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ummmm yes
Can everyone read it.... ummm no
Can I read it? .... ummm sometimes....
 
Like Tacori, I ONLY write in cursive when I have a choice. You should see my printing, looks like an ape did it.
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I write in cursive if I''m writing letters or cards to people, otherwise I write in regular letters.

I have nice penmanship regardless, though.
 
I practice cursive regularly. I write my favorite quotes in cursive.
 
Cursive is pretty much standard around here. I can''t think of many people who use print.
 
Yep. Excellent cursive. Although I don''t try as hard as I used to and mostly it shows. But when I pay attention (and really, it takes writing more deliberately and slowly, which most people are not willing to do) it is always there for me. I also can do some better than decent calligraphy with pen and nib and have done a fair share of award certificates for money. Italic, Old English, half-Uncial (at one time, that one is tricky because you have to write AND twist the pen at points).
 
I used to write in quite good cursive and actually won awards in elementary school for my penmanship (maybe no other teacher entered a candidate?). Now, my cursive, and even lower case printing is horrible. Our DGD is happy to point it out too
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Yes, I do write in cursive; however, years of documenting client progress notes have caused increasingly illegible penmanship. You learn to write fast, so you don''t forget the content of the session
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I can but I don't. I'll admit for a while there I was pretty rusty on a couple letters, but now that all of my kids have "learned" it it's all come back. I think it's pretty lame though, personally. It's nice to be able to read it and there are occasions where some may need to write it, but overall I think it's a waste of time to teach it in the schools other than maybe some practice reading it. I don't find it charming at all, I find it annoying. It is more difficult to read and is too formal. Don't even get me started on "d'nealian".

ETA: Sorry if my opinion on this offends anyone - it's such a trivial thing I hope no one holds it against me :)

also - as much as I have been irritated at my children learning d'nealian, it is actually probably the closest to how I write. When my kids were little I learned it to write clearly to them and it stuck. It offers ability to stylize without being too ornate/formal or too stiff/clinical. Maybe I don't hate it as much as I thought lol
 
Date: 3/4/2010 10:35:49 AM
Author: Dancing Fire
Date: 3/4/2010 10:27:18 AM

Author: Tacori E-ring

Not sure you would consider me well educated but I ONLY write in cursive
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yeah,but is it legible?
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Mine is actually legible and reasonably attractive, but I still don''t prefer it. I use the mish mash approach.

BTW - you should see chinese in mish mash... well, maybe you have DF :D
 
Nope. I don''t even try. Everything I write is script. My first name starts with one of those how-the-heck-did-they-come-up-with-this-shape letters that I simply stopped trying to master. Now, I just use the more user-friendly lower-case version. I only write in cursive for my signature or a passive aggressive note that I don''t want traced back to me. (mostly kidding about the last one).
 
Date: 3/4/2010 11:09:12 AM
Author: Karl_K
ummmm yes

Can everyone read it.... ummm no

Can I read it? .... ummm sometimes....
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Haha ditto this.

No actually while I *can* write cursive I don''t. Except on checks for some reason. Those ancient paper money-transferring slips. Otherwise I never got in the habit of writing in cursive. While I did turn in some typed papers in middle and high school (and even one monster assignment in elementary school!), my pre-college work was still mostly handwritten and I printed everything - it was faster and neater and then it was self-perpetuating: cursive gets slower and printing gets faster. I graduated college a decade ago, and by then all my essays or paragraph-answer-type assignments were typed unless they were part of an in-class exam, though anything with math or calculations in it was usually handwritten.

But now I find that even my printing is suffering because I don''t use it enough. And I just finished grad school last year. I can''t take notes fast or neat enough when I go to lectures - my hands are out of practice. But I type pretty well now, and that''s mostly from doing it all the time rather than any class I took.
 
I teach my kindergarten class to write in cursive, not print. Most learn how to write in print without being taught.
Upper grades not are so busy teaching for standardized testing that they don''t have the time to tach cursive.
 
Date: 3/4/2010 11:07:22 AM
Author: gemgirl
I actually had to look up 'cursive'. We call it script. Yes, I can. How could anyone write a card or a note to someone, or sign a check if they can't write in script? Or just sign your name?
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You don't have to write in cursive, that's how. Signatures might not necessarily be in "script" either. I don't see how writing a card or note has to be in cursive?
ETA- I think the norm has changed for this. We never learned to write these things in cursive, just the proper format.

My cursive is excellent by the way, and I'm 22. No one in my teaching class can do the whole alphabet perfectly! I thought that was shocking.
 
Yes, I absolutely can write in cursive! As a teacher, it absolutely blows my mind that so many young people cannot write or read cursive! We do try to teach them cursive here, but many of them have exactly the attitude you mentioned- I type everything on the computer, I don''t really need to know this!
 
I just realized that I can''t anymore. I was taught how, but I''ve transitioned into using a mix of cursive and print for so long, that I can''t recall how to make a true uppercase cursive "S" when I tried to write my name.

I''m 27.
 
Date: 3/4/2010 10:30:15 AM
Author: Hudson_Hawk
Yes, I learned how in the second grade. However the cursive I learned is not the beautiful penmanship my mother, father and grandparents have. Their handwriting is gorgeous and I've always been really envious of it. My day-to-day handwriting is now a mix of cursive and standard writing.
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Ditto to all of that.
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My sister has this incredibly fantastic and distinctive cursive that she writes in, cool enough that her friends that are graphic designers wanted to make a font out of it, LOL!

Mine... is a messy blend of cursive and printing. And I just tried to write a sentence in all cursive and struggled a bit!

ETA: My husband has horrible penmanship. His buggest struggle with the bar exam was the essay portion. Not because of the questions, but because of the writing involved!!!
 
Well I mustn''t be an educated PS''er because I didn''t even know what it was till Samantha Red explained what it is. I don''t used joined up letters but I do write in italic form. Is that almost the same thing?
 
I do write in cursive if I am writing thank you notes or something like that. I used to write letters years ago and wrote all of them in cursive. My daughters who are 15 and 17 think cursive is weird and never write in it. If they have to write a thank you note, they would print it. I think it''s actually kind of sad. Another "nicety" pretty much gone.
 
Yes, I can write in cursive. My normal handwriting is a mix of the two.

What gets me is people that sign their names, as in their signature which is supposed to be cursive, in print.
 
All I write is cursive and my style is excellent! People ask me to write invitations for them because their writing is so bad. My local school district has now dropped cursive from the curriculum because they deem it useless. Too bad. Another lost art. My printing on the other hand totally stinks!
 
Date: 3/4/2010 10:20:57 AM
Author:Dancing Fire
can you write in CURSIVE? be honest now!!
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ever since the computer age i have noticed many young well educated student with a college diploma whom can''t or know how to write in cursive,b/c all of their school reports,home works were typed up on a computer.
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now,that''s a pet peeve of mine!!. how the hell they graduated from college?
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I had a conversation a lot like this recently. Most of my profs in college expected all drafts and finals to be typed. MLA format or whatever the school was requiring at that time. In college, I don''t think I ever did anything worth value without a computer. My parents were very big on penmanship while I was growing up, so I was forced to write a lot at home. A lot of times as punishment, I would have to write letters of apology to whomever I wronged. My grammar, penmanship and punctuation had to be perfect. I was talking about this with a friend I attended a summer camp with for the better part of 12 years. Every summer we had absolutely NO connection to technology. After lunch, when the mail arrived, was the highlight of our days. We wrote letters home and to friends hoping to get something in return. We kept in touch over the winters via handwritten letters as well. Come to think of it, those girls and I (not to toot my own horn
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) probably have some of the prettiest handwriting I have ever seen. But, that is all tossed to the wayside in the age of technology. When was the last time someone actually wrote a letter? I have even noticed that "thank you" notes are via email now...not sure where I stand on that....but, I digress. My BFF is a teacher and her students all have laptops that the school district distributed and assigned all students. While it might be beneficial for certain things, I can''t see how that is contributing to developing handwriting. Also, how does anyone learn how to spell!? With spell check and auto grammar correction, who needs to have any sense of eloquence!? Off the soapbox...
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I only write in cursive...I dont know if I can write in anything else except keyboard.
 
Date: 3/4/2010 10:37:31 AM
Author: trillionaire
I combine cursive and standard script. I also mix my letters from word to word... for example, some little A''s will have caps, others won''t. Some big A''s will be normal tee-pee style A''s, and other''s will look like big versions of the capless ones.

I sometimes get nervous that this means that I am schizophrenic, or at the very least suffer from high degrees of cognitive dissonance. I mean, I''m sure there is SOME rhyme or reason to it, but little enough that it worries me to think about.

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This program intrigues me... Change Your Handwriting, Change Your Life...
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I do this too and it makes NO SENSE why I do it, it just happens. lol
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Yep I can still write in cursive.
 
Hi DF,

Am I well educated?.....Yes, I am Dr. RHL.

Can I write in cursive.....Yes, I can.

Do I write in cursive?...Nope, it looks too untidy and no-one can read it!!!!
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Date: 3/4/2010 1:30:18 PM
Author: stephb0lt
I just realized that I can''t anymore. I was taught how, but I''ve transitioned into using a mix of cursive and print for so long, that I can''t recall how to make a true uppercase cursive ''S'' when I tried to write my name.

I''m 27.
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you can''t write your own name ?
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I write exclusively in cursive.
 
Date: 3/4/2010 10:44:47 AM
Author: sbde
yes! we were forced to write using ink pens in my school because ballpoints were the death of beautiful penmanship according to my teachers.
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It''s degraded somewhat now, though.
 
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