The Loss of Cursive Writing
Jun 25, 2019 15:46:33 #
Longshadow wrote:
Just wait until people of the future try to read historical documents.
If they follow the path of current folks, they won't be interested in trying to do so. Most kids today don't know anything that happened farther back than last week. Just wait until people of the future try to read historical documents.
Jun 25, 2019 15:46:45 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
We can use it to protect ourselves.
And we can further mystify the younger generation by magically calculating change at a grocery store or figuring a tip at a restaurant IN OUR HEADS!
Jun 25, 2019 15:47:55 #
Jun 25, 2019 16:09:11 #
Jun 25, 2019 16:20:32 #
nadelewitz
Loc: Ithaca NY
fourlocks wrote:
And we can further mystify the younger generation by magically calculating change at a grocery store or figuring a tip at a restaurant IN OUR HEADS!
Making change is just addition or subtraction. Too difficult for a high school grad.
Jun 25, 2019 17:40:50 #
we don't do sanskrit or heiroglyphs anymore. We don't do Latin. We don't do many of the foreign languages that have great scientific language. We can get English translations and Google will do a translation for us. No need to despair.
Jun 25, 2019 17:46:49 #
boberic wrote:
Some of the old things pass on (like cursive and slide rules), to be replaced by new things (programming and calculators). And every older generation bemoans the losses.
Jun 25, 2019 18:16:53 #
So true! I argued with kids school that i have never used algebra since i left school but use cursive writing (reading or writing) every day!!! Imaging leaving an important note on someone’s locker or desk in cursive and trey can’t read it!!!
Just saw a kids drivers license on fb where he signed his name and it was not cursive.
Just saw a kids drivers license on fb where he signed his name and it was not cursive.
Jun 25, 2019 18:34:36 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Some of the old things pass on (like cursive and slide rules), to be replaced by new things (programming and calculators). And every older generation bemoans the losses.
and, of course, Socrates thought that the written word was a step backwards
http://apt46.net/2011/05/18/socrates-was-against-writing/
Jun 25, 2019 19:46:09 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Some of the old things pass on (like cursive and slide rules), to be replaced by new things (programming and calculators). And every older generation bemoans the losses.
ROFLMAO!! I love this, and your comments are spot on I think.
Jun 26, 2019 15:29:50 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I'm still flabbergasted that cursive writing - script - is going the way of the buggy whip.
I'm not. Cursive writing has always been my enemy. There was that sixth grade teacher in 1970 who wanted me to write the capital "G" in cursive HIS way (as on the General Mills cereal box) and not the way I had been taught. He went as far as to dock me points on my papers for it. And then there's the "Q" that looks more like a "2". It is not standardized enough to become "a standard."
My printing is fine. In fact, I changed my printing as a teenager to speed it up so I could write faster than cursive while copying down Morse Code. Then I changed it back after passing my 20 words per minute test.
My signature is unintelligible and uncopyable. Works for me.
What bugs me is "old people script" stylized printing where the letters have little "tails" on the end of each line and the lines are all wobbly. With time, that will disappear along with cursive.
Jun 27, 2019 08:31:13 #
OlinBost
Loc: Marietta, Ga.
Back in the 50's Mad Magazine had a cartoon showing a small kid scribbling on a piece of paper. Next scene show him in middle school with improved had writing. Next in college his hand writing was the same as in middle school. Alas the next showed him signing his name and it was the same as the small kid's scribbling. Anyone else notice this? I cannot make out my college grad daughter's either.
Jun 27, 2019 16:51:51 #
one of my granddaughters just completed 2nd grade in May, and she was learning how to write in cursive in school.Small town ND.
Jul 9, 2019 10:26:05 #
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