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I think a lot of students who grew up with ballpoints reached a similar conclusion. I knew a few and from time to time have used the strategy when legibility is
by megameter 6y ago
I think a lot of students who grew up with ballpoints reached a similar conclusion. I knew a few and from time to time have used the strategy when legibility is required.
Cursive was developed to work with traditional pens, and it really does not flow well on a ballpoint. But the school systems, of course, never made such a distinction.
- ddingus 6y agoTotally. I remember just quitting. 26 alphas + numbers and punctuation, and that's gonna be IT. One counter argument was legal signature requirements. Had a parent from city hall clear the law up for me. Was loaded for bear, and my little school really opposed not writing cursive. I remember a few of us, almost all boys going down the road. Interestingly quite a few girls ended up with a sort of print-script we see in cutsie fonts today. Went totally without comment!
- stan_rogers 6y ago"Cursive" means slanted. "Current" means joined-up (from the french "courant", literally "running"). Not all cursives are current - Chancery cursive, for instance - and most recent schoolroom current writing isn't cursive.
- danaris 6y agoThat may be what it means in a technical sense, but what most of us Americans were taught in elementary school was joined-up writing that was presented to us as "cursive," the only (and obviously much more sophisticated) alternative to "print".
- ddingus 6y agoThat was my experience exactly.