Aw, honey

[checkers65477]

Conversation with a student this week:

Me: ...so, if you want to put a reserve on a book, you just write the title and your name here, and we'll let you know when the book is ready for you to pick up.
Student:  *writes*
Student, looks up at me, eyebrow raised: You can read cursive, can't you?

I assured him that not only can I read cursive, I can actually write it, too.

F-list--can you???

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[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Ha, I just stumbled upon this conversation (very late--hope you don't mind me chiming in). My mom taught me cursive when was 9 or 10. You're right, it's much faster for taking notes, and I like using it for formal occasions, but I also have an artistic style of printing I developed back in my teen I'm-going-to-be-a-freaking-artist years and I prefer to use that for most other things. I remember signing the attendance form in driver's ed (I always use cursive when signing my name) and the girl next to me exclaimed, "YOUR HANDWRITING IS LIKE... LIKE...A FONT OR SOMETHING!" I'm still trying to decide if it's persnickety of me to find that very, very funny. :p

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Oh man, having handwriting like a font would be awesome! My printing is very teacher-ish, I guess. And my cursive--come to think of it, I hardly ever use it, so when I do it's pretty rusty. They are thinking passing a law here in NC saying schools have to teach cursive but, honestly, why? Maybe it's just an ancient thing we don't need any more, sort of like the flowery writing of the early 1900s. Today we can hardly read that.

I bet you could make some decent money doing calligraphy for wedding invitations! :)

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Both my mother and my sister do calligraphy, and my sister has done wedding invitations. I'm sure I could jump on the bandwagon if I put my mind to practicing it, but... yeah. Practice? Nah.

Making cursive a law seems almost laughable, but I do think it's sad if students don't even get the chance/incentive to learn it. It doesn't have to look like a Medieval scroll in order to be beautiful and useful.