I only write in cursive when I sign something. My personal version of cursive is completely illegible.
Throughout most of school and for a few years after graduation, I used cursive for everything because I had been conditioned to believe it was the 'norm'. At first, I took pains to make sure people could read it, but the teachers insisted that I write faster. (THEN they started complaining that they couldn't read my writing. F**k them, I thought. They were the wise-asses who'd gotten me to write that way in the FIRST place!)
Eventually, I simply realized that block letters are just plain better. (I'm not trying to impress the person I'm writing to, I'm trying to COMMUNICATE.) So now, I write my non-digital communications in nothing but capital block letters. For actual capitals, I use bigger block letters.
What can I say? It works!
Oh, and I'm confident that nothing would be lost if we quit teaching cursive in school. Even if cursive may not be completely obsolete just YET, it's a safe bet at this point that it WILL be history by the time the present generation of third-graders[small]*[/small] have graduated!
[small]*Yeah, most of us start learning the stuff around third grade, right?[/small]
Throughout most of school and for a few years after graduation, I used cursive for everything because I had been conditioned to believe it was the 'norm'. At first, I took pains to make sure people could read it, but the teachers insisted that I write faster. (THEN they started complaining that they couldn't read my writing. F**k them, I thought. They were the wise-asses who'd gotten me to write that way in the FIRST place!)
Eventually, I simply realized that block letters are just plain better. (I'm not trying to impress the person I'm writing to, I'm trying to COMMUNICATE.) So now, I write my non-digital communications in nothing but capital block letters. For actual capitals, I use bigger block letters.
What can I say? It works!
Oh, and I'm confident that nothing would be lost if we quit teaching cursive in school. Even if cursive may not be completely obsolete just YET, it's a safe bet at this point that it WILL be history by the time the present generation of third-graders[small]*[/small] have graduated!
[small]*Yeah, most of us start learning the stuff around third grade, right?[/small]