Nonsense

If you do a lot of writing by hand, cursive is a lifesaver.

I switched schools for high school after being in a British private school since the first grade. I was shocked at seeing anyone write in block print for the first time. Up until then I genuinely thought that cursive was the only way to hand-write and that block was reserved for little kids just learning to write.

EDIT: That school even had a calligraphy class that taught us how to write with a fountain pen. I have no idea what world they were preparing us for.

I'm appalled by the absolute state of these comments. I expected more from what felt like largely a leftist space. more than yearning for ignorance. there's no space where knowledge is sacred anymore I guess.

good capitalist boy. bark. sit. work your ass off. never learn anything that doesn't give you immediate practical results, you understand? you're only to learn things that produce and/or consume. you're not to enjoy knowledge for the sake of it or anything that might spark creativity. we have AI for creative endeavors. you do the work. don't wonder. don't be curious. don't even think about thinking. does it make money? does it spend money? no? then stop and get fucking back to work.

This take is honestly bewildering to me. What do you mean "for no reason"? You learn it to write quickly and legibly. What other option is there? Writing in block letters like a kindergartener?? inb4 "bUt eVeRyThInG iS dIgItAl nOw". I'm a programmer, about as digital as you can get, and even I whip out the pen and paper for mindmapping and notetaking.

Older Millennial here.

I had to learn cursive, memorize the times table, and know the capital of every god damn state. I had to remember the order of planets. I had to memorize polygon names up to 20 and roman numeral math.

There's so many things I learned that I don't use on a day to day. Things I can pull out of my brain but if you made me apply it, I'll struggle for a bit, and scribble the answer on a piece of paper.

The one time the skills came in handy was when I was crushing a escape room.

I'm a millennial. I was also taught cursive for absolutely no reason.

First of all, why? It's supposed to be easier/quicker to write things down using cursive but honestly, I can't understand people's chicken scratch cursive anyways, so it's basically meaningless. You might as well give someone a list of scribbles and just have them call you later for what it should say.

That's basically it. Signatures, sure, maybe, but bluntly, who gives a damn?

Fuck cursive.

Yeah but what life event causes some people to forever write in all capital letters?

Imagine not using the faster, cooler way of writing

I don't care if anyone learns cursive or not, but I have to say it's a bit painful to watch people taking twice as long to laboriously print stuff out and TBH I've had just as much trouble deciphering some people's printing as I have someone's cursive.

Kinda makes me wonder why he didn't write that sign in cursive. Kind of a missed oppertunity to accually use it

I guess it's a good thing he wrote it in print. Nobody would've been able to read it otherwise.

I have lovely cursive handwriting and I'm proud of it

As soon as my school said cursive was no longer mandatory, I immediately stopped using it. Garbage, pure garbage. I've had a job that involved coming into contact with a lot of papers where people are still choosing to write in cursive, and it is consistently the most unreadable spaghetti I have had the misfortune to look at.

By all means find ways to transcribe old works written in cursive - into print, but stop trying to revive this shitty writing style, it deserves to die.

Gen x? No, millennials ~~were the last Gen to learn cursive~~ learned cursive too

The hell are you talking about? It's the perfect secret code to keep anything hidden from younger generations. It's like how manual transmission is the best car security system there is.

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

I learned cursive to pro actively fuck with the people that didn't