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Originally Posted by bbro
As far as I know, you can't take a computer in to do the essay tests.
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from Retief: "Before we all either mourn or celebrate the death of Cursive, I'd like to question the evidence here. At least one piece of it seems to be the low percentage of essays on the SAT done in Cursive. Every school, book, or website that gives tips or training on doing well on the SAT includes heavy emphasis on legibility. Along with 1. have a thesis, 2. give examples, and 3. use connecting phrases, comes 4. Make It Legible. The SAT essay isn't a sample of high school students' handwriting, it is a sample of what high school students produce when told that legibility is paramount and that if the graders can't make out a word in less than one second they will ignore it. So reports of its death may be premature.
That said, whether you write cursive or print, the ability to write longhand quickly and reasonably legibly is clearly an advantage in many post high school situations. Which, of course, is the point of cursive. When it is done right it is basically sped up printing."
Now that I live in a foreign country, I always carry a little pocket notebook and jot down info--language, names, etc.--in a fraction of the time it would take to do it electronically on some thingamabob.
Whoever said above that they missed those old boxes of letters reminded me of my grandfather's beautiful script. He was taught the old Palmer method in the early 1900's and it was just amazing to look at and read. Probably pretty slow but, combined with his flowery prose, he got a lot of chicks writing like that. I guess I should say "thank God".
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I learned the cursive, but abandoned it after a year because my own style was already faster and more fun to me.
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For those that print, no prob, just print fast, however cursive is faster still.
It's interesting to note the fascination that the people here, especially, have with their own handwriting. Whether y'all (sorry, I'm "Southern") like or dislike your handwriting is not so important as the fact that there is an interest, however keen or morbid, with the finished example of the complex (hand, eye and brainwise) task of producing an imprint of one's individuality for the world to see. I mean, there's no such thing as "graphoanalysis" on a keyboard-produced document. The fact that people who are more interested in self-expression--yes, I mean right here in the Cellar-- have more of an interest in the life or death of Cursive than those who know the minutiae of shallow pop-culture, i.e., who so-and-so celeb is dating or just a wee bit too sports-crazy (watching, not doing) gleaned from too much f****** television.
In several posts above, people talk about the individuality of each person's handwriting--no two are alike, right? and indeed mood-dependent--and a certain sublament about the loss of this (ahem) Window to the Soul. I type blazingly fast without a singtnle maisthtke and I guess we have to in order to communicate so much to so many in the course of the day. Still, I hope the current trend of losing the art of Cursive will slow, then stop, then start creeping back...hopefully.
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Originally Posted by Flint
Synchronicity. I was going to start a thread where people post bits of their hand-writing. (I'm obsessed with mine...)
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What a cool idea! Underscoring the point that anybody that likes Frank Zappa has got SOMETHING going on...
oh, yeah, interesting article:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/...709225,00.html
Okay, I'll shut up now. <collective sigh of relief>