Posted on 12/23/2016 5:03:55 AM PST by Kaslin
It is more important in this case. Too much of our most important history is recorded in cursive, and not just the Constitution either.
Without the ability to analyze original documents or other writings themselves, one opens themselves up to those who would rewrite history. And the left is bent on erasing most of our glorious history. Why? To minimize resistance to making us cogs in the NWO wheel, like any other country.
I don’t think ou’re looking at the big picture here.
See my #36.
Writing cursive requires a higher form of intelligence then what liberals possess.
Well, you could run it through MS-Paint and do some scratchouts.
Post O’ The Thread.
Oddly over time my cursive has improved and I am often complimented about my nice handwriting.
The Palmer method.....know it, live it, own it
Read what I said again. Especially the part about “...the only printed communications I had.....”
>> “Cursive is obsolete for the simple reason that writing is obsolete.”
Uh, can you say “EMP”? “North Korea”? “Iran”?
It would take more time and effort to learn for sure, but once learned it would seem to be much more useful than cursive.
Freegards
You don’t have to sign for anything?
My genealogy work is what got me motivated to reactivate my high school Deutsch. Recently I have been using Duolingo on my device to accelerate my learning.
If any of these snowflakes try to do their ancestry or study old documents they will have to hire someone to “translate” documents and have someone to read the Constitution and Bill of Rights to them.
Bonus points for obscure “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” reference.
Utter nonsense
>> “I have finally gotten the hang of gothic German type but continue to be stumped by the handwriting on original German documents.”
Guess you’re talking about Suetterlinschrift:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin
Agreed. “I’ve tried; G-d knows I’ve tried!”
I don’t know...to me, reading cursive and writing it are (to me) two different things.
Writing cursive is akin to knowing a language.
Reading cursive is akin to simple interpolation-kind of like knowing Spanish, and being able to noodle out the meaning of something in Italian or French that you don’t know, simply because you know Spanish.
Cursive can be so variable, but...after your figure out how someone makes their “e” and “i” and so on, then you just hit a word you can’t immediately figure out, and you interpret it contextually, and you have that figured out.
I guess I completely understand why people don’t write it, I just don’t understand why someone can’t read it.
I think you nailed it right there.
You sir are delusional
To not be able to read for ourselves our founding documents puts all citizens in a dangerous position
The idea that electronic communications are the only type of the future says that you will not do well when power outages occur. If they last long you will not survive as well as others
Education is for free men, while mere training is for slaves. Those with the ability to read, think and communicate offline maintain the spark of liberty that cannot be threatened by lack of access to the hive. Banishing cursive is just one more tool to enforce a Utilitarian State in which individuals have no intrinsic worth apart from their material usefulness to the State.
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