Me being European who wasn’t taught to not write in cursive:
why do people bitch about this so much? is it an American thing? it’s just an alternate form of writing and it’s barely different from normal writing. like you only need to remember what k, r, s and z look like.
I’m sorry if you barely cleared what passes as literacy and are bitching about learning anything beyond you might as well be illiterate. what’s next? i learned lowercase letters for no reason, i could’ve been communicating through all caps the whole time.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it is an American thing. As to why, well, you said it: “bitching about learning anything beyond you might as well be illiterate”.
Everyone gets so worked up about cursive writing. So you were taught to make writing more efficient. You were taught to make your writing beautiful. Real tragedy.
I still write in cursive because it’s easier and looks nicer. And if you can’t read it, I am gonna judge you.
“More efficient” script that only the writer can read
It’s absolutely not more beautiful, and it’s a pain in the ass to both read and write. Some of us have ugly writing in general despite years of practice and on top of that I hate writing with a pen or pencil period.
Know what’s even more efficient than that cursed writing style?
A god damn computer. Anything more than a few sentences should by typed out.
Idk, I have been writing in cursive for so long that writing anything else feels weird. Cursive just has a neat flow to it
If your hand writing is shit don’t complain that others have good handwriting and are fast at it.
Also to be able to read historical documents.
I dread the day when people won’t be able to read cursive because, I guess, they hate to learn? I have chronic pain in my wrist and arm and it’s the least painful way to write by far.
I know a few teachers who use cursive when they have students take notes to other teachers. That way the students can’t read them
I write in cursive and I have people ask me to read what I wrote.
I’m trilingual, so I figure I might have accidentally written it in Ukrainian cursive, but it’s English, so I look up like:
“You just have really bad handwriting”
There’s a thing that I sometimes think about. I write in cursive by default and live in Japan.
Me being Latvian, chances are that that I’m the first Latvian person that someone has encountered. The question is: how many people thought that I wrote something in weird Latvian script and not just English in cursive?
It’s most definitely not more beautiful for me, and I much prefer being able to read what I wrote down than being fast at writing it down. I had to actively unlearn cursive when I started university, because my notes were not usable.
I had to go to special cursive classes during recess for three years. Fuck cursive.
Three years?? I only got a week’s worth of homework for an entire school year for cursive. It sucked because I had to finish the whole thing during school break and the teacher never checked it but at least it wasn’t three years’ worth! lol
looks nicer
Calligraphy is a better, more legible, option.
Man… people can barely read my writing when I don’t use cursive. Might as well be scribbles on the page if I use cursive. I learned to write with a half-cast on my writing hand though, so it was a rough go of it in general.
cursive is less legible
And we’ll judge you if you use cursive.
Judge away, but my chalk signs are ✨fabulous✨ and you can’t read them. Neener-neener.
I went further and taught myself a few forms of calligraphy. I played with the fountain pen and then bought lots of ink and stuff. Great way to zone out.
It was funny when we used to be in the office to sign a farewell card and I would do it fancy.
Missed opportunity to write that sign in cursive.
But that would mean he learned it with a reason
Sorry that you had to use 10% of your power to learn cursive, Shaggy
i purchased my first condo in 2010 - this was before digital signing was common. i went to the notary to sign all of the paperwork, and after my first (of a fuckton) of signatures, the notary looked at my signature, crumpled up the paper, printed a new copy, and said “you need to have a signature in cursive”
i told him my signature was how i signed that first paper, and he said he couldnt notarize it, so i need to use my “real” signature.
so that condo had strange signatures on its paperwork that kept changing as i attempted to find a good cursive signature throughout the process.
1/10
And, depending on your municipality, you might be able to refute those signatures if your signature at the bank was your actual signature, and it won’t even matter that they were notarized. I’m not saying you’ll have a reason, but it might be an option if you needed it.
Yeah but my signature would be really boring if I hadn’t learned it. But also fuck you Miss. Merrell you crotchety old bag. 
I’m lucky. My signature is just my initials in one unbroken line, like a little logo, and everyone comments on how professional it looks. Cursive wasn’t involved at all. Just lines overlaid that look like my initials because I am a lazy fucker.
Those low resolution digital signature pads they had at Point of Sale systems briefly between paper signed receipts and cards with chips turned my signature into to vaguely wavy lines and I have now adopted it fully - even on paper.
Those things are what got me to use this signature too actually. My previous one was cursive (granted, sloppily) but it just ended up a weird mess. Started doing this to make it visible.
Im jealous they turned yours cool AF and made mine boring
Oh no, you misunderstand. I had to create that signature FOR the shitty tablets. My previous signature just ended up looking like I was a stroke victim.
Ok - I’m jealous you’re motivated to create great things and I’m lazy AF 😅
It was just a lot of stupid videos about celebrities and their signatures, trust me lmao
Yes, things designed to take signatures with a polling rate of like 10hz. Whoever OKd those to actually be produced should be thrown in a dungeon. POS tablets too.
My signature is either a scrible or the word signature, because anytime i am required to use my signature these days, it doesn’t actually matter whats written.
My signature is my first name in Gregg shorthand, middle initial, then my last initial with a scribble afterwards. The Gregg shorthand bit is neat because it looks kinda like my first initial, but it isn’t in ways I can detect
I like cursive. I use it when I ship people cookies or canned foods. Makes the letters look nice and clean, and I get compliments!
Techically, you don’t even need to write.
People need to stop to label everything they don’t understand as useless. It only hightlights their ignorance.
You need to still write in 2025. You don’t need to use cursive.
People mostly need to read. I don’t know if you realised how much people don’t need more writing than taping a few buttons on a screen or scribbling a note every few weeks.
So many people use vocal notes rather than text messages.In the popular classes people almost don’t need to write the moment they step outside of school.
I don’t mock learning to write for that. Just like I don’t mock learning to write cursive cause I didn’t see concrete application in my current life. I haven’t found the reason to know how to solve a second degree equation either but I don’t call it useless either.
It’s to evaluate and develop your fine motor skill development. Yeah we technically don’t need it as a writing method but it has other uses.
gotta wonder what his signature looks like
You can look down on all these slowass writing fools
