i never learned to write in cursive

[serVice]

Its true. Well, it was taught to me in school, but i never had a reason to write in cursive, so the teaching never stuck. i can write my signature in cursive, barely, it just kind of looks like a mess of lines, its not really readable. Everything i write is entirely in print.
Is there any upsides to writing in cursive, and if so, is there any way i could learn to do some of it at this point in my life?

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i never learned to write in cursive


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[East Side Dave]

I don't like cursive either! I like to write in really small print in old-school black and white notebooks and I likey to feed a fat man 'till he bursts! Detective!!!

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[Fallon]

Yeah I can't do it well also. Luckly I never really have to write anything down. God bless computers.

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[JustJon]

I learned to write in script, I liked the individual letters better, so I stopped as soon as they stopped forcing us in school.

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[Hottub]

For some reason, I only do it when I write a check.
(I vaguely recall that one of my elementary school teachers said that is how you HAVE to do it.)
Although it is not that legible because I otherwise always write regular, or type.

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[dingo]

both my print and script are bad but when i write i find that i combind the two so i will have words that are all print and all script and then i have words that are half and half

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[blancostupido]

After grammar school, I took drafting in HS and pretty much wrote everything down in caps/sm caps. Nowadays, I pretty much totally forgot how to do cursive, except for my signature, which is horribly unintelligible anyway

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[A.J.]

I've forgotten how to do it since I always print (except for my signature -- which has gotten progressively sloppier.)

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[McNabbShouldDie]

I learned to and can write in cursive, but I dont. It takes me forever to write a sentence in cursive. Printing is so much faster and is more legible for my teachers. Eventually I'm gonna have to write my signature in script, but till that day comes, printing is how I write.

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[ADF]

I think writing in cursive is going out of style as more and more people only use email and the like to communicate in the written form.

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[serVice]

I think writing in cursive is going out of style as more and more people only use email and the like to communicate in the written form.

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This message was edited by WWFallon on 2-10-04 @ 8:16 PM

[FUNKMAN]

i still write in cursive and the lettering leans forward to the right... i still have some trouble connecting letters to the 'y' and sometimes mix cursive and print together.

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[SatCam]

I learned in 3rd grade, and I stopped trying in 5th grade. Cursive Zs are way too hard to write. Now my writing is a mess of print connected by pen lines.

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I can only write in big 3D block letters that leap out at you.

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[newport king]

try spelling rizzuto.

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[Mattymack88]

i learned to write in script but i never liked it so i always wrote in print.

i only writ in script when im really tired

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[angrymissy]

they taught script in 2nd grade

i skipped 2nd grade

so i got stuck with a bunch of 3rd graders who all knew script already and i felt like a loser. i believe this is the cause of all my failures in life

anywho, i never really learned it, i can write in script but its basically illegible


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[East Side Dave]

I like writing in pictures like dem Egyptols! Blue Star!

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[Jennitalia]

it's not that difficult a thing to do.

we learned in 3rd grade. we had this old crotchety bag of a woman who taught it...mrs quiggly. she was the meanest old lady. she would slam her hand hard down on the table if you made a mistake and would scream "that's not how you do it!"

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[TooCute]

Y'all are weird. Cursive is so much faster and easier to write since your pen leaves the paper so much less frequently.

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[KateGladstone]

No real reason exists to "write in cursive" - even signatures don't legally require it (yes, I have asked lawyers about this! - if your third-grade teacher said "sigs require cursive," s/he lied to you! ... or his/her third-grade teacher lied first, and s/he believed it!)
I make my living teaching MDs (and others) to write clearly, fast, at emergency-room speeds - and we don't rely on loopy-doopy "cursive lessons" for this. (Nor do we rely on "printing" - not the kind you probably learned anyway - and no, not shorthand either). For more info on what works better than cursive or printing, search the Net for "Italic handwriting" or just visit my website, Handwriting Repair. (You'll find its URL in my sign-off.)

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[Def Dave in SC]

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[FUNKMAN]

being a Catholic School boy i remember the yellow paper with the two solid lines and the dotted line in the middle for Phonics and then moving up to the Marble Pad.... and oh those cartridge pens, flung much ink in my schooldays....

then there was Frank Hunt, he sat two seats in front of me and he had real thick nappy hair and one day i threw about 10 staples in his hair... he kept turning around and the more he swiped his hair with his hands the deeper the staples went in...

must've had fun shampooing his hair that night...
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[high fly]

I Never Learned To Write In Cursive

And I thought I was the only one!
Between the second and third grade, I switched schools. In third grade at the new school, I found myself among other students who had been taught cursive in the third grade.
So I got some tutoring and was put out in the hall to practice writingit and didn't do so hot, as there was a cool aquarium right by my desk in the hall to look at.
So then in the fourth grade, we were back to the old school and everyone was still way ahead of me and since I was so slow at cursive, I got a pass on it, which I managed to parlay from grade to grade right on through h.s. graduation, with only a coupla teachers making me do it.
I found ways to fix their wagons so I'd get out of it by the end of the semester..

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[Aggie]

I know this is a really random bump but I didn't want to start a new thread when I realized today I've forgotton how to write in cursive. I never write anymore and when I do it's like this weird morphing of printing and cursive.

I tried to write out the cursive alphabet in capital letters and lowercase and couldn't complete it. I feel like a failure.

[BlackSpider]

I know this is a really random bump but I didn't want to start a new thread when I realized today I've forgotton how to write in cursive. I never write anymore and when I do it's like this weird morphing of printing and cursive.

I tried to write out the cursive alphabet in capital letters and lowercase and couldn't complete it. I feel like a failure.

We all write like that.
At least I do. You are not alone...

[TooLowBrow]

i wish we could type in cursive.

id also like a nice copperplate font

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[Misteriosa]

I know this is a really random bump but I didn't want to start a new thread when I realized today I've forgotton how to write in cursive. I never write anymore and when I do it's like this weird morphing of printing and cursive.

I tried to write out the cursive alphabet in capital letters and lowercase and couldn't complete it. I feel like a failure.

dont be.. i read this article yesterday on slate. it seems timely for your issue.

Dead Letters:
Everyone has terrible handwriting these days. My daughter and I set out to fix ours.
(http://www.slate.com/id/2227680/)

i use hand writing often as my job requires a physical paper trail for things. if we were allowed electronic records, i think i wouldnt really write at all.

[boosterp]

We all write like that.
At least I do. You are not alone...

Ditto. Since I had to train my right hand I can not write in cursive. My right hand makes a weird print/connective type of writing and this is why I type so much.

[RoseBlood]

..it's like this weird morphing of printing and cursive.

We all write like that.
At least I do. You are not alone...

My right hand makes a weird print/connective type of writing...

All of the above. I can write nice cursive if I have to, but who has to these days?

i use hand writing often as my job requires a physical paper trail for things. if we were allowed electronic records, i think i wouldnt really write at all.

Same here, endless paperwork. There are occasions where I even have to use a typewriter! Yes, a TYPEWRITER! :wacko:
The old lady made fun of me because I had no idea how to use it at first.

[BlackSpider]

... There are occasions where I even have to use a typewriter! Yes, a TYPEWRITER! :wacko:
The old lady made fun of me because I had no idea how to use it at first.



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[jauble]

Forget about cursive, look at the big swing and a miss on ancient spam removal.

[zildjian361]

very cool post , I went to Catholic school and learned cursive, but when i went to Brooklyn Tech, I alway's use Capital Letters when I write. I think that when I started using computer and started people told me STOP SHOUTIN. NOW I know :laugh::drunk:

[JohnCharles]

I was forced to use cursive from 2nd grade through 8th grade.

Catholic school demanded it.

After starting public high school I abandoned it almost completely.

Now, I write in a hybrid of print and cursive.

Looks terrible.

[Farmer Dave]

At this point I can barely write out a check. If I have to leave a note for someone it is printed w/ spelling errors scratched out and corrected w/ another spelling error.

[TripleSkeet]

I had to use cursive my whole grade school life. Today the only thing I write in cursive is my signature, and even that is more like scribble with 2 capital letters then actual handwriting.

[Aggie]

dont be.. i read this article yesterday on slate. it seems timely for your issue.

Dead Letters:
Everyone has terrible handwriting these days. My daughter and I set out to fix ours.
(http://www.slate.com/id/2227680/)

i use hand writing often as my job requires a physical paper trail for things. if we were allowed electronic records, i think i wouldnt really write at all.

Interesting article, thanks! It cemented what I already decided yesterday which is to practice! I got this nice Cross fountain pen last year and it really made me realize how sucky I write when I use it. My aunt has the BEST handwriting and I've always been jealous.

[KatPw]

i wish we could type in cursive.

id also like a nice copperplate font

http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/inland/copperplate-inland.png

We still use a typewriter at work, and one of the font wheels is cursive. It's pretty neat.

I can still write in cursive, but my handwriting is very sloppy (I'm a left-handed person that was taught only by right-handed people. Not exactly helpful).

[Thebazile78]

I always struggled with handwriting in general ... my fine motor control is very finicky, and since I type almost everything nowadays, it's only deteriorated since leaving school.

Writing the 'thank you' notes for my bridal shower and wedding gifts was abominable because I had to concentrate so hard to write neatly that it really wore my hands out.

Nowadays, I still call my handwriting "chicken scratches" but to a lot of folks, it's very neat.

[TheGameHHH]

weird that this came up on MSN today.....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32925695/ns/us_news-education/?GT1=43001

[PapaBear]

I think they actually brought this up on R&F in the past months. The point was made (and I agree), that we don't use calligraphy anymore either. I was upset when my oldest son showed no ability to write in cursive for a while. I no longer worry about it. Things change. As long as you can still write in print, I see no reason for people to continue to be taught how to write in cursive style.

[Thebazile78]

Sure we use calligraphy! People make big bucks as calligraphers for ultra-formal, old-school, high-society invitations to weddings and other social occasions simply because "nobody" uses it anymore.

There's always a chance the skill will have some sort of renaissance at some point, though.

[~Katja~]

I think it is an American thing though, in Germany we learned writing cursive first before we wrote print. They still do that to this day, but they also use fountain pens from 1st grade on.
Our tests would always be graded on grammar, spelling and writing skill.
As a teenager it evolved into sloppy handwriting and it really looks bad when I write a note. I always laughed at my boss for his handwriting cause you had to guess a lot, but mine is so much worse, I am the only one able to decipher it.

[KnoxHarrington]

One thing I've always wondered: does anyone write the cursive "Q" using the traditional method?

http://www.peterson-handwriting.com/animCrsvCap/Q%20CrsvCapAn.gif

I tend to print capital letters, though I write the rest of my letters in cursive. Some of the cursive capital letters just seem really bizarre and cumbersome to write.

But even at that, I don't think I've ever written "Q" this way, or even seen it written this way.

[Patient zer0]

If I see cursive writing it strikes me as juvenile. The percentage of people that print to cursive is so far out numbered. So when I see the cursive writing it just reminds me of grade school and something impractical and juvenile