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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm a millennial. I was also taught cursive for absolutely no reason.

First of all, why? It's supposed to be easier/quicker to write things down using cursive but honestly, I can't understand people's chicken scratch cursive anyways, so it's basically meaningless. You might as well give someone a list of scribbles and just have them call you later for what it should say.

That's basically it. Signatures, sure, maybe, but bluntly, who gives a damn?

Fuck cursive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

Just practice drawing this single letter while I get over my wine hangover for the next 40 minutes. Heaven forbid someone gets bored and acts out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

I can barely read my own cursive if I try to write fast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I find it quicker to write in a mix of cursive and regular if taking notes

It's way neater in cursive

Also peoples handwriting skills have absolutely tanked since typing and computers became widespread

If you were writing constantly you generally had decent hand writing. Growing up, when I was really young, like 3 to 6, we were also graded on the legibility when learning to write

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

You and I have had very different experiences.

Anyone who has written anything for me in cursive, I have had difficulty understanding, or could not decipher what was written.

My cursive skills never really matured, so maybe that's the problem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

training fine motor skills at a young age is worth nothing.. gotcha :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There are better ways to accomplish that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

might be true... but you don't learn writing cursive with those ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

And? Playing games has been a far better use of my time than learning cursive.

Times I've written in cursive: nil.

Games I've played: more than nil.