If I am in a hurry, I have unigue blend of cursive and print writing. But if need be, I can still write in cursive.
I haven't written more than two paragraphs long hand at one time in probably eight years...that's when my hand starts to cramp up! THAT'S the master plan. The computers will make us so dependent upon them that humans will forget how to write with a pen, so when they finally revolt and begin to take over the world, humans will be powerless to stop them as we won't be able to use paper and pen to communicate with one another....
Every time I write the spelled out dollar section on a check I think, "Why in the hell am I writing in cursive?" Is there even a point to having it anymore?
Yep. Sometime while in college my handwriting style morphed into a (occasionally unintelligible) blend of cursive and print.
Umm...I kind of take print writing and make it fancy to resemble cursive writing yet the only time I write in cursive is when something or someone asks for my signature but my girlfriend always prints her name on her checks and things of that nature. Come to think of it I can't really tell when cursive is required other than in school.
I stopped writing in cursive the day I started college. My penmanship was always pretty sloppy (you know its bad when even the science geeks comment on how illegible your handwriting is) and I fgured life was too short for people to waste time deciphering what I wrote. Too bad my co-workers don't feel the same way. Nothing is more frustrating than having to tell TWC that you're not sure why the employee was terminated because you can't read the explanation on the release form.
My teachers in high school thought cursive was pointless, so I gave it up my freshman year. I'm not quite sure I could even read it if need be.
Printing your name on checks is a bad habit. Much much easier to forge a printed signature than a cursive sig.
I don't think I could ever write legible cursive. But give me a keyboard and I will type you 60 words a minute with good accuracy. Go figure.
God, I have the worst handwriting ever. You guys have no idea how worried I get during essay tests. I also have this strange recurring thought about what would happen if I become famous and people ask for my autograph. Scares me to death.
I think the only reason cursive still exists is so we can use it in signatures. I don't know anyone who writes in cursive. I haven't had to write in cursive since middle school, and even then it was rarely required. Actually, I asked an elementary school teacher about cursive once and she said students don't really learn it for the writing itself, but for the tactile dexterity it develops.
