this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I do use cursive at work, but only to read wicked old documents. And lemme tell you 1800s court document cursive is not the same as what I was taught in school. Similar, but there are places it will trip you up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Signing forms is kind of a requirement in most cases. Though I K kw a lot of Der peoe just do some sort of squiggle that looks nothing like cursive or letters.

Edit: Just looking at what I typed and holy shit, what the fuck. Proofread your posts, kids.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Funny enough, there was an op-ed from a professor lamenting the fact that younger generations can't read cursives. He worried that the current generation will become future historians who may not be able to read them.

Might as well lament not being able to write and read cuneiforms or oghams by the masses is what I thought to myself. If cursive writing becomes obsolete and relic of history, so be it. Historians specialise reading ancient texts so the same expectations should be applied to future historians to specialise reading cursives, if they are so interested.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Right, it's not like someone who becomes a historian can't easily learn how to read cursive. It's not exactly rocket science.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Where did he find the motivation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I can barely even address a letter without my hand cramping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

But more seriously, I find writing things down on a piece of paper so much better and serious than taking notes digitally.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I never even used it when I was I school. You can read my printing, not my cursive

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