Cursive

[Sole]

I honestly don't know what I use to write. Its like a hybrid of print/cursive/wtf. But I can read it and that's what counts I guess?

I avoid writing like the plague because I'm left handed, that shit smears, and I always have a laptop. If I absolutely HAVE to write something its all print and caps, cept it looks like my hand was hijacked by a chicken with parkinson's.

[Designz]

The problem with hybrid cursive is you have to stop your motion. With full cursive, it feels amazing. Once you see that simple swings of your wrist can write great looking words, then you're hooked.

[Morphyous]

I don't really think that cursive is any faster than just printing. I mean I still use cursive parts for say the last parts of words because it's efficient, but other than that cursive seems inconvenient to me.

[Eomer]

Originally Posted by Morphyous

I don't really think that cursive is any faster than just printing. I mean I still use cursive parts for say the last parts of words because it's efficient, but other than that cursive seems inconvenient to me.

You are crazy if you don't think cursive is several times faster than printing.

[Northerner]

It all depends on how you print. I am personally much faster at hybrid printing than at straight cursive and for years of scrawling notes it has served me well. I link up certain letter combinations but that's it.

[ValkyrieIsAboutToDie]

I was taught cursive in 3rd grade and used it off-and-on until around 8th grade, when I switched to the style of writing in my picture below. This thread is very surprising -- I didn't know cursive had so much support. But can't say I've seen anyone write with it in about 5 years. To each their own though.

[Etoille]

Originally Posted by Sole

I honestly don't know what I use to write. Its like a hybrid of print/cursive/wtf. But I can read it and that's what counts I guess?

I avoid writing like the plague because I'm left handed, that shit smears, and I always have a laptop. If I absolutely HAVE to write something its all print and caps, cept it looks like my hand was hijacked by a chicken with parkinson's.

Uniball vision elite.

You'll never go back. Shit will not smear.

<-----Lefty who has successfully convinced last two employers to shell out the 20 bucks a box because it doesn't smear and at least half the box gets hijacked by people (righties too) that are like WTF these are awesome!

[Fyro]

I am also in the print-cursive-wtf category in my writing for my classes. I am almost through college now and I don`t have a laptop so I write my notes for every class old school style. I really don`t have a problem with speed and I feel that more important things could be taught to the kids instead of cursive. The only problems I run into is that no one can read my handwriting, and even sometimes I have problems with reading it. One fucking teacher actually threw out a test of mine because he couldn`t read my `hieroglyphics` he said, what an ass.

[thenipple2000]

Originally Posted by Fyro

One fucking teacher actually threw out a test of mine because he couldn`t read my `hieroglyphics` he said, what an ass.

WTF do you expect him to do? You even admitted you can't read your own handwriting sometimes. Is he supposed to track you down and ask you what you wrote here and there? F that noise.

Stop writing in chicken scratch = problem solved.

[Angerz]

Originally Posted by Etoille

Uniball vision elite.

You'll never go back. Shit will not smear.

First, the micro version of that pen is amazing.

Second, I don't write that much, most of what I do during a day at work, I log into a computer.

When I do put pen to paper, I tend to write in all caps looking letters, just making them bigger for "true" capitals. If I remember correctly, I learned to write that way in a woodshop class in middle school when the teacher made us write that way for maximum legibility on our plans.

[Elurin]

One of my professors was writing in cursive today, and all I could think of was this thread. She normally writes in print, not sure what happened, but HOLY FUCK was it impossible to read. Cursive sucks.

[cosmic_cs]

Originally Posted by Elurin

Cursive sucks.

No, your professor's cursive sucks. Cursive does not suck.

[Lenardo]

by the time my 7yr old graduates from high school, cursive will be essentially gone from all society for general use.

1. typing on computer= faster than writing cursive
2. no regulated way of teaching it
3. and this one is the biggie- all legal documents are printed now- this was not the case 100 years ago, but it is now. examples

REALLY old Legal Cursive (1707)

http://salemdeeds.com/%5Chistoric/00020/0023.tif


current legal document
http://salemdeeds.com/mtifs/2009/03/13/00021.tif

i just grabbed 2 from random

wish i could get online the deeds from ~1840 those are freaking beautifully written.. from 1850-1900ish the writing in the east went down hill because all the scribner's went west...


for the record, i print everything.

[Elurin]

Originally Posted by Lenardo

REALLY old Legal Cursive (1707)

http://salemdeeds.com/%5Chistoric/00020/0023.tif

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm having a pretty hard time reading that shit. The first line reads:

"Prenoidea to him of abouis? William Rogers his gibberish executors noidea for"

May as well be in Sanskrit.

[Zeste]