I don't get it. I can understand not being able to write in cursive and I can definitely understand feeling awkward -or to have "forgotten"- writing in cursive after writing in print for a long time as it's happened to me, but not able to read cursive writing? WTH
What do you mean you can't read cursive?
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Everything about that case just feels wrong. However it comes out, no one will be satisfied.
They are no longer teaching it in school. Its not that hard to read, or even write.. I mean as you mature for many people your writing morphs-- I write in a mix of the two types, and have even developed my own variants on letters (for uppercase G's I use a calligraphy G thats normalised.) I think the only thing I actually use full cursive for is my name!
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I don't understand how she couldn't read the letter. Didn't the prosecution imply she wrote the letter?
Well part of it is how people don't use it that much... it also comes down to how well people write as well. I get faxes from customers with everything in handwriting, it isn't legible so I have to call them and get them to repeat it all on the phone.
Printing vs cursive aside, if you write it then you can read it...yes?
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Aaah, well, most of the time! I have written things (in cursive) that I had to really stretch my memory to make out what I wrote! Must be old age!
When I entered the Air Force in 1991, all of the reports, logs and general correspondence had to be printed. After 9 years in, I printed everything. I got out in 2000, and just recently started writing in cursive again. Now I take pride in my penmanship.
A teacher friend of mine just stated that students are asked to duplicate an essay that is written in cursive for some test. And well, no one can read cursive. It is not being taught across the country because it is not required any longer. Some teachers still do have it part of their studies, but that is by choice.
Is there a story behind this?
It isn't implausible to think that there could be some unreadable cursive writing.
It isn't implausible to think that there could be some unreadable cursive writing.
Sheesh are you a pharmacist? For me writing is a part of a process that allows things to sink into my brain. And yes sometimes . . . well many times I've not been able to read my notes.
Writing in cursive was meant to be faster than printing and better for taking notes. For me it is faster . . . even when I write clearly enough to understand it when I read it. I should have taken courses in short hand. I'm not all that slow at typing but I've seen some of my co-workers make a keyboard sing with the speed they achieve.
The world is changing. I know how to work with a slide rule . . . it is fascinating, and probably learning it helps me solve problems in other areas. Am I going to look down on people who can't use a slide rule and shake my head at their ignorance? No.
She "had help" writing the letter, and probably has as much trouble reading cursive as writing it, which is to say, she can't do either. She's probably borderline functional-illiterate.
What are you talking about? No one is being looked down upon, I was just wondering who the "she" is that people keep referring to.
A witness at the Zimmerman/Martin trial in FL.
Isn't that some kind of guitar Mike?
As an educator for the last 22 years, I will have to disagree with you. Writing is still taught in schools. Both of my children learned it within the last few years. I know for a fact it is taught here in Ohio, and when I was an educator in NC, it was taught there. Being there is no standardized national curriculum, maybe it is not being taught in your neck of the woods. I will agree that today's students are not as proficient in writing as past generations as writing is not emphasized as much as in the past. The digital age is pushing it to the back row....
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Another Casey Anthony type case IMO.
My mom does too, lol. I can't read her cursive writing.
Same here, I used to write all script until I joined the army in 1999 and one had to write in print for forms, counseling statements, HVI lists, etc.
Interesting... I'm, relatively speaking, young (31) but I went to elementary school in the Dominican Republic and at the time we had calligraphy classes. I don't know if there was such a thing here in the states in the 80s; and if they did at one point and not anymore, when did they do away with it?
I remember writing cursive up until maybe my junior year of high school when I started doing a hybrid thing that evolved into full time print.
Well, the statement of "not being able to read cursive" is very broad, I literally cant read my mom's handwriting, she writes cursive full time and if I can make out 20% of what she wrote its a miracle. I've come across people whose print handwriting I can't comprehend either, lol.
...and then there's those doctor notes and prescriptions.
My 7 year old writes in print and they do not teach him and/or most of my nephews anything other than print.
I was involved with a thread about this on another site, and when I researched it I found that cursive is still taught in 75% of schools in the US. There is also a "written, not printed" essay component of the SATs. Some states are eliminating cursive, others aren't, and in much of the rest of the world, children are taught 2 methods of handwriting, formal and informal. Personally, I see a lot of benefit in our children continuing to learn both cursive and printing as part of their basic education.
