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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
3. Sometimes I really hate it...
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 04:30 PM
Jul 2012

some people can't do cursive worth a crap and it's like deciphering a foreign language.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
6. That sure is true! Makes you wonder, doesn't it: Why bother if you don't care if people can
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 04:46 PM
Jul 2012

read it or not?

Or - Do you EVER put yourself in someone else's shoes/perspective and notice that your scribble is incomprehensible?

cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
7. Because my job requires me to read written medical records fairly often...
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 04:49 PM
Jul 2012

The scribble is often indecipherable.

I know how difficult it is so I do my best to write legibly when it's called for.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
10. I taught high school, wrote on the blackboard, annotated student compositions, but . . .
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 05:01 PM
Jul 2012

more than that I like the way a good pen and paper feel and the shapes of the letters are interesting and somewhat of a challenge.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
4. Beautiful
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 04:35 PM
Jul 2012

I love cursive, although since I tend to use a modified chancery cursive most times when I write with my handy dandy calligraphy pen, I still enjoy seeing notes written in that form.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
8. I was taught cursive just before people started moving away from it.
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 04:51 PM
Jul 2012

Aside from aesthetics, cursive is useful because it makes handwriting faster.

Though these day, I do most things on the computer, and because I took the career path of software engineer, where I had to be absolutely precise when I'm hand-writing code, I reverted to block-printing.

These days, the only thing I write in cursive on a regular basis is my signature.

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