Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for September 12, 2021

My kids can read cursive, but not write it.

They still taught cursive when my daughter was in 2nd grade. She’s 31 now.

I can read it but I rarely write it anymore.

I addressed an envelope to one of my grandchildren and the post office returned to me “address unknown”. I checked with his mother and the address was correct!

I don’t think I’ve used cursive since maybe 1982.

A non-cursive signature doesn’t seem write.

Wait until he encounters one of their spacecraft – Clutch and Shift!

old, yes, but wise……

I spent half a school year in high school learning block lettering in Mechanical Drawing class. I’ll bet that’s been dropped from the curriculum.

When did schools stop teaching cursive?

I wasn’t allowed to use cursive words when growing up. I hated that soap taste.

Yes, children; it’s a secret code. And they scroll their lives away…

A powerful group of clerics – who were known to solve math problems with nothing but a pencil and paper!

A little known fact: companies that use Captchas in pairs often use only the first one to verify your identity and the second one is an image of cursive writing that they can’t read with certainty. So they take the majority opinion of the thousands of users who type the “right” answer to the second image to help translate it. Basically we’re beta testers for their OCR software.

Cursive was designed to prevent blotches of ink when a pen nib was lifted or placed on a writing surface. Particularly useful with early fountain pens.

I got a ‘D’ in penmanship when I was in elementary school. It never got much better and there are days I think I could fill in for a doctor writing prescriptions. A lot of the time it is a mix of cursive and printing.

I saw the minutes of a city council meeting written in the 40’s. It was like a piece of art.

I write in cursive in order to work on maintaining motor skills, also it slows me down so I have to think about what I am writing.

Cursive is actually the best way to write on paper that is not quite flat, such as post-it notes that have been on your table for six months.

Writing styles change. Check out the Declaration of Independence, with the “Purfuit of Happinefs.”

I learned cursive by printing then connecting the letters, it was pretty easy. Just saying…

Oddly, my late father enjoyed using the cursive font when he typed his letters … go figure, eh? … I can write cursive, but often don’t … ;)

That’s way too complicated for this generation of snowflakes.

Way back when, while I was in the Service, I had friends that told me to be sure to write to them. I would, they wouldn’t write back, so, I started messing with the letters, such as printing the letters backwards. Finally, my last act was to write letters to them in cursive, again, backwards. 45 years later, I still write something like that just to keep up the “skill.”

My grandson learned cursive. He doesn’t use it. Doesn’t need it, he can type 100 words a minute not looking at the keyboard.

I still can’t believe they stopped teaching cursive. It really doesn’t take that long to learn and cursive signatures are required for legal documents.