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Sep. 22nd, 2012 11:31 am
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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???

Date: 2012-09-22 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] willow-41z.livejournal.com
I can read and write cursive, and I do sometimes! Not frequently, since my cursive is hard to read, but when I need to write quickly.

Date: 2012-09-22 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com
"While the terms cursive or script are popular in the United States for describing this style of writing the Latin script, this term is rarely used elsewhere. Joined-up writing is more popular in the United Kingdom, double writing and cursive is popular with Australian schoolchildren, and linking is more popular in New Zealand. The term handwriting is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand."

Thanks wikipedia. For a moment then I was so confused.

Here everyone writes cursive, had it drummed into me at school.

Date: 2012-09-22 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosaleeluann.livejournal.com
I can read and write in cursive, but I'm not sure about my younger siblings :D

Date: 2012-09-23 09:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hebe0.livejournal.com
I can't always read _my own_ joined up writing....

Date: 2012-09-23 01:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aged-crone.livejournal.com
I've read articles about all the benefits of teaching handwriting, and making children practice; all kinds of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and more. It's very odd that schools don't emphasize it, but of course they're too busy about teaching-to-the-standardized-test.

I have to say that when I saw your post, what I thought was:

CURSIVE!! FOILED AGAIN!!!

Date: 2012-09-23 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peggy-2.livejournal.com
ha!
I can, but the legibility varies wildly depending on various random factors. Sadly, my printing isn't much better. And both are slower than my typing now.

Date: 2012-09-24 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com
Hahaha I've been writing in cursive a lot because when I write to WP it's late and I'm tired and lazy and don't feel like picking up a pen. My normal handwriting is something of a mix of print and cursive.

I feel like a while ago there was a handwriting meme that went around...maybe I'll dig that up. I know that whenever I'm not involved in schoolwork my handwriting goes all to pot and I have to remember how to do it again.

Date: 2012-09-26 08:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] appellations.livejournal.com
i can speak cursive!

Date: 2013-02-11 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] booksrgood4u.livejournal.com
I just happened to click on your journal and saw this...yes, I can read, and love to write cursive! People tell me I have such pretty handwriting, and I'm thinking, it's called cursive, you guys!

Date: 2013-05-05 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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
Edited Date: 2013-05-05 06:10 pm (UTC)

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