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I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned.
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What's the advantage though? What benefits does this have besides being able to read book covers written by people out of touch with their audience?
It's faster to write
You know what's faster? Taka Taka on my keyboard.
Fair point, but if you're worrying about speed more than anything else, you're probably writing quite a bit and you're more than likely taking notes of some sort.
The motor skills involved in writing things down by hand seems to aid memory more than typing it out does. Taka taka's fun, faster, and not nearly as wasteful, but I'm choosing to stick with my 9,000 pens for retention
My RSI will take taka taka any day.
To start, I’m pro teaching/learning cursive. To respond, my brain barely works fast enough to have letters for print, speeding up the writing isn’t the bottleneck.
Signatures, not so much.
Lots of completely illegible signatures out there lol
Why would you want to
Plenty of verified print versions floating out there
If I'm paying someone 100$/minute, they'd better be able to write in print upon request
Every lawyer I've worked with has used email for everything.
You could have your doctored and not be able to read my signature.
I use it when writing text along side math or diagrams, to differentiate it. I write cursive notes and use print to add emphasis. It's also much easier to write legibly at a higher speed, which I'll admit was more important before we typed as much as we do now. My cursive is at least as legible as my printing.
The advantage of learning it is being able to read when other people write with it.
I’m not saying it’s common, but it’s not hard to learn to read and I’m sure you will come across it at some point.
They can write legibly if they want me to read what they write.
It’s not that someone is going to write something they want you to read.
It’s more about someone wrote something and by chance you want to read it. The only problem is that it’s in cursive, you can’t.
For you personally? Probably not much. For us as a society? Well, being able to read our laws and history in their original form is pretty important.
Not really, they've been transcribed and the people who need to be able to read the originals can learn just like people learn Latin if they need it, not as a mandatory language in school.
Transcriptions are easy to alter. Kids learn reading and writing, and language in general much faster than adults. You can spend an hour a day for a few months with a kid and they'll have it down pat.
You really think people are gonna go down to the basement in DC and reason.the original documents and failure to read those is how we lose our rights? Stuff like the patriot act are bigger threats
Future legislatures will. I don't like the idea of nobody in our government being able to read our laws in a generation.
Average people can view the original Constitution when taking a tour, and it's pretty neat to be able to read the original. Like a lot of things in education, knowing them won't necessarily be very useful, but they can provide for a richer, more fulfilling life.
It's easy to learn cursive and compare if you're that paranoid about it (although being extremely good at reading cursive doesn't guarantee you'll be able to read all documents written in cursive), it doesn't mean everyone needs to learn it.
Since when did you have access to the original writing of some law? If you want to find out a law today, you go on a government website.
z doesn't look like that in cursive, nor do most of the capital listed you listed Better to just post an image of the correct versions
That is how z looks in cursive.
They're the same thing.
I literally linked to an image showing exactly what it should look like.
That's just a different font.
I hope you know what fonts are.
Edit. Apparently not, lol
That’s the only “font” taught as cursive to Americans. I’ve never seen anything like yours referred to as cursive
Well I'm pretty sure you don't, since handwriting doesn't have "fonts".
Stay in school, kids.
I am so tired of Americans like you thinking that the whole world revolves around them.
That moment when you find out fonts are older than the printing press.