this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

As soon as my school said cursive was no longer mandatory, I immediately stopped using it. Garbage, pure garbage. I've had a job that involved coming into contact with a lot of papers where people are still choosing to write in cursive, and it is consistently the most unreadable spaghetti I have had the misfortune to look at.

By all means find ways to transcribe old works written in cursive - into print, but stop trying to revive this shitty writing style, it deserves to die.

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

It lent to faster writing at the time before texting was the thing. Writing out each letter without running into another takes more effort. But yeah, doctors using cursive for prescriptions is a garbage fire.

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

I know what cursive was for, I was there. Writing something hypothetically faster has no value when the thing written is too illegible to read, which cursive virtually always is. The fact that block writing probably is a little slower to write is exactly what makes it more consistently readable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Ok calm down. I didn’t invent the thing. Just relaying what I know.