Cursive/Script Writing

[MetalPants]

There is no way in hell I could have kept up with note-taking in university lectures without writing in cursive.

Funny what a person gets used to. I'd regularly take 5-10 pages of notes per class, all in manuscript. I haven't written anything in cursive in over 15 years.

 

[Kestra]

I LOVE your handwriting. It's clearly legible, yet it looks free and easy, with some of the style of architect's lettering.

Not that I put much stock in determining personality traits from handwriting, but have you ever had your writing looked at by a graphoanalyst?

Thanks! No, I haven't ever really considered it. I'm curious now though!

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Most people are taught this early in grade-school, I think they started teaching it to me in the third grade or so. Supposedly it's supposed to better and faster because one can keep writing and not have to lift their hand off the page to start the next letter as in cursive all of the letters are strung together by loops and squiggles.

My school stopped "enforcing" this when I moved to a new town and started seventh grade teachers at the new school just didn't enforce it and said to use whatever writing style you were most comfortable with. Short of my signature I've not used cursive since.

And you should too. Or, at the very least, not use it when other people are going to read it. See, to me, the whole "writing without lifting the hand thing" breeds in the person laziness and the letters are so soft, curved, and flow together so nicely it is very, very easy for one to get lazy and just make random vaugely "letter shaped" forms.

One of the front-end girls asked me to help her read something on an order someone had placed for a pick-up delivery, the person who had written the order had used cursive writing and, well, it looked like how most cursive writing does after even a couple of years worth of non-conformity being enforced. We couldn't make heads or tails of it and I suggested she just call the customer and double-check the order to ensure you get it right and to reccomend to the other girls who take the order to write in standard, block, readable letters.

Cursive writing sucks. No adult in the universe uses it correctly in normal practice because the whole system just breeds and courages laziness and does little to "force" the writer to define their letters completely. It's almost impossible, not completely impossible mind you, to make block, "print" letters un-readable so long as they're not mushed together too much.

Write in print. Help people reading your handwriting understand what you meant.

I never use cursive. It's harder to write in cursive, anyway. I don't understand how it ever got to be the "standard." It cramps my hand up to write like that, always did, even in elementary school.

 

[Vanyel]

There is no way in hell I could have kept up with note-taking in university lectures without writing in cursive.

Funny what a person gets used to. I'd regularly take 5-10 pages of notes per class, all in manuscript. I haven't written anything in cursive in over 15 years.

From the job I had at the time I was in college, I learned a form of short hand that made it easy to take pages of notes.

Its nt tht hrd f u no wht 2 do, its vry simlr 2 txtng, but it prdats it by svrl yrs. I wrkd 4 a LD fne cmpny so myb we strtd it.

My job required me to note every contact I had with a customer, but we only had 10 lines to use; however the department I worked in our contacts were so long we usual required 2 more text boxes.

 

[RoJoHen]

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Its nt tht hrd f u no wht 2 do, its vry simlr 2 txtng, but it prdats it by svrl yrs. I wrkd 4 a LD fne cmpny so myb we strtd it.

This would be annoying for me. It's a lot more difficult for me to intentionally misspell words just to make them shorter. When I send a text message, I spell out everything, and I use proper grammar and punctuation.

 

[M'Sharak]

There is no way in hell I could have kept up with note-taking in university lectures without writing in cursive.

Funny what a person gets used to. I'd regularly take 5-10 pages of notes per class, all in manuscript. I haven't written anything in cursive in over 15 years.

Not sure what you mean here. "Manuscript" just means "handwriting," whether you're referring to cursive writing, printing or even shorthand.

 

[scotpens]

^ Strictly speaking, “manuscript” is synonymous with “handwriting” or “written by hand,” but I've also heard it used to mean print-style or detached lettering, as opposed to cursive.

I was taught that “printing” is what you do on a printing press.

 

[Marten]

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Its nt tht hrd f u no wht 2 do, its vry simlr 2 txtng, but it prdats it by svrl yrs. I wrkd 4 a LD fne cmpny so myb we strtd it.

This would be annoying for me. It's a lot more difficult for me to intentionally misspell words just to make them shorter. When I send a text message, I spell out everything, and I use proper grammar and punctuation.

You probably get used to it, plus you know wich wovels you wanted when you wrote it.

 

[scotpens]

. . . You probably get used to it, plus you know wich wovels you wanted when you wrote it.

Weawy?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I think Miss Chicken should take her medication and stop referring to herself in the third person

 

[scotpens]

^ If a grown woman goes around calling herself Miss Chicken, I think referring to herself in the third person is the least of her problems!

 

[Miss Chicken]

Miss Chicken isn't the craziest name we have had on Trekbbs.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ But is she the craziest person?

I mean, I know I'm nuts, but I've never done the third person thing.

Mind you, I've got several other mental disorders to keep us busy.


On topic, my signature is the only cursive-ish thing I do anymore. And that's completely illegible, so calling it cursive might be a stretch.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Nope, I could easily name several Trekbbs members crazier than Miss Chicken.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Ah, the weekly Cursive Thread. It's deja vu all over again.

In 2nd Grade, I was kind of the teacher's favorite-- class librarian and that sort of thing. The only thing I ever fought with her about was penmanship. I couldn't figure out why somebody would invent a second way of writing that was slower, harder to write and more difficult to read. Isn't writing supposed to be about communicating?

Anyway, I stopped with the cursive as soon as it was possible and relied strictly on printing. If I tried to use cursive now, it would look like a 2nd Grader.

Anyway, I always use joined-up writing ("cursive"). Sod anyone else who can't read it.

Spoken like a true physician.

Miss Chicken isn't the craziest name we have had on Trekbbs.

Not even close. At least it's pronounceable.

 

[Bloodwhiner]

I look at some students work and wonder if we are seeing a transition in communication. It is not uncommon for a student to do all their notes (and sometimes classwork) in texting format.

As I said earlier, if I can't read a student's answer, then it is wrong. Writing is communication, bother the writer and reader must understand it for it to be successful.

As for schools not allowing typing, that is to stop parents from doing the work. A not uncommon issue.

 

[MetalPants]

A story from my school days. I had typed up a paper for an english class, and it was a rough draft. As part of the class, we would critique each other's papers. Well, the person who read mine saw nothing wrong, and thought that it should go ahead and be turned in as a final draft. The teacher understood all of this, but refused to accept the paper that day because it was just "rough draft day". So I stuck my paper in a folder and turned it in the next day.

The same teacher once complained that my handwriting was too small, and demanded that I rewrite a paper. So, I turned a page and half report into a ten pager.

She never commented on my writing again.

 

[T'Baio]

I look at some students work and wonder if we are seeing a transition in communication. It is not uncommon for a student to do all their notes (and sometimes classwork) in texting format.

I've had classes where Prof's have sent email to the class saying they won't accept essays that include texting lingo like "lol."



First, to use texting lingo in an essay should be an automatic disqualification from university, because you are retarded. But what academic essay would require you to use "lol" in the first place!?!

One of my classes handed in its essays a couple weeks ago, and the Prof sent out an email teaching people how to break up paragraphs because she had been receiving too many papers that were one huge 20 page chunk of single spaced text!!! What, what, whaaaaat? More than one of these? Thankfully she said she would fail any papers that were written that way.

*facepalm* What is this world coming to?

 

[SeerSGB]

I look at some students work and wonder if we are seeing a transition in communication. It is not uncommon for a student to do all their notes (and sometimes classwork) in texting format.

I've had classes where Prof's have sent email to the class saying they won't accept essays that include texting lingo like "lol."



First, to use texting lingo in an essay should be an automatic disqualification from university, because you are retarded. But what academic essay would require you to use "lol" in the first place!?!

One of my classes handed in its essays a couple weeks ago, and the Prof sent out an email teaching people how to break up paragraphs because she had been receiving too many papers that were one huge 20 page chunk of single spaced text!!! What, what, whaaaaat? More than one of these? Thankfully she said she would fail any papers that were written that way.

*facepalm* What is this world coming to?

This is actually-- around here-- a big debate among some homeschoolers: Teach "old" English ( ugh) or teach l33t/txt speak to get the kiddies ready for the real world. I know of at least one family that is teaching their kids only net speak and only typing-- no handwriting, calculator no basic math first.

 

[T'Baio]

...teach l33t/txt speak to get the kiddies ready for the real world. I know of at least one family that is teaching their kids only net speak and only typing-- no handwriting, calculator no basic math first.

The Idiocracy comes true.