[lbo-talk] The death of cursive

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 09:23:48 PDT 2011


At the university I switched my handwriting from cursive to print, and haven´t looked back.

Cursive just seemed cumbersome and slowed me down, go figure. Not to mention more difficult to read. But then, I´ve spent my life in front of computer screens and qwerty keyboards since 1984...

Good to know, after reading this, that I´m not the only one:

---- Writing in script is slower, messier, harder to read, and rare. What percent of the population writes in script? I doubt that it is very high. I can't remember the last note I received in "cursive" writing.

With typing now the norm rather than the exception, print handwriting will be forever dominant over script. Gone are the days when z's look like y's or when n's and m's are barely distinguishable. ---- http://www.spectacle.org/298/auren.html

And it was written in ´98!

FC

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:34 AM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Apparently with all the prep needed for standardized tests, there is no need for students to learn cursive writing.



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