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Cursive or printing?

Cursive
26
29%
Printing
53
60%
They both suck
10
11%
 
Total votes : 89

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Ifreann
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Postby Ifreann » Mon May 21, 2012 4:55 pm

Linux and the X wrote:
Victorious Decepticons wrote:Of course, typing is king over all. Nice, legible, standardized fonts. Quick to write and just as easy to read. Now if only I could make everyone use a font size that's actually big enough to see, it'd be perfect.

Image

Okay.
~ Type this, bitches! ~
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Linux and the X
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Postby Linux and the X » Mon May 21, 2012 4:56 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Linux and the X wrote:Image

Okay.
~ Type this, bitches! ~

Missing the shading and line variation.
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Ifreann
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Postby Ifreann » Mon May 21, 2012 4:57 pm

Linux and the X wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Okay.
~ Type this, bitches! ~

Missing the shading and line variation.

Close enough.
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Postby Linux and the X » Mon May 21, 2012 5:00 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Linux and the X wrote:Missing the shading and line variation.

Close enough.

Nay.
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Postby Military Forces » Mon May 21, 2012 5:02 pm

TYPE IT it is the 21st century.
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Postby Costa Fiero » Mon May 21, 2012 5:02 pm

Cursive. Because it feels more natural, it flows better and my handwriting is actually quite neat. Illedgible but neat.

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Third Mexican Empire
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Postby Third Mexican Empire » Mon May 21, 2012 5:31 pm

I use this weird hybrid, its legible, pretty, and fast.

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Postby Conservative Republicans » Mon May 21, 2012 6:48 pm

Prefer typing on a keyboard quickly. However, American schools still teach this art you call "cursive" and "printing".

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Trollgaard
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Postby Trollgaard » Mon May 21, 2012 7:30 pm

I print. I don't even remember how to write in cursive anymore-except for my signature.

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Napkiraly
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Postby Napkiraly » Mon May 21, 2012 7:33 pm

I use a combo of the two. The letters generally look like the printing version, except that they're joined. Faster (for me anyway) and legible.
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Postby Blazedtown » Mon May 21, 2012 8:17 pm

Cursive is bull. The only cursive you need to learn is your name.
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Kalibarr
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Postby Kalibarr » Mon May 21, 2012 8:18 pm

Printing. My handwriting sucks enough as it is.

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Postby Trotskylvania » Mon May 21, 2012 8:21 pm

Over a long career of note taking, my printing has evolved into a sort of half-cursive
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Postby Saiwania » Mon May 21, 2012 8:32 pm

Corporatist American States wrote:I learned in school that with the advent of computers, text and instant messaging, and email, cursive is slowly dying out and by 2050 there will be very few people who know cursive.


There probably will be few people who know or use cursive, but there will still be plenty of cursive fonts that can be used with word processing programs.
My preference is using cursive for handwritten letters and signatures, but print for everything else.
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Postby Magmia » Mon May 21, 2012 9:26 pm

Zathganastan wrote:
Magmia wrote:Cursive should be illegal. Hate it :mad:

Um why it's a very simple style.

because its just a general pain in the arse!

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Postby Mushet » Mon May 21, 2012 9:31 pm

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Postby Risottia » Tue May 22, 2012 2:04 am

Vaklor wrote:Which do you prefer? I, myself, prefer cursive because it looks nice, takes up less time and has a nice flow to writing it. You can also add your own little "style" to it.This might seem like a really silly question to ask, but whatevs.


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Postby Cameroi » Tue May 22, 2012 2:43 am

it all depends on the font. but i generally find printed fonts easier to read then cursive. and sans cerif ones most readily readable of all. where as cursive scripts, whether by had or mechanical, have a tendency to become all but unreadable.
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Postby Hoyteca » Tue May 22, 2012 2:46 am

Printing. Who cares if cursive looks prettier? It's not a painting. Printing is easier to read since there are tiny, but noticeable spaces separating the letters and the letters look a lot more different from each other. It also forces you to slow down when you're writing, making it harder to "rush" your writing. With cursive, it's too easy to write too fast, turning an otherwise barely-readable sentence into a series of squiggly lines.

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Postby The Anglo-Saxon Empire » Tue May 22, 2012 2:51 am

I can't even write cursive, my signature is practically print in lower case letters with lines connecting the letters instead of actual cursive.
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Forsher
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Postby Forsher » Tue May 22, 2012 3:47 am

Meritocratic States wrote:Both sucked. Typing is the future baby!!


It was also the past.
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Postby Meowfoundland » Tue May 22, 2012 3:50 am

Print. My cursive looks like death.
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Postby Forsher » Tue May 22, 2012 3:50 am

Costa Fiero wrote:Cursive. Because it feels more natural, it flows better and my handwriting is actually quite neat. Illedgible but neat.


People look at my handwriting and say, "That's too neat to read." It can be annoying.
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Postby Midweilaisa » Tue May 22, 2012 4:06 am

I would have to say printing, because I never fully learned how to write cursively. I cannot show you half of the capital cursive letters to save my life.

It's kinda embarrassing when I'm writing my signature; I know how to write the capital A, but then I have to print the D because I don't know how it works capitalized.
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Postby Sigvardia » Tue May 22, 2012 4:50 am

Cursive, it feels more natural for me to write in.

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