Do you write in cursive?

[Cant trust em]

I'm going through some notes that a staff member at my work took. She writes in cursive and I can barely read it. Do you use it?

[rcrush]

1. As soon as people stopped making me do it I stopped

Its all scribble scrabble! You cant make up chicken scratch and call it words!

[IcyPeas]

2. I've heard they are not teaching it anymore.

Kids (and adults for that matter) use keyboards so much now that cursive is becoming obsolete. I can't even imagine that.

[virgogal]

21. I have some things with my late mother's handwriting on

on them.

Makes me feel sad and close to her at the same time.

[Rambis]

3. I can't do it anymore

Stopped long ago- I don't write anything anymore. It is all keyboard strokes and initials so they know who to sack if I got it wrong.

[Dogtown]

4. Option 3:

I've got a keyboard, you fucking Luddite.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. .

:thumbsup:
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Actually, though... good question. I've never been a "good" cursive writer,
though my printing is (was) exceptional.
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So, for decades, the ONLY thing I used cursive for was my signature.
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Yours truly,
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P.S. Printing made it REALLY hard to take notes in class -- slow, laborious
process AND I'm left-handed -- many CRAMPS.
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[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Other. Yes, but it's somewhat less-than-beautiful

:rofl:

I shoulda been a doctor

edit to add: I keep a pen and pad of paper in the car, in case I have to write something down when I'm driving. I refuse to text-and-drive, it's dangerous.

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

10. +1

Beautiful it ain't, but it's the fastest way to write.
:rofl:

[Brickbat]

6. Mr. Brickbat prints everything in all upper-case letters. I have a letter from him that kicked off

our long-distance relationship and as soon as I opened it I knew it was special because it was written in upper- and lower-case letters. It looks like an 11-year-old wrote it. It's awesome.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. like this?

[Deep13]

9. Goddamn right I use fucking cursive. ...

Hmmm. That's not what "cursive" means, is it? :dunce:

[mitchum]

11. A mongrel combination of cursive and printing

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I use a hybrid, though I'd say it's heavily weighted on the cursive side.

[carlyhippy]

13. option 4 half and half

I print some words and cursive the others. It looks nicer if I print, if I am in a rush I cursive, and it is some sloppy handwriting going on there.

[Bossy Monkey]

14. No, not in decades, and I can barely sign my name now.

My career prospects as a forger are very limited.:)

[Bucky]

15. It's important, if you write in cursive,

to  do  so  legibly.

Otherwise, folks are apt to think

you're  just  being  a  show  off.

[Captain Hilts]

16. I print out of courtesy. Even on college exams, because most cursive is too hard to read. nt

[miscsoc]

17. Yes, but it's not beautiful

It's small and frantic and spidery.

[Xithras]

18. I write in chickenscratch.

It's a barely recognizeable collection of lines and loops that can only be accurately deciphered by myself. My handwriting was terrible in the third grade, and it's only gone downhill since.

My parents bought me my first secondhand computer when I was in elementary school (uber-rare in the early 80's), primarily because they were tired of seeing me bring home F's on assignments simply because my teachers couldn't read my answers.

My TRS/80 and Wordstar saved me from flunking the fourth grade.

[elocs]

19. Other than my signature I gave it up years and years ago.

Yes, the point of writing is to communicate something and if it cannot be read or deciphered then the process is really a failure. I print and it is unique and it can be easily read.

Years ago I had a job that required us to write down all the letters of the alphabet in cursive and in print and I had to ask how some of the cursive were written because it had been so many years since I had used it. One of them was the uppercase "Q" because I had no idea how to write it in cursive.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. I grew up in the days when cursive was considered grown-ups' writing

We little kids could hardly wait to learn it. I mostly type on the computer now, but I prefer to do creative writing in cursive.

[liberaltrucker]

22. Only for an official signature

Like the 2-3 checks a year, my 1040, driver's license, etc.

looks like a doctors sig, except I ain't making the $$

:rofl:

[azmouse]

23. Sorta 1/2 & 1/2

I'm creative. :P

[kimi]

24. I'm of the generation where we learned cursive in about the 3rd or 4th grade

Now, my kids learn to write on computers, and I saw my son sign his name the other day on some document or other, and it was AWFUL!! I was shocked. It was like he didn't know how to write at all, and he's 17! He wrote slow and sloppily, and I guess it was part cursive, and part printing, and I thought he was either having a seizure or has some kind of fine muscle control problem, cause it was practically unreadable. Just terrible. Then he answered a text on his cell phone, and he just zipped off an answer on that like lightning. No, it wasn't a muscular issue, he just CAN'T write anymore. Terrible.

[LisaM]

25. I do, but it's readable

What makes hers unreadable?

[Cant trust em]

26. The letters aren't defined enough.

They just kinda flow into one another.

[Xipe Totec]

27. Other - Yes, I write in cursive and it's horrible

I curse my caligraphy.

[Lucian]

28. I take notes in class in cursive.

I'm probably the only one on campus that does.

[nickinSTL]

29. sort of

when I write for myself, my writing tends to be a combination of print and cursive - how I write each letter, each word depends on what is easiest for me at the time

If I'm writing for others to read, I tend to print, as it seems clearer.

[Odin2005]

30. Only for my signature. I'm too much of a klutz otherwise.

[Pharlo]

31. For work, I print in upper case.

For my personal use, I use cursive. Both are neat and legible. Notes in school were always in cursive. I got in the habit of printing at work on my last job where there were quite a few non-English speakers. They seemed to have less trouble with simple messages that were printed rather than written. It's a habit now. Hell, the people I work with have no idea what my cursive writing looks like - other than a signature.

[REP]

32. Daily. I have beautiful handwriting, or so I'm told

I've been practicing since I was a brat; I find it relaxing. I can do several hands; my natural hand is a Spencerian/Unical hybrid that is quite readable.

[JonLP24]

33. A middle school I attended for a year

made us write in cursive on most assignments throughout the entire campus.

[triguy46]

34. A mixture of some printing, some scribbles, loops and slashes.

I've had doctors complain to me about my handwriting. My wife can kind of read it. I do pretty good if it is not more than a day or two old.

[Roon]

35. Only when I am cutting a check..

but not other than that.

[MrSlayer]

36. Only when I have to sign something.

Otherwise I print.

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. I write in a cursive/print hybrid.

[realisticphish]

38. Hell no; the GRE was a goddamned nightmare

they make you copy out this whole paragraph "in your own handwriting" and they say it "can't be in print." Fuck you, test, my hand writing is print, and always has been.

It looked like a third-grader filled out that part of the test. I actually had to stop in the middle of words and try to remember how to do certain letters