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To: discostu

Cursive is antiquated and useless, it’s a different letter set that looks nothing like what you’ll see in books or on computers. There’s no reason to teach kids 2 versions of all the letters, there really never was.
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It is **PLAINLY** evident from these two sentences above that you were NOT properly taught how to either print or write in cursive.

If printing is **properly** taught the transition to cursive is seamless, absolutely effortless, and take no time whatsoever. Why? Because the formation of the letters in printing is **exactly** the same way cursive letters are made. There are **not** two sets of letters.

If you believe that there two versions of letters ( cursive and print) then I can understand why you would be completely frustrated with cursive. I am sorry your teachers mistreated you in this manner. Personally, I believe that the PTB ( the highest most powers that be) in education WANT citizens to be cut off from the wisdom of their past and this is exactly what will happen when they are unable to read the journals and letters of their ancestors.


66 posted on 06/17/2012 1:03:14 PM PDT by wintertime (Reforming a government K-12 school is like reforming an abortion mill.)
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To: wintertime
library of Congress has software that can read any font ~ whether cursive, or some custom made lead job ~ they use an heuristic method where a sample is made of the font found in the document throughout the work, determine what the letters really mean, then scan the whole thing and translate it on the fly with their original findings.

USPS owns software that can read any font, writing, or whatever ever devised anywhere at any time.

The machines won!

68 posted on 06/17/2012 1:23:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: wintertime

It’s **PLAINLY** evident from your post that you were NOT properly taught how to interact with people.

Really. Can all the ** and condescension and try again. Or don’t because every part of your post is wrong. It’s not a believe they ARE different sets of letter, cursive IS useless and not learning cursive doesn’t cut off anybody from anything.

Now if your next post is going to be a festival of condescending ** don’t bother to make it.


74 posted on 06/17/2012 2:31:56 PM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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