Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for February 03, 2023

Not as ancient as cursing.

I assume some time around 100AD we had people complaining about how kids didn’t learn cuneiform any more, and made do with this alphabet nonsense.

All part of the Purfuit of Happinefs.

It’s more of a secret code.

My grandson was very proud to inform me that he learned to cursive write his signature on his own.

Every time I address an envelope in cursive I wonder if the youngsters at the post office can read it…

Hieroglyphics are easier to read in most cases!

As an eBay selle,r I sent a personal thank you by email with the promise to ship it within 24 hours then I enclosed a typed/printed note with the purchase thanking my buyers and giving them my contact information in case there were any problems to which I added, in cursive “Thanks again (Gordon) and my signature”. For that I received two negative ratings for communication (out of 6328 buyers). They must have been non-cursivers.

I tend to write too fast in cursive, and then it is unreadable, so I mostly I use printing.

And I’ll bet cursive writing isn’t taught in school anymore,either…..

The letters of the Gods.

There’s no urgent need to write it these days, but it’s useful to be able to read it. It can be mastered in a couple of hours (assuming you’re a good reader to begin with).

I have a couple of 20-somethings who work with me. I left one of them a fairly lengthy note one day (we don’t have emails at work) about something I needed him to do, and wrote in cursive. Of course, the task didn’t get done since he couldn’t read it. I hate that we’re forced to print to accomodate the younger generation.

Not that ancient!

I’m 80 and my handwriting is OK. Not great but readable. Hasn’t changed for all my life. But my forebears’ writing was gorgeous. I have always wished I could write like that but not so much that I’d put in the work on penmanship that they did. (Or were forced into)

I will never PRINT again! Says the retired Electrical Engineer. I prefer secret codes!

To the block letter generations, cursive makes me look way more intelligent than I can hope to be.

I find writing in cursive enjoyable, though I have to warm up and practice a bit to stay in form. (Eliciting the judgement of my second grade teacher still haunts me. That “She’s Heeeere” sensation. )

I learned early, when teachers gave me a note, written in cursive, to give to my mother, to “forget” to give it to her or lose it. The teachers learned to call my mother, in addition to the notes.

My wife thought a better last line would have been, “Yes, it’s a note from your Great-Grandma”.

With ever more communication being electronic, cursive writing is redundant.

thankfully, today’s youngsters won’t have to go through the pain and suffering of penmanship class…

So, if kids aren’t learning cursive, do they print their signatures?

I was glad that I was taught Cursive, it is much easier than printing.

Wait til the kid learns about other ancient things like respect, ethics, hard work, common sense, responsibility for your own actions, etc.

Once I read where a local bank had all the materials, (with their logo) to teach students how to write checks and properly balance out a checkbook to prevent overdrafts, etc. School nixed it, even though it was provided “free of charge to the schools” because they didn’t want to appear to “endorse a commercial enterprise”. Glad they protected their students so later on they could learn how a bounced check could cost them $50-to $80 in fees and penalties in the real world.