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@3967703f @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 I know cursive and I fear not its use!
@0e7dc019 I've been taking notes studying stuff for my new job. omg. I'm writing half cursive, half script in a not good way! I want to keep practicing, because this is not good.@1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8
@3967703f @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 Cursive is a dying art. There's just no pressing need for it, anymore. I noticed that in a very crude way when going over some family bullshit. Documents would get transited to digitized whenever I touched them. The originals were all in cursive. Most under 40s can't read that at all. Under 20s think cursive is just old timey bullshit. It used to be a whole world, though.
@0e7dc019 It certainly did. My mom won awards in school. Penmanship was a big deal. I read that people looking at old documents couldn't read those in cursive anymore. @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8
@3967703f @0e7dc019 @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 In young people's defense, plenty of them are interested in cursive and/or penmanship generally! Schools, however, have made the decision on whether it's important or not for them, and it has to become a hobby if they want to learn it. And that narrows the window of participation considerably.
@0e7dc019 @3967703f @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 I used to do calligraphy as a hobby. Now I type almost everything except the occasional check. I no longer carry a pen.