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on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
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.
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @11:05PM
Incidentally, I wrote an 8 page letter IN CURSIVE today to one of my prisoner correspondents. Why do I write by hand instead of type it? Simple. I enjoy writing in cursive, and with a fountain pen to boot! Am I crazy? Nope. I'm better for it. Writing by hand is far more enjoyable than writing with a computer. Furthermore, there is something that writing by hand adds to the creative process. I can't tell you what it is but it is there.
Totally subjective and a lot like the vacuous "It builds character!" argument.
There is another reason why using cursive is important. There are always going to be occasions when a person needs to take paper notes. I'm not certain about other people's abilities, but I must write in cursive in order to write comfortably and quickly. I find it uncomfortable to print more than a few words on paper.
Subjective at best. There are countless people who can print better than they can write in cursive; legibility matters.