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the point of cursive is to be able to sign your name and nothing else so I don't know why they make you write essays in 2nd grade since you only use it to sign your name in reality. Print is just more common and soon typing might even take over writing! Who knows what the future brings, lol
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You know cursive is used for signatures?
Which you need to sign important papers throughout your life so no one else can forge your signature. That's why doctors signatures are messy, so no one can forge prescription papers. When you sign papers to get a job, you want to know cursive to sign your name, so it DOESN'T look messy. People subconsciously think negatively when they see messy handwriting. |
They really don't force people to relearn how to write, they just teach them another way to write. You really don't need cursive, they say you do but you don't. Only thing you really need to know how to do is sign your name. Otherwise more people need to know how to type on the computer now than do cursive..
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I LOVE cursive! I write it better than just print. I like to think both are very readable when I write. People have told me that my handwriting is really great. I say I get my great cursive from my mother. Because she has very pretty handwriting. Sometimes I like to combine cursive and print together, it depends. I don't like writing cursive lowercase b's, I don't know why. They're just annoying, heh. But other than that, cursive is probably the one I use the most when I'm writing down notes or a letter or something. I see nothing wrong with being taught it. I'm glad I was!
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I tend to write in a mix of cursive and printing. I think it may in part have to do with my left-handedness. It's impossible for me to write quickly and still be able to read it. my hand gets tired twice as quickly... I imagine, at least, although with my right hand it seems to be able to last longer...
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For me, cursive is much more fun to write because it's faster and in college, you really can't waste any time writing print letters. :XD It's easier to write cursive because you don't have to lift the pen between every letter. I only use print if I need to write something in all capitals. Like the text in comics or the title of a new lesson chapter.
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I believe the point of cursive is to quicken handwriting. You don't have to lift up your writing utensil if you're writing cursive, and I guess that could save you some time.
Also, some types of cursive is elegant. You could use that for formal occasions. ...Although I really believe that cursive is used just to shorten the time it takes to write something. |
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Well, the only person I know who writes faster than I do writes illegibly, uses a mix of three languages (he writes exactly what he thinks) and shortens every word he can shorten. So I guess it depends on who's writing :XP
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Think of it as formatting your post on paper. *snort*
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I think I heard that cursive writing was evolved over time based off of the Celtic way of writing. If you look at their letters you can see that the letters can be made to join. Guess it wasn't a huge leap from that point to say hey! lets really mess people over and enforce the use of this style!
Some people.:roll: I use a mixed style of cursive and print when I write and when I sign my signature some people (the lady at the drivers lisense place) get outright irate over it. I'm sorry but everyones handwiring changes and the way I write is just a habit. But I always try to make my writing legible to others and it is. My left handed slant tends to give a few people a problem so I don't know if people are made because of left handed or because they just can't stand my handwriting. I like cursive and think that being able to do it good is a lost art form. But thats just me and I don't expect anyone else to like doing it. So I agree with you, I've seen some monstrous cursive handwriting out there and think that theres too much concentration on that particular style for most people. I say let the handwriting form on it's own with proper printing. If the person shows a curiosity for cursive then teach them. |
i hate cursive...I don't use it anymore, unless signing something. Even then I have perfected the scribble siggy! College I use my lappy if I take notes. Cursive take me longer since I totally forget how to make some of the letters xD
Taking the SATs was painful, we had to write this one part in cursive. My was an epic fail as was everyone elses |
I used to write in cursive but I stopped because it was slower for me and I thought it was messier.:sweat:
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I only use cursive when I have to, like writing checks and such, otherwise, it's print. Printing is less stressful on my hand for long periods of time.
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Lmao.I dun like the way I write in cursive. I remember learning it, and it sucked.xD My teacher would always complain that my j's and f's didn't look right. So she made me write em like 10 times each on da board. :/ And in 6th grade, I got annoyed when I got a teacher who would ONLY accept papers and everything else in cursive. If you didn't type or if you wrote in print, she would phail you or be nice and make you do da assignment over. D< Plus, she wanted everyone to use the erasable pens? And I didn't like those either because Imma leftie and it caused me to have ink smeared on my hand and have hard to read cursive. .__.;//ranting
But I just wanna learn how to make a decent signature in cursive.:sarcasm: |
hehe, I remember learning cursive, only one grade and then it went out the window. Only once in high school did I ever see someone write nearly all assignments in cursive, it was beautiful too.
here's something, we were taking the SAT (if I remember correctly) and there was one portion where we were supposed to copy a passage saying that it was all confidential, we wouldn't cheat Blahblahblah, but we had to copy it down in cursive before we signed it. that was the hardest part of the whole test, we couldn't remember half of the letters, it was a very sad day. also made me wonder why it was required to be in cursive rather than regular print... |
You know, there are a lot things that don't make any sense. Yet we do them anyways. There's no sense in running anymore. Should we still do that?
I still think cursive is important because it allows you to have a signature. It would be a lot easier for people to sign your name if it was just printed. Personally cursive is faster for me so you can't just use that as an argument because it is better for some and worse for others. It is a matter of preference. |
It's good to know how to do it, but I do agree that (a large percentage of the time) the way they present to us as "essential" is nothing but a load of bollocks. I remember my second and third grade teachers swearing up and down that we'd use cursive for every single paper we wrote from sixth grade until the end of college, but I'm now nineteen years old, long-since out of high school, and I don't recall having to write in cursive at any point in time after fifth grade. Nowadays, the only thing I use it for is to sign my name on something and you can't even tell what my name is from that. A lot of the previous posters are right when they say that's it's mostly used to increase writing speed (since you don't have to pick up your pencil/pen between letters), but that's not always true for everyone. I'm somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to using cursive (except for signing my name) and it can take me three times as long to write a paragraph in it than it would take for me to do the same thing in print. My writing may look less "professional" than that of someone who insists upon writing in cursive, but at least mine is always legible. You don't have to try and guess what my paper's about. XD So, in short, I think that they SHOULD teach cursive to kids, but they don't need to lie about it. It's better to be honest and just say, "well, chances are you'll never have to use this again, but you should learn it anyway." |
I remember learning how to write in cursive... and I was ok at it and when I try to do it now it looks HORRIBLE... and I've forgotten like half of the letters anyway XD... but I don't think they make it mandatory to learn around here anymore >_> ...
when I write it's a mix of print and cursive lol ... some people can't read it XD... but cursive can be beautiful handwriting and to me it seems like one of those things people teach others just for the sake of passing on something from the past and maybe for some other reason like teaching patience and steady of hand or whatever xD *shrugs* I like seeing/reading cursive writing, but I don't use it myself |
It doesn't really matter to me. I tend to print simply because it is easier to decipher than my cursive. I have handwriting that would make a doctor jealous.
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Ah, cursive used to be something that made my handwriting look pretty. But since I started college a few years ago, my handwriting got more and more sloppy to keep up with the pace I needed to keep notes. I write in print, because I can actually read it that way (even if it is sloppy), but I can't even read my own cursive anymore. I suppose the point of it to be cultured. And some people still prefer to write in cursive as they feel that they can do it faster. |
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