Can you write in cursive?

[AristotleAmadopolis]

Cursive or handwriting is what I use 90% of the time I write anything. Taking notes in meetings, birthday/holiday cards, to-do lists... It is just that much easier and faster for me. My wife has excellent print skills, so that is how she writes.

Like others have mentioned, I have also stylized by cursive/handwriting, so while it is all generally correct, there are some letters that I do not do the way it was taught. Like doing a cursive G, F, Q, S, and T.

i feel like not knowing a cursive is not knowing something about yourself. Cursive provides for jotting thoughts and ideas quickly too.

 

[Dude Incredible]

i feel like not knowing a cursive is not knowing something about yourself. Cursive provides for jotting thoughts and ideas quickly too.

and then not being able to read them later! lol.

 

[therealdope]

I have been printing only since grade six, when my teacher told me that "everyone knows that people with messy hand writing never amount to anything". LOL

 

[HARRISON_3]

Fuck yea I can

 

[Andy Capp]

Or, can you write instead of print? Do they still use those terms for it?

Anyway, blew my mind when I found out some people cant write in cursive. I'm pretty sure they stopped teaching cursive in favor of print letters.

I have trouble processing that it's even a question. I still remember when we had to "write lines" to practice it.

 

[oldshadow]

Yes and I can drive a stick.

 

[Bald1]

I can but it's a really bad idea. My hand writing, cursive or block, puts most Doctor scripts to shame in how unintelligible it is. Shit might as well be as yet undiscovered runic gibberish. I excel at a lot of things but am a solid failure at hand writing.

 

[JbModest]

Nobody can read my cursive so i use it only to sign checks.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Fuck yea I can

This, and it's sometimes even legible!

 

[emefer]

Yes but not as fluid as I used to be able to. I had to fill copybooks writing the alphabet in grade school.
My ex was a teachers assistant and all the kids would ask her to teach them cursive. They called it bubble letters.
Can confirm kids can’t read an analog clock.

 

[StonedLemur]

I only write in cursive. Writing in block letters is a huge waste of time. I remember that in elementary school they had us use exclusively cursive for like a year to make sure we understood it. There's some people on which it never 'took' and they regressed to writing in big block letters as pre-teens / teens; just struck me as a very childish / arrested development type of writing. Of course the US education system is trash so if you're American you get a pass I guess, not your fault.

Im from America and can write in cursive, what's your point exactly?

The education system is shit here, but you don't need teachers or schools to learn sir.

 

[Archie Goodwin]

Anyway, blew my mind when I found out some people cant write in cursive. I'm pretty sure they stopped teaching cursive in favor of print letters.

Yes, I'm an educated adult.

"Lawdy mercy, I can't read dat curly writin'!"

 

[boingyman]

Yes, but outside of signing my name I rarely use it now a days. My mom had ridiculously nice cursive and handwriting in general. It's so nice it could seriously be a font. Next time I visit home I'll look for a paper she did back in high school (or college?) and snap a photo if I can find it. On the otherside of the spectrum my 8th grade math teacher would write in shorthand. Had no idea what he was writing more than half the time. If you want to know a lost art outside of personal use look up shorthand writing.

 

[DaleBoca]

Im from America and can write in cursive, what's your point exactly?

The education system is shit here, but you don't need teachers or schools to learn sir.

The education system is quite good. The free education is piss poor but if you have money, you can send your children to great academic institutions, SIR!

 

[StonedLemur]

The education system is quite good. The free education is piss poor but if you have money, you can send your children to great academic institutions, SIR!

I grew up in the projects and I learned just fine sir.

 

[evergreenrider]

I'm not an imbecile, of course I can write cursive.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I have been printing only since grade six, when my teacher told me that "everyone knows that people with messy hand writing never amount to anything". LOL

Doctors...*cough...

 

[Provocateur]

Yes but my handwriting is already so illegible I can just say it’s cursive and no one would know.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Yes. They still taught it in school when I was a kid. Though nobody can read my cursive. Even I can’t.

 

[preppypyro]

I can, but my cursive is as messy as can be. My printing is not much better but it is a little easier to read so I stick to that.

I'm a high school teacher and I always laugh when I have to write stuff on the board. The students always give me a wtf did he just write down look, and I always tell them good luck copying what I wrote!

I think cursive is still a cool skill to learn though.