It's interesting to note how many people here are commenting on the inefficiency of writing in the cursive style. This got me thinking about the role of handwr

It's interesting to note how many people here are commenting on the inefficiency of writing in the cursive style. This got me thinking about the role of handwriting today. I imagine that our English script originated (probably from Latin) as a way of either carving text on rock or writing with a feather pen. It probably wasn't designed with speed in mind. The same with the East, where Chinese characters were originally designed to be written with a brush vertically, and not in a fast manner using a pen. (Even they have something almost like cursive script called "grass script"). Thankfully (?) I was sent to a rather intensive school where I learnt cursive writing at young age, and had to use it in all my written work. I'm surprised to say that NONE of my friends today know how to write in it. This speaks for itself as to how inefficient cursive writing is since noone really cares for it. There are "shorthand" methods I've heard of, but I guess I've just been too lazy to learn them: http://www.alysion.org/handy/althandwriting.htm http://www.alysion.org/handy/althandwriting.htm http://www.omniglot.com/writing/shorthand.htm http://www.omniglot.com/writing/shorthand.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand