There have been cases of election petitions being invalidated for printed names.
The one that got me – I forget where it was – was one that invalidated signatures for being printed and also for being illegible. A lot of people’s cursive signatures aren’t legible, so they print to make them legible –
I have the impression – though mostly from what I’ve read online – that a lot of children these days aren’t taught cursive, and can neither write nor read it. There seems to be an entire educational debate going on about whether this is or isn’t a good idea.
My grade school had just stopped teaching cursive a year or two before I reached the grade where that would have been taught, and this was mid/late 1970s. I taught myself, disliking the weird hybrid with some letters joined and others not that was taught.
After trying to decipher what doctors had written on prescriptions and electricians on circuit breaker legends, I don’t get misty over the demise of cursive
It seems to me that the two concepts are very different. Rating the quality of something is a score, analogous to a test score, where say you might assign something a score of so many stars out of 5, or a number out of 10. If there are 10 questions on a test and you get 9 of them right, and someone else only gets 3 right, who has the better score?
DEFCON is, as you say, more like a countdown, and can be analogized with priority levels, where Priority 1 is your first and most urgent priority.
Being taught cursive might have been a given at some point- but that’s not nearly the same as being able to use it. Plenty of people were taught cursive and only use print because even they can’t read their own cursive, forget anyone else reading it. There’s a reason forms often direct you to type or print.There’s really no reason to learn to write it nowadays, just like there was no reason for me to be taught Spencerian or copperplate script. Maybe it will be helpful for your grandson to be able to read cursive - maybe. But he’ll never need to write it.
I practically stopped writing in cursive about 30 years ago when I graduated high school, (didn’t go to college), for about 15, 20 years after that I wrote a lot in print (mainly D&D campaigns). and then google docs and affordable laptops eliminated all need for me to write on paper.
Unless, maybe, he needs to sign a political petition or ballot in some area where the judges of such things are picky.
I suppose that’ll eventually stop being one of the things they’re allowed to be picky about – though maybe not, as it sure is a useful way to invalidate candidates getting on the ballot, or in some circumstances even the ballots themselves.
I learned to print really small, like architects do. I love to do it for funzies. But it’s not really a need in my life. Except crossword puzzles.
I am lefty altho’, ambidextrous, kinda naturally. I had a art instructor who made use our non-dominant hand for certain projects. I added, on my own, practice in writing cursive with my right hand.
Got pretty good, if I say so myself.
It is kinda like learning calligraphy, just a series of pen strokes.
I don’t care one way or the other; it was just surprising to me that it isn’t taught any longer. It seems limiting not to at least be able to read it. My handwriting has always been poor. My 4th grade teacher despaired over my penmanship. But my fingers were always quite long for my age, which made it difficult to hold a pencil in the proper way, so I prefer to print.
The one where his grade school crush Susan comes back into his life.
Run by Wes Anderson?
Now this is a legitimate “everyone would know”.
When you say “we go on three”, is that 1,2, go, or 1,2,3, go?
I crack up every time in Top Gun when Maverick says “We break on three. THREE!” I’m sorry, were we supposed to be doing a countdown? I broke on THREE! And for the future was that supposed to be 3,2, break, or 3,2,1,break? KTHX.
Cursive is not taught any more in most schools. There’s no need for it. Kids today use keyboards and phones, rather than write in longhand.
I rarely write cursive any more, and I grew up using it. I can still do it, as it was drilled into me when I was a kid, but it’s no longer natural to me. My handwriting has gotten terrible because I’ve fallen out of practice. I still sign my name in cursive, but I don’t have to do that in pen very often. I sometimes have to sign my name on a touch screen when I use a credit card, but the result looks nothing like my actual signature, and no one cares.
I’ve tried journalling off and on over the years, but it never manages to stick for long. The last several restarts have been journaled on a computer, not with some silly pen or paper.
If I had one it would be on Google Docs, no way I’m going to write that much on dead tree, too much effort and I would be unable to understand my own writings a week later.
I prefer to do such things via word processor. I type faster than I handwrite, and I can read it later (my handwriting, whether I print or use cursive, can be iffy that way).
Since 2009, this board has been my journal…More seriously, no, never kept a journal, and the only handwriting I still do now and then are short notes while I’m on the phone, noting addresses or numbers and such. And I’ve been printing since I graduated college more than 30 years ago, I just couldn’t read my own handwriting anymore. Now I’ve lost the muscle memory for cursive.
I journal on paper so when I’m dead my kids can read my sage and wise words. Without the need to try to get in my devices. I have no doubt they could tho’ a book, ever how configured, is much more personal.
