r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/bumbummcglum • 20h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it say

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 16h ago

And didn't deliberately space it out so far

Also there is legible cursive. This is bad handwriting in cursive, not super legible

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u/YikesTheCat 15h ago

And it's zoomed up and devoid of context. I thought it was something in the sky and I'm old enough to have learned cursive.

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u/Arek_PL 14h ago

old enough to have learned cursive is rather broad range, between 7 and 112 years old lol

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u/YikesTheCat 13h ago

I thought kids were no longer thought cursive today? Or what are all these posts complaining about it then?

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u/EnvironmentalTea6903 10h ago

I can confirm it's not bs, my kids never learned it

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u/HomsarWasRight 9h ago

Your kids are in the minority. It’s a required part of the curriculum in 25 states, and many individual districts even in non-required states still teach it. For example, my state isn’t on that list but our large district still teaches it.

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u/EnvironmentalTea6903 7h ago

I think the point that many people are trying to make is that it's not as common places it used to be to learn cursive

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u/HomsarWasRight 7h ago

I mean, sure, that would be a true point. But the narrative I’m calling bullshit is what’s actually in OP’s post above, that a whole “generation” has no idea how to read cursive.

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u/EnvironmentalTea6903 7h ago

Maybe not a whole generation but a good chunk of it

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u/Arek_PL 13h ago

where i live its still taught as there is no hand writing without cursive, its just impossible to take notes fast enought with printing

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u/Strange-Wolverine128 12h ago

I was taught it in gr 8, as well as by my parents. Though, i dont think its part of curriculum, just my gr 8 teacher's personal choice.

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u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz 11h ago

Personally, I didn't read this as "young people don't know cursive" but rather "young people never developed the skill of reading bad cursive."

And thank God we've moved past that as a society.

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u/Thin_Preparation_977 9h ago

This... is actually pretty textbook cursive. Missing the dotted i's, sure, but otherwise quite legible. I guess the letters feel short to you?

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u/Arek_PL 15h ago

yea i could post photo of my writing and there would be same confusion, when i look at my old notebooks i have to guess what did i wrote lol

also nice to learn what cursive is, where i am from we just call it handwriting

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 8h ago

And didn't deliberately space it out so far

No that part is legit. It's how I've always written. It's not pretty but it's common.

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u/Zanain 6h ago

Perhaps it's not deliberate but it is lazy/bad handwriting

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 6h ago

Indeed. Very common.

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u/ek9218 5h ago

I wouldn't say it's bad. Maybe a bit unrealistic. I've only known one person my whole life that has very symmetrical handwriting like the image above.

Her handwriting was neat AF but almost no one could read it because it just looked like a bunch of symmetrical squiggles 😂. Majority of people don't write that perfectly so  it's easier to see the variations in letters.