Cursive Handwriting - Disappearing?

[jyl]

My "scribble" cursive has devolved into a sort of personal shorthand, but I still have a "legible" cursive that I use to write notes to others.

This is kind of in-between - I didn't try hard to make it legible, nor did I try hard to go fast.



Keep posting those writing samples, be they print or cursive! This is interesting.

Oh, do you think women have distinctly different handwriting than men? I had my wife write the same sentence and it looks "girly" to me.

[syncroid]

Here is my chicken scratch when I am at work.

[id10t]

I started typing and using computers for papers and such when I was 10-11 (1981). In 5th grade, we either had to turn in papers in cursive, or typed. I typed. Have a very hard time w/ writing cursive, and unless I really take my time my print is terrible too.

[island911]

as I was saying...

[svandamme]

can't write for ssjt... I work in IT... i doodle with a pen, taking notes, i do that digitally..
maybe over the course of a year, i'll write one paragraph of actual writing cursive.. and it will be hard to read it myself.. even if print i'm bad at it.. i'm sloppy , always have been, always will be , kinda have add or sometin

[stomachmonkey]

I print, all caps all the time. Rarely any punctuation.

Sometimes I come across a old letter from my grandmother in Germany or find some of my fathers old papers.

"Old World" script is elegant and unfortunately a lost art.

[strupgolf]

I always use cursive, always have. It's the way I was brought up. I love to get and give a nice hadwritten letter or note now and then and my girls write nice notes to me in cursive. In 10-20 years I don't know what will be written, probably nothing. Oh well, I'm old school and I don't text either.

[sammyg2]

I was just thinking about this last week. I was in the archives looking up some equipment history from the early 60's.
I noticed that many of the reports back then were hand-written, and were beautiful. Perfect penmanship, easy to read.

Not like my chicken-scratch that I can barely read. For too many it's a lost art.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by syncroid

Here is my chicken scratch when I am at work.

Dude, it's spelled "shield".
Sorry, I was so jealous of your clear writing I had to pick it apart somehow

There's no way I could write all that without 3 or 4 scratch-outs.

[syncroid]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Dude, it's spelled "shield".
Sorry, I was so jealous of your clear writing I had to pick it apart somehow

There's no way I could write all that without 3 or 4 scratch-outs.

I always forget the "i" before "e" thing. I deserved that.
If I really take my time, like writing a letter, I print very clearly. For work, if my boss can read it and I can read it, its good to go.