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its horrible its never exusable

44 (41.9%)

it has its uses but sometimes print is better

56 (53.3%)

all writing should be cursive

5 (4.8%)

Total Members Voted: 101

[tuypo1]

can we take a moment out of our days to discuss just how ridiculous cursive writing is

[Darvi]

I personally find the effort to lift and lower the pen in between letters too much to bother with regular writing. Considering that my handwriting is unreadable either way, it doesn't make a difference anyway.

[tuypo1]

I personally find the effort to lift and lower the pen in between letters too much to bother with regular writing. Considering that my handwriting is unreadable either way, it doesn't make a difference anyway.

why cant I stop laughing at that last line

[BFEL]

I personally find the effort to lift and lower the pen in between letters too much to bother with regular writing. Considering that my handwriting is unreadable either way, it doesn't make a difference anyway.

This, so much this.

I was like the ONLY person in school who used cursive when not specifically asked to.
Including the teachers.

I can only imagine they still have voodoo dolls in my likeness o.o

[TamerVirus]

-forced to learn it third grade onwards
-write horribly
-reach highschool
-write cursive on heavy writing history test
-POINT DEDUCTION: UNREADABLE
-well fuck
-back to print....FOREVER!

[Samarkand]

Cursive is excellent. It allows better flow from thought to paper while encrypting your word to the untrained or lazy eye. Print's just scrawl by comparison.

Alternative: Type. Always. Faster, actually legible, and if you want you could actually encrypt it. If you practice keyboarding its not difficult to crank out pages of writing while having a conversation with someone else, or at the very least taking your visual attention off of the keyboard. This is much more difficult if you try it with writing, since you have to align your letters manually. Also, j and ; actually look different!

[tuypo1]

I was not expecting such divided opinion I was expecting most would agree with me its good seeing what you all have to say though im going to set up a poll

[Baffler]

I prefer cursive, for my own use anyway. If I'm writing something that is intended for someone else, I almost never use it because a) they couldn't read it because it's cursive, or b) they can't read it because it's my long, spidery cursive.

[Orange Wizard]

Cursive is excellent. It allows better flow from thought to paper while encrypting your word to the untrained or lazy eye. Print's just scrawl by comparison.

+1

Except I can't cursive. At all. I can write in Phoenician, but fancy English is too difficult.

[Criptfeind]

Cursive fails the first test of being a writing system, in that it's unable to transmit information from one person to another. Therefor I think cursive is basically worthless.

Although seriously. Yeah. Cursive is actually pretty awful. I sorta wonder how long (if that's even still a thing) people are going to be tought it. Past elementary school the only time I use cursive is for signing my name, but really, I just make up swirly patterns that look vaguely right for that, hell, I've even been told that's a better way of doing it because it makes my signature harder to forge.

[Elephant Parade]

Cursive is super-fast, but many people can't read it. It's great for notes, if you know it, but horrible for anything you need other people to be able to read.

[Mech#4]

I write with my letters connected, though it's still quite legible as it's not fully curvy/wavy. I can read cursive since my grandparents write in full cursive and that's far more flowery than mine.

This is how I was taught. It's not full on curves upon curves but is linking letters together.

It does let me write faster, but my biggest hurdle is not having a death-grip on my pen while writing. Years of using cheap biros does that.

[tuypo1]

I write with my letters connected, though it's still quite legible as it's not fully curvy/wavy. I can read cursive since my grandparents write in full cursive and that's far more flowery than mine.

This is how I was taught. It's not full on curves upon curves but is linking letters together.

It does let me write faster, but my biggest hurdle is not having a death-grip on my pen while writing. Years of using cheap biros does that.

kinda derailing but i would like to mention that i always had to use cheap biros because i lost my pens all the time also chewed them to hell but thats interesting yeah connected letters arent to bad as long as there not curvy

[Lyeos]

I can't even read my own writing when I print the letters half the time.
Needless to say, cursive is out for me, except for signing my name.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's useless. Even signatures are just a tradition that will probably be replaced sooner rather than later with an electronic alternative.