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by Old Tyrannia » Sat Nov 10, 2018 7:48 am
Aellex wrote:Page wrote:
I'm originally from Florida and every person under 30 I've ever met only writes in print.
Guess it might just be cultural then. The only thing I've seen people ever write in print was their family name and it's because it's a convention to make sure people don't mistake a letter reading it.
by Saiwania » Sat Nov 10, 2018 7:52 am
by Altion » Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:09 am
Saiwania wrote:Hell yes people should learn cursive. Although writing cursive letters or documents isn't important anymore for the most part. People very rarely do this in the digital age. It is only truly important to write your signature. The people who're too lazy to write a legible signature and just make an illegible scribble, that pisses me off. I can't be the only one who minds.
I think cursive can be taught in just one week or a few days at most. In only one or two afternoons if not going in depth. You only need to know how to write your name to sign legal documents or so forth.
Old Tyrannia wrote:Cursive is the proper way to write English. It's both a more efficient way of writing and more aesthetically pleasing than block print. I always write in cursive, and whilst my regular script is pretty unintelligible to anyone who isn't me I can write very clearly whilst still joining the letters if what I'm writing has to be understood by others. Removing it from the curriculum seems to me to be a symptom of the education system "dumbing down" and catering to lazy students. Obviously if a student has a particular reason for finding cursive difficult, as some posters in this thread have mentioned, exceptions should be made; but otherwise it should be compulsory. I think schools should teach shorthand, as well- it's a very useful skill.Aellex wrote:Guess it might just be cultural then. The only thing I've seen people ever write in print was their family name and it's because it's a convention to make sure people don't mistake a letter reading it.
I suspect not teaching cursive is a largely American thing. In my experience it's very much the norm here in the UK to write in cursive as well; I do know people who prefer to write in non-cursive, but it's the exception rather than the rule.
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by Ghost Land » Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:16 am
Old Tyrannia wrote:Cursive is the proper way to write English. It's both a more efficient way of writing and more aesthetically pleasing than block print. I always write in cursive, and whilst my regular script is pretty unintelligible to anyone who isn't me I can write very clearly whilst still joining the letters if what I'm writing has to be understood by others. Removing it from the curriculum seems to me to be a symptom of the education system "dumbing down" and catering to lazy students. Obviously if a student has a particular reason for finding cursive difficult, as some posters in this thread have mentioned, exceptions should be made; but otherwise it should be compulsory. I think schools should teach shorthand, as well- it's a very useful skill.Aellex wrote:Guess it might just be cultural then. The only thing I've seen people ever write in print was their family name and it's because it's a convention to make sure people don't mistake a letter reading it.
I suspect not teaching cursive is a largely American thing. In my experience it's very much the norm here in the UK to write in cursive as well; I do know people who prefer to write in non-cursive, but it's the exception rather than the rule.
by SD_Film Artists » Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:30 am
by Lillorainen » Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:46 am
Old Tyrannia wrote:Cursive is the proper way to write English. It's both a more efficient way of writing and more aesthetically pleasing than block print. I always write in cursive, and whilst my regular script is pretty unintelligible to anyone who isn't me I can write very clearly whilst still joining the letters if what I'm writing has to be understood by others. Removing it from the curriculum seems to me to be a symptom of the education system "dumbing down" and catering to lazy students. Obviously if a student has a particular reason for finding cursive difficult, as some posters in this thread have mentioned, exceptions should be made; but otherwise it should be compulsory. I think schools should teach shorthand, as well- it's a very useful skill.Aellex wrote:Guess it might just be cultural then. The only thing I've seen people ever write in print was their family name and it's because it's a convention to make sure people don't mistake a letter reading it.
I suspect not teaching cursive is a largely American thing. In my experience it's very much the norm here in the UK to write in cursive as well; I do know people who prefer to write in non-cursive, but it's the exception rather than the rule.
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by Katganistan » Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:14 am
by SD_Film Artists » Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:20 am
Katganistan wrote:For fuck's sake, teach it.
I'm getting more and more students whose handwriting is so bad I can't grade their essays because they are completely illegible. Given they need to write longhand for standardized exams anyway, not teaching cursive because everyone uses a computer is crippling them at expressing themselves on handwritten tasks.
by Katganistan » Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:22 am
SD_Film Artists wrote:Katganistan wrote:For fuck's sake, teach it.
I'm getting more and more students whose handwriting is so bad I can't grade their essays because they are completely illegible. Given they need to write longhand for standardized exams anyway, not teaching cursive because everyone uses a computer is crippling them at expressing themselves on handwritten tasks.
It's not really about computers though. It's just not enforcing a rather arbitrary writing style onto people. Sometimes cursive is so smooth and curly that it ceases to be intelligible letters and just looks like one long signature.
by SD_Film Artists » Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:24 am
Katganistan wrote:SD_Film Artists wrote:
It's not really about computers though. It's just not enforcing a rather arbitrary writing style onto people. Sometimes cursive is so smooth and curly that it ceases to be intelligible letters and just looks like one long signature.
I don't care what they're taught as long as it's legible. Cursive, block printing, d'nealian, whatever -- if you insist on hand written tasks, then teach clear handwriting.
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Pope Joan wrote:Most teachers are themselves inept at handwriting and so are incapable of teaching it.
I learned much more satisfactorily by teaching myself
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Right wing humour squad wrote:Ah is cursive a language or???
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