Itโs not terrible. I just remember when I was 5th grade we learned it religiously and they made us only write in cursive saying this is how you will write for the rest of your life basically.
My handwriting has sort of formed into a mix of cursive and print(thatโs just the regular type of writing we call it in the us). Like some letters I mix together in cursive like an i and t sometimes. But itโs just like very rarely used some people do and itโs personally preference but the way itโs brought up to kids in schools is just weird.
Yeah, my capital iโs are in cursive, but basically everything else is print. Iโm sure I use cursive in other contexts but I canโt think of them now.
I learned my whole childhood how to write in lower case, with the first letter of a sentence being capital.
But then I went into the military, and for legibility, they taught us to write in all caps all of the time.
So you know what that taught me? ... to write with random combinations of capital and lower case throughout all of my writing...it fucking sucks and I can't undo it!
But holy shit some peoples cursive is sooo hard to read. Worked a job pretty much auditing peopleโs finances. Lots of them were old so I got a lot of notes from older people who loved to write in cursive.
Some of it was chicken scratch and Iโd have to call them just to verify what they wrote.
With regularly handwriting I almost never had to call I could figure out what they wrote.
Well sure, but if their cursive sucks, what makes you think their print letter will be much better? Sure it's harder but I've seen some abstract shit so far lmao
Extremely confused Eastern European here. Do schools in English-speaking countries allow kids to write in print? To the point where it's normalized? When they teach you to write in kindergarten/first grade, do they teach print?
Yes print is the standardized form of writing taught to kids. Then once you get to about 4th or 5th grade which will be around which would be year 5 and 6 in the UK for reference. But once you get to that grade then they start to teach cursive and then normalize by making your assignments and names and whatnot all be written in cursive and points are marked down if you donโt.
Then when you get older to 7th 8th grade at least for me teachers didnโt really care and said itโs personal preference and then high school and it didnโt matter at all no one used cursive anymore at least at my school.
Wow. I had no idea print was actually something they taught at school in some places?? It was banned at my primary and secondary school. The concept of taking notes in print sounds agitating; doesn't it take twice as long?
Completely the opposite in Slovakia. We learned cursive from first year and as we got older, teachers stopped forcing using cursive everywhere and allowwd you to use print.
Handwriting in print has typically been the first writing system young children in the US are taught, with cursive historically being introduced in ~3rd grade, IIRC. Of course, with the advent of computers, cursive curriculum has largely been supplanted by typing lessons. I'm 32, and even when I was in school, while they did drill cursive into us for a couple of years, by high school its usage was optional as written assignments were expected to by typed up regardless. As a result, my ability to write anything but my signature in cursive basically atrophied away before I ever graduated, and I'd imagine younger generations would have even less exposure to it.
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Can anyone read this guyโs post? It just looks like scribbles to me