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What the font!?

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Shared on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 09:03

Last night I was watching an instructional video from the mid eighties and noticed something I hadn't seen in a while.  The speaker was in a small conference room and had a blackboard behind him he would use to write out key words and such.  It wasn't the polyester fashions or the sea of Dorthy Hamil hair cuts that struck my attention, it was when the speaker turned to the chalkboard and started writing......in cursive!

I haven't seen anyone write in cursive in years.  In this modern age of computers and phone texting, I'm not sure I can even remember how to write in cursive anymore. As I look around my desk, all the little post it notes and hand written memos are all written in standard type.  So is cursive dead?  Do they still even teach it in elementary school anymore?  It seems like typing classes would be more useful.  The real question is why did we ever start writing that way in the first place?  What good reason is there to have to learn to write the same language in two different ways?  English is hard enough without complicating it further.

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Caesar's picture
Submitted by Caesar on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 09:10
i still write in cursive, not at work though at work it all has to be printed.
Banjocut's picture
Submitted by Banjocut on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 09:19
I try not to use cursive, as I can't read my own writing when I do.
Automan21k's picture
Submitted by Automan21k on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 09:28
I dont' think I could write it anymore either.....except signing my name....which looks like a little scribble anyway....
Big0ne's picture
Submitted by Big0ne on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 09:38
I'm the same Auto. I do use "cursive" for my signature but it's really more a quick scribble that looks like something a doctor would use.
Snuphy's picture
Submitted by Snuphy on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:14
My third grader just learned cursive. Everything she writes for school has to be in cursive. Like you, it's the first cursive I've seen probably since HS. I gave it a try. Felt like I was writing with the wrong hand.
Stridog's picture
Submitted by Stridog on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:33
I still write in cursive. My handwriting is much neater in cursive than in print
Caesar's picture
Submitted by Caesar on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:35
i think part of the problem what do we really hand write anymore? i mean 99% of what i do is on the pc, i mean i send emails not write letters, i pay my bills electronically so i mean really the only thing left is signing stuff that you buy lol.
dkhodz's picture
Submitted by dkhodz on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:48
I speak in cursive when I'm mad.
MikeTheKnife's picture
Submitted by MikeTheKnife on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:59
I use it when I have to write fast and then I end up struggling to read it.

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