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Cursive writing
miles
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Does anyone write in cursive anymore? I tried to copy a page from a book a few minutes ago just to see if I could and it looked like a first grader had written it.
I had no idea I had lost the ability to legibly write in cursive.
Pretty much ashamed of myself right now.[V]
I had no idea I had lost the ability to legibly write in cursive.
Pretty much ashamed of myself right now.[V]
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Mine more resembles shorthand written by a right handed man who lost his right arm in an accident having to learn to write left handed after chugging a quadruple espresso from Starbucks all the while suffering from Turrets Syndrome.
Yup! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Cursive Writing in the 3rd grade...Of course
I scribble like a monkey now.
We were required to make all entries in these notebooks in block print, so they could be read by the oncoming shift, and as an official record they were kept on file for future reference. To this day, I am unable to write for more than a few sentences until I default into printing.
I even keep pens and pencils handy just in case.
Other than signing my name, I haven't written anything with cursive since I graduated from high school.
Yep, same here
quote:Originally posted by mark christian
Other than signing my name, I haven't written anything with cursive since I graduated from high school.
Yep, same here
Ditto. I have totally forgotten how to write some letters.I always print, 'cept for signatures.
My wife describes mine as connected printing. Spent too many years drafting drawings I guess. It has just become a habit.
after spending that much time in school drafting in pencil and ink, no I do not write in cursive. My signature is a stylized logo nothing legible..... Funny thing, my oldest daughter who is studying architecture is the same way and she is just getting started on lettering. She has a few years on it, but most of high school was all AutoCAD , now she really has to do hand lettering freehand...
As a lefty, cursive was very difficult for me. Even drafting, I had to be very careful not to smudge my work.
A different emphasis in schools, I suppose. Maybe it isn't worth the effort, but it seems we've lost something in our culture.
If you can find a fountain pen you will discover that you have to write much more carefully. Practice for just a while & you will see a major improvement.
All i use is cursive writing.
Ditto with very few exceptions.
Does anyone write in cursive anymore? I tried to copy a page from a book a few minutes ago just to see if I could and it looked like a first grader had written it.
I had no idea I had lost the ability to legibly write in cursive.
Pretty much ashamed of myself right now.[V]
You've been cursed![}:)]
I can write in cursive quicker than in print.[^]
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
My printing is so bad that when working our secretary did all my paperwork. I can write my numbers, but it takes a bit to read them.
The only reason I made it through school was because no one wanted to deal with me a second year. I read just fine. I was 25 years old when I had an eye Dr explain to me that I was right handed with left eye dominate. He then told me all the problems I had in school. [:)]
Odd how I could go to school for years and no one worried about my not being able to write more than my name. As it is now I just draw some doodle and that is it.
I can still write cursive, I attended Catholic school and the memory of sister Gulielma and her mahogany ruler with steel edge is enough incentive to keep it straight.
This made me smile. [:)] I don't think I was suited for Catholic schooling. Once in the 4th grade and a new student at the school, I sat in the front row just to the right of the teacher's desk. One day she whacked me across the fingers with the sharp edge of the ruler for some forgotten infraction. I stood up and snatched the ruler from her hand and broke it over my raised thigh, dropped it on the floor and told her to not ever do that again. I sat down and did not hear another word from her that I recall. [:D]
quote:Originally posted by Onehandude
I can still write cursive, I attended Catholic school and the memory of sister Gulielma and her mahogany ruler with steel edge is enough incentive to keep it straight.
This made me smile. [:)] I don't think I was suited for Catholic schooling. Once in the 4th grade and a new student at the school, I sat in the front row just to the right of the teacher's desk. One day she whacked me across the fingers with the sharp edge of the ruler for some forgotten infraction. I stood up and snatched the ruler from her hand and broke it over my raised thigh, dropped it on the floor and told her to not ever do that again. I sat down and did not hear another word from her that I recall. [:D]
In Marymount Catholic school in Rome that would have landed you in the school dungeon on the rack operated by assistant principal Father Baldassario, someone to rekon with who also had the full full backing of all parents, ouch [B)][B)][B)]
Kimi back in those days you would have surely suffered in catholic school [:D]
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
I often wonder how they will cope with the past, everything the founders wrote was cursive writing plus all through the years State, County, City, Military records, family record, birth certificates, death certificates and most important documents were all in cursive.
Maybe as time passes they will have people who specialize in reading cursive, so to speak, translate to print on a screen so the population will be able to understand our past history, for those interested in more than the Obama world
Almost the only cursive writing I do these days is in book inscriptions - and I mess up enough of those (which ruins the book) that I probably will begin printing all of them except for my signature - which is remarkably legible.
I still have to look at the keyboard and type with two fingers, despite 25 years as a writer. So we might say that my typing isn't much better than my writing.
They're both "cursive." They elicit curses.
quote:Originally posted by kimi
quote:Originally posted by Onehandude
I can still write cursive, I attended Catholic school and the memory of sister Gulielma and her mahogany ruler with steel edge is enough incentive to keep it straight.
This made me smile. [:)] I don't think I was suited for Catholic schooling. Once in the 4th grade and a new student at the school, I sat in the front row just to the right of the teacher's desk. One day she whacked me across the fingers with the sharp edge of the ruler for some forgotten infraction. I stood up and snatched the ruler from her hand and broke it over my raised thigh, dropped it on the floor and told her to not ever do that again. I sat down and did not hear another word from her that I recall. [:D]
In Marymount Catholic school in Rome that would have landed you in the school dungeon on the rack operated by assistant principal Father Baldassario, someone to rekon with who also had the full full backing of all parents, ouch [B)][B)][B)]
Kimi back in those days you would have surely suffered in catholic school [:D]
[:D]
Probably so. A counselor called my mother one day in 9th grade to tell her that I had to take three licks or be expelled, (known as a suspension nowadays), for something that I was not guilty of doing. The counselor got off the phone with my mother and told the principal that if my mind was made up that I would not change it. So I proudly took the three days off and no doubt enjoyed every bit of it.
[:D]
The next day I was riding my snow machine and went to the high school grounds because it was all flat and their was only about 6" of snow.I blasted around for a while then parked in back of the school,went in and used the restroom.
WHen I came out my Right glove(throttle hand) was GONE!! I rode home with my R hand freezing bad!! WHen I went back to school,I had a office referal slip waiting for me in home room.Went to principals office and there was my glove,sitting on his desk[:0][B)]
5 DAYS of DETENTION!!![V]
The average person will be given his cellphone or have a tracking device implanted.
Vaccination is mandatory in Cali now, so the sheep will be innoculated and tracked just like any herd.
We really need to just go back to the iron age and start again.
We really need to just go back to the iron age and start again.
That's coming but not by choice.