Have any of you noticed that todays youth have a problem writing in the cursive fashion
I think the advent of computers texting etc has reduced the number of folks that know how to write in cursive
I might’ve been among the last school age to ever be bothered with cursive writing - one of the most outdated practices expected between people. The emphasis of cursive conversely deemphasizes print writing which is much more readable and thus useful for all things business.
Cursive writing had its place 125-250 years ago, when part of being a competent politician, judge, and lawyer was to practice excellent, artful handwriting. Since then cursive writing has strangely kept its status as high class signifier while morphing into a convenience for the writer yet an inconvenience for the reader. IMO this started around the 1890s. I say this because I collect antique postcards dating back to the civil war and there’s a noted falloff in the quality of casual cursive toward the end of the 1800s.
Along with it’s lack of readability, my other frustration with a modern use of cursive writing is its common pretentiousness. The writer can write as illegible as they want but it’s OK because it’s cursive while the reader is stuck with the pressuring of trying to read it while also worrying that by not being able to interpret someone’s awful handwriting they risk being perceived as unable to read cursive, and thus less educated.
Not being able to read someone’s cursive writing is 90% of the time not being able to read someone’s lazy, inconsiderate handwriting.
Good riddance to cursive.
