Posted on 12/23/2016 5:03:55 AM PST by Kaslin
“Cursive is a waste of time. I agree with the educational establishment.”
May your chains set lightly upon you...
Cursive is no more important than Helvetica, or Times New Roman, or any other font.
Typefaces and letter styles are irrelevant, and ninnies with their panties all in a bunch because their preference isn’t being catered to are as annoying as a kid throwing a rolling tantrum in the toy department of a department store.
When I first joined Ancestry.com and began doing family history, I struggled to read the early census records (written in cursive). Many were stunningly beautiful; a few awful. Now, it’s a real joy for me.
Google up “declaration of independence” images; it will take you to a page where you can blow up Jefferson’s first draft. Show it to a young kid; far too many cannot read it. I did this a while ago to a 14 YO - “I don’t read cursive” was the answer.
Wahhh! It’s too hard!
Can’t disagree. I’m lousy at cursive...got no better than a “C”. Computers don’t print in cursive. And anyone reading the constitution can always find one that’s beened typed.
And BTW I taught myself to use an abacus when I was a child. It's not easy to explain why but that knowledge made octal and hexadecimal addition and subtraction as simple for me as normal decimal arithmetic.
ML/NJ
Getting your own handwriting font sounds cool. Glad you were able to resurrect at least some of what you had before your physical problems
I have finally gotten the hang of gothic German type but continue to be stumped by the handwriting on original German documents.
In 1964, my second grade teacher told me that cursive writing would help me write faster. The transition and being forced to use it in all my classes only made me slower and unable to keep up as well as not wanting to write anything for anybody. My cursive handwriting was always terrible and still is. My signature is a scribble. Once I was out of high school, my signature was the only thing required in cursive, whether it was legible or not. All through college, and engineering career, not needed. Our founding documents have all been copied letter per letter into standard easy to read font in both hard copy and digital. Some might even be written in stone(not cursive mind you...)
Is that you, Torquemada?
< /snark >
We overlapped our service a few years...:)
Honestly, I am loathe to send emails for anything other than communications needed for specific purposes.
I can’t bring myself to write them for any kind of special occasion (Birthday, anniversary, whatever)
I have to write a card and snail-mail it...then again, I am someone who decries the clothes people wear to church, funerals, and dinners at fancy restaurants, meaning I cling to tradition.
At work the other day (I work at a hospital) they handed out Santa hats to anyone who wanted one (it was kind of a fun thing) so I took one and wore it around.
I have to say...I was uncomfortable, but not for the reason you think. I am someone who takes a hat off when I go indoors, especially when in a hospital (In the Navy, you always had to uncover if you went inside, specifically in a hospital) so I always do it if I go to a restaurant or any other indoor function.
While I had the hat on, I had a nagging feeling I was breaking a rule, and it became so distracting to me I had to remove it...:)
“I have finally gotten the hang of gothic German type but continue to be stumped by the handwriting on original German documents.”
Wow. I love the German language. If I were 20 years younger I would make it a major goal to learn it. I struggled for six months to get a bit of it which helped when we went to Austria but I can’t really get motivated to take it any further. It sounds like you are well advanced. Good for you.
I’ll bet she “cursives” (like a pirate)
I just changed out the batteries in my slide-rule.
Cutting through the education machine’s clatter, I translate the opposition to cursive a couple of ways:
1) We’re too lazy to teach it and kids are too stupid to learn it so why bother?
2) The time we spend teaching handwriting could better be used teaching why America is a racist, sexist hellhole and an utter failure as a political experiment.
I have a translation source for you [Fraktur].
Please FReepMail me for the contact.
Teletype machines printed in cursive? Not the ones I saw.
Reminds me of their battle against imperial units in favor of the metric system.
Earlier this month, you wrote “I care about the long term strength of the US Constitution”.
And now “Cursive is a waste of time.”?
Huh? The “long term strength” of a document depends on us being able to read it, not listen to some lefty tell us “what it really means”.
Heh, I tried to learn shorthand, but gave up. I thought it would be useful when I was in college at taking notes.
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