[jyl]

Do you use cursive or printing, when you handwrite?

How often do you handwrite anything? 1x week? 10x week?

Do your kids use cursive or printing? How often do they handwrite anything? How old are they?

Is there any reason to teach cursive? To learn cursive?

Do you have a nice pen? Do you give a hoot about a nice pen?

In 10 years, do you think cursive will still be used?

In 20 years, do you think handwriting will still be used?

Just curious. I'm reading that the current crop of high school and college kids hardly use, or know, cursive anymore.

Personally, I seldom handwrite anything - maybe 3x week I'll write a grocery list (but increasingly I type it into the iPhone). I have a nice Waterman fountain pen, but use it maybe 3x year. I do write cursive instead of printing. My kids learned/are learning cursive, part of being educated in the French system. None of us have the beautiful cursive script that my parents and even more my grandparents have/had. They learned Western handwriting from an old-school Chinese background, after spending years practicing traditional brush calligraphy. Which is no longer a standard school subject, even in China.

EDIT

Okay, guys. Let's see it. Post a photo of your handwriting - printed or cursive, whatever you do.

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