Technology killing handwriting
 

Washington Post: The Handwriting is On the Wall - Researchers see a downside as keyboards replace pens in school

Cursive handwriting is no longer taught.

I wrote this 7 years ago:

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I welcome this particular change. What I miss is having shoeboxes full of letters you can go back and read.

Synchronicity. I was going to start a thread where people post bits of their hand-writing. (I'm obsessed with mine...)

Actually it still is and my daughter hates it as much as I did. I took some exams recently which required cursive handwriting samples, I guess for ID purposes. I totally blanked for a moment, how the heck do I write "I" in cursive? Outside of my sig I probably haven't used cursive writing in 25 years.

I ALWAYS write in cursive. As soon as we learned it, that was all that we were allowed to use. I can't stand printing, it takes too much time for me. It would take me at least 2 to 3 times longer printing than with cursive.

The only thing that I would wonder about is when these kids get to college. As far as I know, you can't take a computer in to do the essay tests.

Maybe I am confused, is it just cursive they aren't teaching? Or has the teaching of printing gone down, too?

The other thing is that people don't care about writing. One quote from the article (paraphrased) is that all important things that are turned are typed so what does it matter. But if I want to write a quick note, I am not going to go to the computer and print one out. I am just going to jot it down...in cursive. Why do I feel so ancient right now??

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i happen to possess a collection of some dwellars handwriting. the funniest by far is sycamore. it's like a 13 yr old girl's. all loopy and stuff. if he used hearts to dot his i's, the illusion would be complete.

I've always written in a combination of cursive and printed letters...sometimes an individual letter will be either way depending on what letter came before it or after it.

Please do! I love looking at people's handwriting. I think it's a great insight into character.

Very clear handwriting by the way UT.

Ummmm - I assume cursive simply means joined-up handwriting....?

My handwriting changes dependant upon my state of mind at the time of the writing. When feeling confident and poised my letters are rounded and girlish with almost no tilt. During stressful times, my handwriting is all over the place, letters leaning right and left without consistancy. And when I'm confused or struggling mentally/emotionally, my cursive leans backwards (left). The actual formation of the letters also changes based on varied circumstances.

Yes, I'm fascinated by cursive handwriting and what it can tell about the person who wrote it.

Stormie

I had to learn how to write three times throughout school.. first there was print, then denealion, then cursive. Denealion (or however its friggin spelled) was like a mix of cursive and print. Loopy disjointed letters that look like you took cursive and cut it up, yet not because the letters were sometimes different in cursive.
Pretty much sucked.

I've never actually analyzed my handwriting, other than to say it's not very pretty, nor is it girlie...it's more along the lines of chicken scratches, literally. I've always been jealous of those with pretty handwriting though. Is it because I learned early on to be lazy about my handwriting? I've heard that with practice you can change it...but i've never actually tried, so maybe I am just that lazy.

So I wouldn't say that I'm obsessed with handwriting...but it's definitely fun to check out the differences...so i'm all about posting people's handwriting. I'll even post mine, for ridicule sake...
Mine is a lot like Stormie's though...depends a lot on the circumstances surrounding my writing...

I should have been a Doctor. :redface:

Hurray!

Alas, I was born too early, and I had to write in cursive during school. I must've resisted it fiercely, because I really never learned to write cursive. In the fifth grade, it would take me hours to write a small page in cursive, and I've always been much happier writing in italic

I was never good at the "I" in cursive either --- well, I could do an I in cursive, but I always tried to connect it to the next letter and couldn't.

PS: Undertoad, your handwriting is unreal! Although that isn't cursive (mostly), it is incredibly neat.

I learned the cursive, but abandoned it after a year because my own style was already faster and more fun to me.