The New Yorker wonders:
My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can't escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every year, there are worried articles about the decline of cursive and its omission from school curricula. And there's a backlash, one that I secretly cheer for. When I read that Washington state is now considering Senate Bill 6469, "an act related to requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools," I gave a little fist pump in the air.
Cursive and handwriting are dead. Communication of the future will be done with pure emoticons.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday November 02 2016, @02:39PM
i was always a printing person, even to the point i had to go around in circles with the first bank account i got where they wanted to make me change my all caps signature to something cursivey... it is written in a distinctive manner, not just regular block letters anyone could copy, but being nominally non-cursive signature, they didnt want to allow it... they did...