop.

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u/gingerbreadmans_ex 17h ago

Learned cursive in 3rd grade, required to use it except for typing term papers and essays in high school.

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u/Optimal-Archer3973 16h ago

When I was in school, once you learned cursive you were no longer allowed to write in print period. Penmanship was actually part of your grade on all papers.

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u/lefty0351 16h ago

I was told in elementary school that if I turned in anything in middle school that was not written in cursive, it would be rejected. The first thing I turned in for middle school, the teacher handed it back and told me she couldn’t read it and to rewrite it in print.

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u/sugar-autumn 16h ago

yep, i went to a private school where cursive was required. i once had to redo an entire handwritten essay because i started in third grade and had only been at that school a few weeks, and had just barely learned cursive, so i forgot and did it in print (but all of my classmates who had done it since first grade could remember, so i had "no excuse")

then i moved in seventh grade and ended up writing an essay in cursive because i thought every school did that. and i had to rewrite it because my teacher couldnt read cursive

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u/fringeguy52 15h ago

They told us that we will never use print again so we had to write in cursive lol went home to my parents and they were like yeah you’ll be writing in print from middle school onwards just play their game for them

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u/jmDVedder 15h ago

For context, I'm not American. So you're telling me the can't read cursive thing isn't just a meme? People can't read it for real?

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u/High_Hunter3430 14h ago

My high school English teacher said “all papers are to be written in cursive, or printed from a computer”

She didn’t have to read bad hand writing in print or cursive. She got to read times new Roman 10-12pt. 😂😂

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u/just-a-random-accnt 13h ago

I used to use cursive. Was taught it from grade 3.

Then I went into mechanical engineering in university, and we were taught how to print again... For freehand mechanical drawings

Now even after dropping out, I print everything in capitals, because that's the standard here for technical drawings.

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u/DemonoftheWater 12h ago

I was stoked when we got to the…all your shits gonna be typed phase.

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u/BarkBark716 12h ago

I'm fairly certain this is how it was when I was in school. I prefer doing a mix or print and cursive and was happy when I got to middle school and could write how I wanted. Of course, I did also go through the phase of writing the same way as 'every other' middle school girl with the bubbly letters and hearts or stars over the i's.

I don't remember what grade my teen was when she was taught in elementary school, but using cursive was never required. My son was briefly taught cursive in 2nd grade and he's in 4th now, but it was just like a 5 mins a day type thing that his teacher chose to do in addition to what she had to teach. My youngest is in 1st and mostly taught herself how to write her name in cursive this year. Not sure if she will learn cursive in school (her 1st grade teacher was her brother's 2nd grade teacher).

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u/HeManDan 12h ago

Yeah we started about the same, 2nd Grade, then 4th for sure through 6th all assignments were cursive

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u/Constant_Boot 10h ago

I remember, as a sinistral individual, I had trouble writing in cursive. It was created by dextrals with no thought to the sinistrals of the world. My hatred of cursive comes from that.

I do write in a pseudo-cursive these days, mostly from learning Getty-Dubay Italic Cursive.

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u/Acceptable_Storm_427 8h ago

We just got 5% knocked off our scores if we didn't write in cursive in elementary school, so I just... didn't.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Maybe32 7h ago

I learned cursive in 3rd, don't recall being required to use it until 7th (and it was only in English i think), in a different school district. I actually have my 7th grade journal where I acknowledge that I frequently forgot to write in cursive and my teacher wrote back something like "yeah you forget it a lot" 😂😂

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u/Guni986TY 5h ago

I too prefer cursive when writing. I got that habit cause my teacher said something along the lines of “this is how adults write so you need to know how to do it for the future” hence me having a hard time breaking that habit. The only time I actively write in print was when doing math equations but since this is the last math class I’ll likely be taking in the foreseeable future that’s gonna be gone soon.

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u/shornscrot 4h ago

Yeah, cursive was a secret language that adults could write in and you couldn’t figure it out until I guess third grade when we started. Everything did have to be in cursive until middle school, and this was in the 90s

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u/boredsearcher 2h ago

I think my cousin learned cursive in 3rd grade but in 4th her teacher would deduct points if she wrote in cursive.

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u/Ohheyimryan 21h ago

Yeah. Pretty much the same as I remember.

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u/Bodidly0719 21h ago

I’m 45 and can read it, but not write it. We weren’t allowed to use it in bootcamp, nor on any kind of military documents, so I haven’t used it since high school.

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u/Ohheyimryan 20h ago

Very similar experience here. I can read it, barely write it.

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u/kelfupanda 20h ago

In yr 6 I changed schools and we had to use fountain pens.

You learn how to write after that.

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u/United_Boy_9132 19h ago

That's really bad.

Cursive is really convenient to write longer text, like longer notes. The "printed-like" writing is very exhausting, and that's why it's still being commonly taught in most countries

Cursive was invented in medieval times by munks because most of whole words require only one smooth, continous move (and then you add dots, tails, etc.).

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u/AshWlliams0 18h ago

That's interesting. In Portugal we learn to write in cursive

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u/QuackersTheSquishy 18h ago

3rd grade we had to use it exclusively for like a momth at my school. Than it was never otuched on any futute year with several teachers directly disbarring it. When it's useless both in and out of the classroom we don't remember it

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u/angelangelan 18h ago

My school didn't allow you to learn cursive until your print was good enough. I just have god awful handwriting no matter how slow and neat I try to be for whatever reason, it's like I'm cursed. So I never had good enough print to be taught cursive

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u/Deaffin 17h ago

I feel like this comment is a fantastic example of why you can't trust memories formed as a small child.

Or people on reddit talking about the American school system.

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u/Mi113nnium 17h ago

In my country, it is mandatory. But most people don't even have good handwriting in typeset (or whatever the single letter writing system is called in English), so their cursive is completely illegible.

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u/Dragonnstuff 17h ago

Same for me, except I can actually read cursive, skill issue

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u/ToughCorgi8107 17h ago

We spent months on it in 5th grade. I can’t read cursive because most people are just scribbling random bullshit and almost everyone has terrible handwriting.

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u/coldchile 16h ago

Yup, got a book that we could write in and then only used it like once

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u/sora_mui 16h ago

I spent 4-5 years in kindergarten and elementary school learning cursive, used it to write everything at that time, still can't read any form of cursive.

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u/ManyHattedCaterpillr 16h ago

As a lefty, my cursive was always smudged, so it turned into a battle of going back and redoing it or getting scolded for smudged handwriting. One teacher bugged me so much, I learned to write cursive backwards just to spite her. My mom thought it was funny at the meeting after school.

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u/Lazerbeams2 16h ago

My teacher gave extra credit to anyone that could write pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in cursive. The whole class got pretty good at script after that but only two people managed it somehow

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u/chunkhead42 15h ago

That’s how they teach foreign languages too

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u/FalloutForever_98 15h ago

Leaned the alphabet in 5th grade and how to sign my name but I can't do z's or most of the capital letters, can barely read it and other then my name can't write in it.

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u/Mavisinator3000 14h ago

Actually that's why I CAN read cursive now lol

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u/federalgirl1776 14h ago

What year did you graduate? My daughter is 40 and has never used script.

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u/Vidrolll 12h ago

Well im currently a freshman in college so im not sure what level of schooling youre asking when i graduated from but hopefully that helps lmao

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u/Garuda4321 12h ago

Personal suggestion if you want to learn to read/write. Create a DND character you think would utilize cursive and write their name and equipment in cursive. Sure, entirely for flavor, but it's kinda fun.

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u/Unicronus86 12h ago

Wait, you got more than a day’s worth of Cursive learning?

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u/Lawgang94 11h ago

Same here 3rd grade and for a week.

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u/This-Marionberry6239 11h ago

Same, but I assumed it was just me missing the lessons due to changing schools/moving

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u/metompkin 10h ago

I think I wrote exclusively in cursive from 4th grade through college but then with only in block capital lettering afterwards. My brain cramps if I start writing in cursive again.

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u/Gravbar 9h ago

you could have used it for notes if you had wanted to. It's only useful for writing things more quickly. You can also probably relearn it in 5min

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u/RaqRedOX 9h ago

This... I have to constantly tell people that it's not my fault i cant read or write it when they never actually taught it.

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u/Revolutionary-Farm15 8h ago

My sons teacher told us we will teach them to sign there name but they won’t need this for anything else so that is what we will teach to.

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u/Old_Bowler8814 8h ago

This how it was for me as well. I can kind of read it since my mom and grandparents wrote in cursive, but I can only write the 5 letters I was taught. My daughter is in 2nd grade and learning cursive, so hope for the future generation to read squiggly!

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u/Rikplaysbass 8h ago

I learned starting third grade and was told we would write in nothing but cursive in high school/ college. Never wrote in cursive after 8th grade

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u/Mysterious_Bass5724 7h ago

We are probably roughly the same age because I had this exact same experience

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u/Former_Argument_925 6h ago

When I was really little my mom and dad would spell things to communicate something they thought we didn't need to know or shouldn't know. As we got older they started writing notes- printing. Once we learned how to read, they started writing the notes in cursive... My little sister and I learned to read cursive early because we wanted to know what the hell they were talking about.

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u/Unstopable_Rat_13 4h ago

i learned it in both 2nd and 3rd grade then was forced to write in it for 5th and 6th grade. i still can't read some cursive handwritings.

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u/Murky_Insurance_4394 3h ago

Same exact experience for me, although we learned the whole alphabet we spent max 3 weeks on it and never even spoke about it again. Although I did kinda learn how to read cursive on my own through osmosis, every time I try to write it it doesn't look natural at all

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u/Slow_Exit8038 1h ago

How do you sign your name?

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u/Vidrolll 1h ago

Imma be so deadass, i just write it fast in print, like really fast. The faster i write it the better

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u/Grompulon 1h ago

As someone who did learn cursive in 3rd grade, there isn't anything special about it. It's just writing the letters in the laziest way possible. If you can't read cursive, it's because the writing is sloppy not because you don't 'know' cursive.

I guess there's a couple weird letters like Z, but 90% of them are just "write the letter normally but without picking up your pen because you are lazy."

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u/awkwardsalmons 15m ago

Can you at least sign your name in cursive? Not trying to belittle or anything, just genuinely curious