I never learned how to write cursive. I learned to print my letters before I was in school. When they teaching everyone how to write cursive, they were putting me in the talented and gifted class. The only thing I learned to write in “cursive” was my signature. My signature doesn’t look cursive anymore. My other handwriting looks like a five year old wrote it because it’s printed, but at least it’s legible. I can see how it wouldn’t be taught anymore, since we hardly write anything by hand anymore. It didn’t hurt me and I am 30 years old now.
My college years were from 1975 - 80, and the greater part of my written assignments were done in handwriting, including an eight-quarter-unit senior project. I usually got good grades, but it amazes me now to recall how common that sort of thing was at that time.
I’m not particularly opposed to cursive on principle, but my own handwriting is terrible, despite concerted efforts on my part to improve it.
Post an example. Let’s see who can interpret it!
I hear people say “double-u tee eff” fairly often. Not so much the other netspeak acronyms.
I remeber when I was in 4th grade (about 76 or 77) I moved to a different school.
When I did, I did all of my assignments in print. One day I got a wild hair up my ass and for some reason, decided to do one of my assingments in cursive.
As soon as my teacher saw this, she called my to her desks and says
T: “You can write in cursive?”
Me: “Um, yeah. learned it in the second grade” :dubious:
T: “Oh, well good. From now on you’ll do all of your assingments in cursive.”
Me: :smack:
I have no idea why I like print so much more.
Feed his entrails to dogs and savor the lamentation of the women.
I write in a lovely script. But then again, I am considered an odd bird.
I use cursive all the time. I rarely print a note.
My handwriting technique could use some honing. Can anyone suggest some good books with which to teach myself calligraphy? I know cursive (barely, can’t remember almost any of the fancy capital letters), but I want some really fancy handwriting for when the occasion calls for it.
If I wanted to, it might be nice to be able to write a nice, sophisticated (-looking, lol) letter to people now and again. Or in a card to someone. Or something. 
I had the same type of teacher, was her name Mrs Bryant? Of course this was 1976… 
In Chicago you can get two hours per day but they charge 15¢ per sheet to print.
My understanding is that the importance of cursive started waning long before even word-processors existed. I’m pretty sure my parents, who were born in the early '60s, never used cursive beyond their elementary and maybe middle schooling. It’s pretty archaic stuff that just happened to get passed down in the educational system long after it outlived its practical usefulness. Kinda like how learning Latin was a regular part of everyone’s education hundreds of years after anyone spoke it as a means of everyday communication.
I haven’t written cursive for anything except checks and my signature since high school. I can type way WAAAY faster than either writing in block or cursive. It looks even messier for me since I’m lefthanded and drag my hand over the ink/graphite, making a mess.
I hand wrote on my friend’s Mother’s Day card a couple of sentances.
My handwriting has declined since the computer and was cramping up from the effort. This coming from someone who compulsively handwrote stories in notebooks all-the-farking-time.
My cursive is so bad, I’ve been told I should be a doctor.
About the only thing I write in cursive now is my signature, and that has been pruned down to first initial and last name.
I still have callouses from when my parents forced me to learn the Palmer method of penmanship. These days I use cursive as little as possible and that’s mostly in signing checks or writing the amount. Oddly enough I print the “pay to the order of” line and then write the numerical value in cursive. I guess because it’s harder to alter a line of cursive text than it is to alter block printing. Just a weird habit I picked up somewhere.
Enjoy,
Steven
I really like writing in cursive. When I do have to print, my handwriting is choppy and hard to read, with a downward slant. When I write in cursive, I can stay in a straight line, and I think it looks better.
Anyone? 
Jackpot! Many thanks. 
I’m an academic type who’s prone to epic bouts of procrastination. I type much faster than I write, but it turns out that typing involves sitting at the computer, which has this fascinating thing called the internets on it. In the hopes of actually getting work done, I generally do my writing in cursive. Since it’s only for my own use, it doesn’t really matter if anyone else can read it.
You know, college instructors still give in-class essay tests with blue books. Anyone who’s planning to go through college without pissing off their professors should be able to write legibly, at least on occasion.