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This article over on Hack-A-Day seemed like it would appeal here. It discusses how the physical aspects of a cheap ballpoint pen are just less well suited to cursive writing as compared to a fountain pen. Enjoy!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eh. I graduated in 07, and literally the only time I've ever used cursive was when I was made to. Cursive itself seemed kinda pointless, as every year I was taught cursive, I was told "it won't be required this year, but they won't take your work unless it's in cursive next year". Then, next year, they said the same thing, and again and again, and tomorrow never came. At some point it just felt like this vestigial organ, especially as it becomes more and more apparent that anything important was going to happen in print (tests, government forms, emails, etc etc). And we didn't have laptops in our classrooms. So, from my point of view, it's more that it's utterly obsolete than it is to do with computers invading the classroom.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Things happen at different paces in different places, and I am about a decadeish older than you, but the broader trend has just been that long form writing will be done on some sort of keyboard, so the purpose that cursive exists to serve mattered less and less. Your experience was a bit different, but I don't know that we're describing completely different trends, neither of which has anything to do with the poor innocent ballpoints, LOL.