Poll: Do You Write In Cursive?

[SacremPyrobolum]

I do. I find that it is quicker, and while it is mostly illegible by people other than myself it is great for leaving a signature, which is the only thing that I actually write without a computer these days anyway.

UPDATE: To make this thread a little more interesting, what are your opinions about it being taught in class? I like writing in curisive, but I cannot say I have found much use for it. I only think it is faster for me because I am used to it.

 

[Qwurty2.0]

I only write in cursive when writing my signature. In elementary school our teacher taught us and said how adults used it all the time.

Then I got to middle school / high school / college and they said "Stop it.".

I don't see cursive used unless it's a business document, as it just makes reading more of a pain than printing your words normally.

 

[Keoul]

Signature only.
Learnt it in primary school but later on it was just a pain, made things harder to read and didn't make things that much faster. I still use it a little bit though out of habit. I just use it for specific letter combinations that lead into each other easily.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Hahaha fuck no.

Hell, I don't think I've hand written anything in months. I don't even write my signature in cursive. My name is pretty long so it's too much of a pain in the ass to write it out when I'm signing things, so I mostly just make a quick scribble and move on.

I think writing in cursive is the most useless skill I ever learned in school, and that includes finger-painting in kindergarten.

 

[Irick]

To be frank. I rarely write anymore.
Typing seems to be the prefered format for most communication these days. I want to pick up calligraphy because I still feel that we should preserve beautiful handwriting, but at the same time mine kinda sucks so...
Yes...

Short answer is no.

 

[Vault101]

heh funny question actually...

because I just started learning, or I leant how to write in cursive and have been for a little while now, reason ebing:

1. my hand writing looks terrible, always has. It was like a basterdised version of every style taught, also it seems I learned the the letters without making the "joins (never quite mastered that part) cursive has helped but I still need more restraint/care

2. efficiency and flow, I write a lot out physically (in journals and such) and its less of a strain with cursive, its also quicker, and even though I haven't been doing it for long I feel myself wanting to "join" letters if I try and print

should it still be taught? that's a hard question, I think there's still value in it but I can't imagine forcing kids to do it as an all round mandatory thing, perhaps being legible should be more important because in the future you may only ever need to hand write if some terrible shits gone down 0_0

 

[Twintix]

Only my signature. It's something that's been ingraved in my mind since I learned it.

But man, learning cursive was so boring. Our teacher was this stuffy, grumpy, boring old lady who was also my homeroom teacher from grade 1 to grade 3. I guess some kids would find it fun to learn, but I don't think learning cursive is a neccessity.

 

[teqrevisited]

My cursive makes it appear that a small family of spiders that has given up and died on the page. I did used to write in cursive all the time but when it came to having coursework marked they wouldn't have a clue what I'd written half of the time. Mine is the tall, thin type where letters all end up far closer to each other than they'd probably prefer.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Usually signature only, my handwriting isn't great as it is.

 

[Zhukov]

I was just leaving primary school when they stopped teaching it.

So I can write cursive, but only if I don't mind nobody else being able to read it.

I use it to scribble notes and such. For everything that has to be legible by someone else, I use regular handwriting.

 

[Basement Cat]

Two years ago I set myself to relearn cursive. It was an odd experience and I had to look up how to form certain letters.

I'm disappointed that cursive writing is no longer being taught in many (perhaps most) U.S. schools now. For one thing many people who grow up not writing cursive are often unable to read cursive writing, it turns out. This would make it difficult or even impossible for people to read many classic original writings.

I stopped writing in cursive around junior high so I write in print far faster than I do in cursive. The reason I returned to writing in cursive was a self improvement step. I also did it because clear, legible writing is favored by readers. I'm vain like that.

It is a noted fact that people who write more clearly--whether printing or in cursive--receive better grades in school than those without good writing ability.

That's right, folks. Do you want to improve your grades in school? Then improve your penmanship. Your teachers will love you for it and reward you with better grades! ^_^

 

[Neverhoodian]

Yes I do. Quite often, in fact. I went to a private elementary school where writing in cursive was practically expected of you after the second grade. It came in handy later at public schools, when many of my classmates that never learned cursive weren't able to copy off of me.

Having said that, I do switch to printing when neatness is imperative. My handwriting is atrocious (my dad once joked that I should have been a doctor), so it's better to err on the side of caution for such things.

 

[Mezahmay]

In regular print, no. In signature, yes. I'm utterly indifferent about it being taught. Actually from what I hear these days almost all the states dropped mandatory cursive lessons since typing on a computer is the dominant form of written expression these days.

 

[Mahorfeus]

Yeaaaah no. Hell, even my signature looks more like chicken scratch. Looks more like a zigzag than anything.

Most useless education I had in elementary school.

 

[joshuaayt]

I have vague memories of being taught to make our letters connect in weird, unsightly ways- our teachers didn't keep that up for long, though.

Most people think my signature is written in cursive, but it's actually just a scribble.

 

[trollnystan]

Do you mean proper cursive or do you mean the joined-up mess my writing becomes when I write more than a paragraph? I barely remember proper cursive to be honest. My signature is basically just a line and my surname initial. Despite my best intentions to write print my handwriting just flows into a mess that only I can read, lol.

 

[Raggedstar]

Nope, only signature. My writing isn't very neat, and it doesn't get much better with cursive. My loops and spacing tend to look weird, so it's less legible than my own normal chicken-scratch writing.

Hah, I remember in school my teacher said some things about cursive. I can't remember which grade it was (Grade 4? Give or take a few years), but she was very heavy in teaching it to us. She said that everyone would expect us to write in cursive (as it was "cleanest", "correct" and "professional") and all our paperwork in the future would require it, so therefore we would need to be perfect and would be losing grades if we didn't use it for our papers with her. Currently a college graduate, and regardless of school (or even grade at the same school) we NEVER used cursive as our main method of writing. In fact, there were more cases where printing was REQUIRED. So...ya...someone was full of shit.

 

[Vausch]

Signature only, so in general no.

 

[Barbas]

Only on big ol' sexy signs or when I'm trying to deliberately look like a spanner in a job interview I don't care for, but otherwise I use my own super-special system that only I hold the power to understand.

Spoiler: Yeah baby.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

Nope. Never use it, not even for signatures. I can't even read it; it's indistinct and all just sort of blends together in my head. Of course, I prefer text on a screen to both printing and cursive, but that's not an option.

As for having it taught in school, I really don't care, but kids shouldn't be forced to use it, nor should they be taught that they're going to need to use it later on in life. It all comes down to personal preference, apart from when you're dealing with someone like me who can't read cursive because he never saw the point of it.