Me being European who wasn't taught to not write in cursive:
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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why do people bitch about this so much? is it an American thing? it's just an alternate form of writing and it's barely different from normal writing. like you only need to remember what k, r, s and z look like.
I'm sorry if you barely cleared what passes as literacy and are bitching about learning anything beyond you might as well be illiterate. what's next? i learned lowercase letters for no reason, i could've been communicating through all caps the whole time.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is an American thing. As to why, well, you said it: "bitching about learning anything beyond you might as well be illiterate".
Everyone gets so worked up about cursive writing. So you were taught to make writing more efficient. You were taught to make your writing beautiful. Real tragedy.
I still write in cursive because it's easier and looks nicer. And if you can't read it, I am gonna judge you.
"More efficient" script that only the writer can read
It's absolutely not more beautiful, and it's a pain in the ass to both read and write. Some of us have ugly writing in general despite years of practice and on top of that I hate writing with a pen or pencil period.
Know what's even more efficient than that cursed writing style?
A god damn computer. Anything more than a few sentences should by typed out.
Idk, I have been writing in cursive for so long that writing anything else feels weird. Cursive just has a neat flow to it
If your hand writing is shit don't complain that others have good handwriting and are fast at it.
I write in cursive and I have people ask me to read what I wrote.
I'm trilingual, so I figure I might have accidentally written it in Ukrainian cursive, but it's English, so I look up like:
"You just have really bad handwriting"
There's a thing that I sometimes think about. I write in cursive by default and live in Japan.
Me being Latvian, chances are that that I'm the first Latvian person that someone has encountered. The question is: how many people thought that I wrote something in weird Latvian script and not just English in cursive?
Also to be able to read historical documents.
I dread the day when people won't be able to read cursive because, I guess, they hate to learn? I have chronic pain in my wrist and arm and it's the least painful way to write by far.
I know a few teachers who use cursive when they have students take notes to other teachers. That way the students can't read them
I had to go to special cursive classes during recess for three years. Fuck cursive.
Three years?? I only got a week's worth of homework for an entire school year for cursive. It sucked because I had to finish the whole thing during school break and the teacher never checked it but at least it wasn't three years' worth! lol
looks nicer
Calligraphy is a better, more legible, option.
And we'll judge you if you use cursive.
Judge away, but my chalk signs are ✨fabulous✨ and you can't read them. Neener-neener.
Man... people can barely read my writing when I don't use cursive. Might as well be scribbles on the page if I use cursive. I learned to write with a half-cast on my writing hand though, so it was a rough go of it in general.
cursive is less legible
I went further and taught myself a few forms of calligraphy. I played with the fountain pen and then bought lots of ink and stuff. Great way to zone out.
It was funny when we used to be in the office to sign a farewell card and I would do it fancy.
Sorry that you had to use 10% of your power to learn cursive, Shaggy
Missed opportunity to write that sign in cursive.
But that would mean he learned it with a reason
i purchased my first condo in 2010 - this was before digital signing was common. i went to the notary to sign all of the paperwork, and after my first (of a fuckton) of signatures, the notary looked at my signature, crumpled up the paper, printed a new copy, and said "you need to have a signature in cursive"
i told him my signature was how i signed that first paper, and he said he couldnt notarize it, so i need to use my "real" signature.
so that condo had strange signatures on its paperwork that kept changing as i attempted to find a good cursive signature throughout the process.
1/10
And, depending on your municipality, you might be able to refute those signatures if your signature at the bank was your actual signature, and it won't even matter that they were notarized. I'm not saying you'll have a reason, but it might be an option if you needed it.
I like cursive. I use it when I ship people cookies or canned foods. Makes the letters look nice and clean, and I get compliments!
Techically, you don't even need to write.
People need to stop to label everything they don't understand as useless. It only hightlights their ignorance.
You need to still write in 2025. You don't need to use cursive.
It’s to evaluate and develop your fine motor skill development. Yeah we technically don’t need it as a writing method but it has other uses.
gotta wonder what his signature looks like