Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for July 09, 2017

I “curse” cursive when in the hand of bad penmanship and see it as fine art when done so well.

I still try, Gweedo, even though my hands are rather shaky, now.

Great piece today.

The framers actually gave the document to someone who could write well in cursive – unlike me, whose cursive looks like an EKG – so that people could read it.

I can read cursive, but it’s much easier to read the Declaration of Independence in printed text, which is how almost everyone has actually read it. Including old dudes, like me.

I think too much is made of it. I can’t read the Elizabethan Secretary Hand (and neither can the vast majority of people). It doesn’t stop me from reading Shakespeare, obviously.

I suppose that documents such as that WILL be seen as art one day. Since cursive is no longer taught in school, it will become a sort of dead language once we are gone.

That’s a prayer I can happily say AMEN to.

When a prayer of thanks before meals becomes long, I start to wonder (silently, of course) if we will give thanks for warm food.

All parents ought to teach their kids cursive. It’s part of education, whether they use it daily or not.

The title panel makes me wonder if this should have been last Sunday’s strip.

Yea cursive.

Personally, I use cursive when I write almost anything by hand. It ain’t pretty, but it’s so much faster than printing.

Must adults don’t use the cursive script that they were taught in school (the “Palmer method”). Instead, it’s common practice to use a sort of printing – cursive hybrid, and everyone has their own personalized “style” that they find most convenient and legible.

I write cursive. and say prayers before our meals. Before I started 1 st grade in 1946 I could write my name in cursive as my dad taught me. I had to learn to print it though in school!.

The Declaration of Independence has been printed in type literally millions of time. So you don’t need to know cursive writing to read it. In fact. the vast majority of people who have read it have read it in type, myself included.

A lot of kids today DON’T know cursive.

There’s no substitute for a real signature.

Why do people like this garbage?