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I learned to write with fountain pens. Fountain pens are a delight to write with, in cursive. Who is going to (be able to) read my cursive writings? Just as
by WaitWaitWha 3y ago
I learned to write with fountain pens. Fountain pens are a delight to write with, in cursive.
Who is going to (be able to) read my cursive writings? Just as I am, fountain pens and cursive writing are of the past and to be reminisced over for a short period, then forgotten.
- JohnFen 3y agoThe first eight years of my education involved many hours learning to write cursive. The only thing I still know how to write in cursive is my name, although I can still read it. But, honestly, I don't think that's a bad thing. Writing in cursive is not a necessity, it's an art form. And I am no artist.
- m463 3y agoThe only writing I do nowadays is in (horrendous) cursive. my signature.
- falcolas 3y agoSignatures are more line art than cursive. They're intended to be roughly unique and roughly repeatable, not legible.
- earthling8118 3y agoWhat's wrong with using them for regular writing? I don't write cursive. At all, at least not since I learned it in school. I quite like my fountain pen. I used other pens my whole life and it just felt right when I tried it. They don't write all that different than a ballpoint.
- WaitWaitWha 3y ago> ... regular writing ... :D My experience with fountain pen 'print writing' is drips and sloppiness. This happens because the tip has to be picked up between each letter and the tines will have some extra ink on them, making drips more likely.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoI can't even read my own cursive, let alone anyone else's. I basically didn't learn how to write in school for like 4 years because somehow that's how long it took my teachers to realise I was incapable of writing cursive readable by anyone, including them, and stop forcing me to write in it. This was around the turn of the millennium, so not that long ago, but all the teachers were old and set in their ways. Terrible school, just terrible.