Do U know how to write in cursive?

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Hawkeye10

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I have not done it in 35-40 years, I tend to doubt it.....but I can still read it.

Thoughts that happen in The Land Of HAWKEYE.
 
It's coming back in fashion. It's proven to help memory and learning, as if it stopped doing that for a while or something. Allowing poorly educated educators to subject grade school policies and teaching methods to the latest marketing fads from hustlers like laptop computer marketers has always been a bad idea.
 
EdwinA said:
It's coming back in fashion. It's proven to help memory and learning, as if it stopped doing that for a while or something. Allowing poorly educated educators to subject grade school policies and teaching methods to the latest marketing fads from hustlers like laptop computer marketers has always been a bad idea.
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Evasion....which coming from you is not the least bit shocking.
 
I mix cursive with block lettering when I hand write stuff. It's faster than just writing out each letter and it's easier to read than cursive. This is sometimes referred to as a "journaling style" of writing.
 
I'll admit to some atrophy here. I don't use checks, so outside of my signature, it really isn't a thing.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I have not done it in 35-40 years, I tend to doubt it.....but I can still read it.

Thoughts that happen in The Land Of HAWKEYE.
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Yes, I do know how to read and write in cursive. I normally write in a fashion that is a combination of cursive and print.
 
zymurgy said:
I'll admit to some atrophy here. I don't use checks, so outside of my signature, it really isn't a thing.
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I still use checks. I still sign documents, including a physical time sheet. I still write words down on paper from time to time.

In all instances, I usually either write in cursive or a print/cursive combination.
 
gfm7175 said:
I still use checks. I still sign documents, including a physical time sheet. I still write words down on paper from time to time.

In all instances, I usually either write in cursive or a print/cursive combination.
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online checks for banking. I don't pay for postage either
 
zymurgy said:
online checks for banking. I don't pay for postage either
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Huh. I still use physical checks in a checkbook (and reconcile bank statements), and I still use postage (although less often now than before). Probably odd for a millennial, but whatever. Participating in this sort of online discussion forum as a millennial might also be odd.
 
gfm7175 said:
Huh. I still use physical checks in a checkbook (and reconcile bank statements), and I still use postage (although less often now than before). Probably odd for a millennial, but whatever. Participating in this sort of online discussion forum as a millennial might also be odd.
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online banking allows we to write a check - and provide an address - and they mail it....or send it electronically depending on who I am paying.

it is a free service - so no postage needed.

I'm in my mid 50's - but also a tech guy
 
I am of an age that a lot of time was spent on it at school, I have heard that in some places no time is spent on it now as it is considered useless because most of our writing has been typing for a long time now. Now increasingly we dont do that we simply speak, with some predicting that at some point text will itself mostly go away. Connected to this maybe is that for several decades book reading has been going away, and now even mags are on very hard times.

I am not convinced that this is all to the good.
 
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My son has bragged that he got through HS without ever reading a book. A few months back I saw a YouTube from a quitting teacher saying that increasingly teachers dont feel that they can even ask students to read books because they wont. She also said that there are some in education who dont want kids to read books and come to like reading books, only snips of text are to be used in the classroom, up to maybe three paragraphs. I dont understand the reason for pushing youth away from reading books, but it cant be good.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am of an age that a lot of time was spent on it at school, I have heard that in some places no time is spent on it now as it is considered useless because most of our writing has been typing for a long time now. Now increasingly we dont do that we simply speak, with some predicting that at some point text will itself mostly go away. Connected to this maybe is that for several decades book reading has been going away, and now even mags are on very hard times.

I am not convinced that this is all to the good.
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It won't be. Books are damn near forever. That is, they'll be around for centuries and have been around for centuries. Stuff on the internet isn't like that. It comes and goes. You have some individual make a great website on something but it only lasts until that person dies or stops maintaining it. It might end up as a screenshot or two of some part of it on the Wayback Machine, but that doesn't fix the problem.

It's like going back to ancient times when even if things were written down they got lost and then had to be reinvented or rediscovered.

I like old school catalogs for materials and such. When I did the lighting in my kitchen I had several thick catalogs of light fixtures from various manufacturers. It took me just a few minutes to discover what looked like the best choices, some of which weren't even ones I'd considered. It would have taken me far longer on the internet and I likely wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the same level of satisfaction with the final product.
 
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