Babar books were in cursive when I was learning to read…you had to wait to be a “big kid” to read them.
Now kids don’t even learn cursive, I’m told.It’ll become a secret code for those of us old enough to remember it….Those durn whippersnappers won’t be able to read our secret communications… bwah ha ha…. IF we can be bothered to write them…sigh….on paper instead of in e-mail or texts.
They’ve gone back to teaching cursive because kids couldn’t read old texts. On a practical level, however, most adults do not use cursive anymore. It will probably fall into complete disuse within another generation and be decidable only by historians trained in the art. But then again, nobody writes in cuneiform anymore either.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
Babar books were in cursive when I was learning to read…you had to wait to be a “big kid” to read them.
Now kids don’t even learn cursive, I’m told.It’ll become a secret code for those of us old enough to remember it….Those durn whippersnappers won’t be able to read our secret communications… bwah ha ha…. IF we can be bothered to write them…sigh….on paper instead of in e-mail or texts.
cdward over 9 years ago
They’ve gone back to teaching cursive because kids couldn’t read old texts. On a practical level, however, most adults do not use cursive anymore. It will probably fall into complete disuse within another generation and be decidable only by historians trained in the art. But then again, nobody writes in cuneiform anymore either.
coltish1 over 9 years ago
However: she DOES have a well-functioning built-in cursive detector. Her CURSING detector, though, is set to “Allow.”
echoraven over 9 years ago
It’s Brush Script. She’s not impressed.