Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for October 29, 2023

Well, I’ll be darned…..

Is that like in that cartoon where the beavers d•amned the river?

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I think we were more truthful when we wrote with our own hand with ink on paper. A keyboard processors words like a mincer processors meat.

They would be charged with child abuse now!

Cursive, foiled again!

I don’t get the connection.

Interestingly enough, my six year old grandson has taught himself cursive. I’m not sure why.

I like writing my name in cursive.

It’s my signature move.

Don’t do calligraphy when you’re angry, what you write will end up being very cursive.

What is a witch’s favorite method of writing?

Cursive.

Modern technology has never matched the simplicity and grace of the traditional pen.

In fact, there is still no e-quill.

You lost me there, man. What in the world does using fowl language have to do with cursive writing?

Kids will be signing their names with an X.

I found out that young people (people born in the 1990s) didn’t know cursive when I signed my name at work.

My 12yr old grandson wore a T-shirt with cursive writing on it and he had to ask me what it said

Well /#*&@%!!!

loon is like many of my friends now – either don’t hear – and assume they did – or have wrong definitions for words they think they know. js

I don’t know, have you heard what comes out of the mouths of our younger population? It’s definitely cursive!

I get how my generation is distressed by this fact but cursive (like Latin) is no longer needed except for those who plan on studying history or archeology. The only time (anyone who knows cursive) actually uses it is to sign their name or write a personal note to someone. All official documents are typed, texted, or word processed these days. No one ever turns in a hand written document anymore.

My son used to call it “curse up” writing. LOL.

My grown kids handwriting is atrocious

Some school districts in California are bringing it back.

If cartoonists wrote in cursive would kids learn cursive?

My penmanship has always been terrible, I never liked writing in cursive, and even my hand-printing is only marginally legible. I was massively grateful that the widespread use of word processing made it all largely unnecessary. I guess I was just ahead of my time.

Took me a while to figure out. But (as Loon points out) kids who speak cursive get their mouths washed out with soap.

True story here. I was with my mom at my grandmothers house and I spelled out the “S” word on my building/spelling blocks. I was immediately escorted to the bathroom by my mom and had my mouth washed out with soap.

As usual Loon adds an interesting comment to the discussion.

Cursive is cool, but even after decades of being schooled with it, it can still be notoriously difficult to read. Even my own. Makes me wonder if we communicated any better using it. But then my ‘evolved’ hand print font(s) style occasionally confounds me as well. Stell enjoy handwritten signatures on documents. With a fountain pen with a worn nib.

And dentists make a fortune.

My iPad recognizes cursive better than printing with my apple pen. Maybe that’s a solution.

This must be old. Today, young people can’t read anything in any print type. When they do, they still don’t understand what they’ve read. What they’ve written themselves couldn’t be more coherent. Soap? Some of these kids eat the soap voluntarily today.

One has to wonder what it would be like to live in Loon’s mnd.

Great Dad Joke of the week!

A friend of mine wrote a letter to her grandson in cursive…she had to read it to him…no joke!

There are quite a few potty mouths who are experts on being “cursive”…! d;o)