Is Cursive Dead?

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Rawiyah

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Is Cursive Dead?

Apparently, since only a very small percentage of adults use cursive on a day-to-day basis, so some say to let cursive die and no longer teach it in schools.

Others say that when a student knows cursive, it helps them focus better on the content of what they are writing. To them, "it's not calligraphy, it's functional".

I still use cursive sometimes, as it's easier to write faster and still be legible.

What do you think?
Is cursive dead?
 
I've always hated cursive. So I really do not care. I still have to ask my mother what certain letters are in cursive because I simply cannot retain the radically different shape the letter is compared to the print version of it.
Even in school though, I always found it a hassle. About the only thing I actually sign "in cursive" is my name but that's just because I really just have to write the first letters properly in each name and then can get away with the rest being total chicken scratch that don't even look like letters. Well, so long as at least I can make one letter in my last name look like a 't' that is.

So I've gotten used to signing my name that way, because my handwriting is pure **** anyway.

Signatures are one thing, but other than that **** if I'm ever write in cursive, it's just a hassle. So for once I see the point in schools not wanting to teach something. I never got the point in it anyway. Everyone was always telling me how important it was but they could never tell me why other than "it just is" or "because everyone uses it when they get older". And then people act like it's such a travesty when people don't know cursive, like they're intellectually retarded or have been denied some great education.

Yeah, well, I just got ****ing sick and tired of everyone telling me "don't lift your pen off the paper" and I'm just like "but I don't know how to spell worth ****! I have to think about how to spell words that have more than 3 letters! I can't write as fast as need-be for cursive because I can't spell!"

Seriously though, I can't spell. I'd be up a ****ing creek without spellcheck... including right now. Let's just say I would come off as someone you'd think would be totally stupid by virtue of not being able to spell, like at all. But I was never a good speller, ever! These days if it has more than 5 letters I still have to stop and be like "****, how do I spell that again?"
With some exceptions, of course, I've gotten better over time. But since I don't remember cursive very well either I look at a word in cursive and even if it is spelled write, it just looks so unholy and wrong to me.

But hey, look at the bright side. Instead of teaching kids cursive, now you can actually spend more time teaching them how to spell words. Instead of teaching them a different way to write words which they probably can't even spell.
Anyway, if the parents find cursive so imperative then they can do what my parents tried to do with me when they found out how horrific my cursive was. The parents can teach them cursive if they find it so imperative.

Anyway, cursive never did jack **** for me. I could never retain the shapes of the letters correctly and match them to what they would be in print. Like I was always confusing a capital 'Z' in cursive for something else, which got most people thinking I was pretty stupid... even though really it just confused the hell outta me because it didn't ****ing look like a 'Z', it looked like something else! I probably mistook it for a 'g' or something, I don't remember.
If the letters looked closer to what they did in print, maybe I would have gotten it, but I just never could retain what certain cursive letters were.

So good riddance~
 
I only like cursive when it's done right. Whenever I do cursive, it looks messy and awful. I do think it's died out now though. separating the letters makes it easier and clearer to read too.
 
Nope, it is not. at least not here. Everyone uses it until 7th grade at least. it's not beautiful most of the times but it the calligraphy we learned in primary school.

Most of eldery people do use it though.. My grandpa has a beautiful calligraphy..

Mine is pretty much like the computer except for the vowels and some other letters.
 
Had to google what it means. To be honest I think it looks better and easier to read not cursive but it's nothing I think about much tbh :3
 
It's how I write if I'm writing quickly. Much easier than doing letters individually.
This whole debate's come from some uneducated hambeast in the Zimmerman trial not being able to read cursive, don't see why some people not being able to read it means it's dead.
 
I thought everyone just called it joined-up writing ngl...

Anyway I always write like this because it's so much faster and I hate writing so I can finish it quicker. :D
 
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See even though I do "joined up writing" I never see it as cursive because its sorta a personal style that doesn't really fit with the traditional idea of cursive :P
 
Well I just Google imaged it and it came up with loads of different styles so I'm really confused right now D:
 
My handwriting is terrible when it's cursive. I can try spending a lot of time on one word and it just looks like ****. :\ I'd love to be able to do it and for it to look nice, but I just can't.
 
I was taught to write in cursive at school, but never really bothered much. I don't ever do it now.
 
Here in Philippines cursive is still being taught at school and if I'm not mistaken teachers from 3rd grade (elementary) are required to write in cursive. I have a hard time writing in cursive but I sometimes practice writing this way. We can show more identity and uniqueness in writing cursive.
 
*Another lefty here!*

I, too, am left-handed and my cursive SUCKS. It used to be legible, but I don't use cursive anymore unless I'm signing my name. I prefer to print because people say that my print is awesome and so not typical of a left-handed person.
 
Urgh we had to write in cursive up until year 6 in all of our work and I hated it. The second I started secondary school I stopped writing that way. It doesn't help that my handwriting is bad anyway and I'd much rather type as it's always legible and far faster.

With that said, cursive does look nice when the person has nice handwriting so it should still be taught so that children can choose to use it if they wish.
 
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