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Always boggles my mind that some people can't write cursive. So you write each letter one by one?
by world2vec 2mo ago
Always boggles my mind that some people can't write cursive. So you write each letter one by one?
- yoz-y 2mo agoYes. When I write cursive and want to be able to read after myself I need to write very slowly and deliberately. All my childhood I optimized my cursive writing for speed. Most teachers I had only valued note taking, not thinking about what is written.
- Aaronstotle 2mo agoI haven't written cursive in many years, i should try it again but since i'm out of practice i find it takes more time to write than going print. Which of course does lead to hand cramps etc
- nephihaha 2mo agoYou need to practice it. It's a survival skill. You'll never know when you'll need it.
- doublepg23 2mo agoI'm almost 30 and I haven't run into a "survival situation" where I needed cursive. I would hazard a guess it falls below knowing Spanish but above folding origami cranes.
- nephihaha 2mo agoNo, definitely not. Although it depends where you are. If you are near South America etc, then Spanish would be useful to know. I have used it before when I've lost a phone etc, or if I had no way of contacting someone otherwise. I can think of more dramatic situations too. Technology can be helpful but if you're overreliant on it then that is a potential weakness.
- julienchastang 2mo agoUmmm, yes. Especially for those of us who may have had less than ideal schooling.
- underlipton 2mo agoI connect letters that are easy to connect and pick up my pen on others. Anything that flows into the next, cursive. Anything where you have to contort and lead in or out with fiddly little bits and then just write the letter anyhow, I just skip all that and write it plain.
- pavon 2mo agoSort of. For most letters, my print strokes are the same motion as cursive (except r and s) but lifting up the pen between letters/strokes. Even when I was practiced in cursive, I never felt like it added any time to lift and lower the pen, any more than the time it already took to move the pen to the right, but doing so improved legibility. Its not like I'm consciously thinking about each letter, unlike caligraphy or drafting block print.