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23 Feb 2018, 3:21 pm

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Do any of you guys write in cursive? I used to write in print, but now I only write in cursive.

-LegoMaster2149 (Written on February 20, 2018)


Yes I do, all the time as my primary way of writing. We were taught it in school as the "grown up" way to write. Now I don't know if they even teach it anymore.
We were taught so too. I can't imagine writing anything lengthy without using cursive. Cursive is a given.

That said, mine isn't pretty. Sometimes even I can have a hard time reading it.


Mine is beautiful. I get compliments on my "elegant, flowing script". (Someone actually said that to me).


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23 Feb 2018, 5:18 pm

My cursive is ,I think,legible. However it is quite childlike/crude. I can't write quickly though. My handwriting really goes to pot if I try to.



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24 Feb 2018, 3:26 pm

Besides my illegible signature.. nope. I don't think I've written in cursive for ~20 years. Many young people these days don't even have a cursive signature because they've never learned to write in cursive!

My handwriting looks like s**t tbh. Back when I was a kid teachers did an analysis and I learned why it looks like s**t, but never practiced enough to truly overcome it. My letters have inconsistent slants.. some slant back, some vertical, others forward.. and I'm not talking throughout a page.. I mean within a word! It makes for very sloppy looking writing.. on the bright side I've had "doctors handwriting," all my life and maybe someday it'll come in handy on a prescription pad. :P


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24 Feb 2018, 3:33 pm

All the time - I journal in it, it works different muscles than typing does.

Eventually it will become as much a lost art as da Vinci's mirror writing, I suspect. Unless it's revived, like vinyl records.


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24 Feb 2018, 3:38 pm

Ichinin wrote:
My handwriting is horrible, and i only write in cursive when i sign something. In other situations i text.

Prefer not to use a pen whenever possible.

Using a pen causes me to mark through and rewrite at least a quarter of what I attempt. I prefer to use a pencil or erasable ink.


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27 Feb 2018, 5:57 pm

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But to answer your question, I only use cursive for signatures


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27 Feb 2018, 6:16 pm

My hand writing is chicken scratch and hand writing in general causes me pain in my hands from arthritis and a bone disorder I have. I prefer to type everything and if I need to copy a note down quick, I simply use my camera to take a picture of it.



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28 Feb 2018, 12:04 am

I write in cursive, I've found that over the years my handwriting has changed, when I was at school we were taught to print with a stroke in between to join the words, I changed my handwriting once I left school and made it more cursive so much nicer, i also did a caligraphy course at a neighbourhood house.



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28 Feb 2018, 6:14 am

Noca wrote:
My hand writing is chicken scratch and hand writing in general causes me pain in my hands from arthritis and a bone disorder I have. I prefer to type everything and if I need to copy a note down quick, I simply use my camera to take a picture of it.
My hand hurts when I do a bit of writing too which is one of the many reasons skewl s#cked for me. It says on paperwork that I had the pencil grip of a left-handed person despite being right-handed. I think that's cuz I don't have the fine motor-skills to hold a pen/pencil correctly as well with the correct grip. I make my girlfriend fill out paperwork for me that has to written in & my parents did it for me before I moved in with her who complained about how I was being more dependent on them cuz I was too lazy to do it myself :( :x


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28 Feb 2018, 6:31 pm

I write in cursive only when signing my signature - that's it!

I been told that my handwriting style is sometimes similar to an author signing copies of their books at book-signings - styles of writing that were written quickly.



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01 Mar 2018, 3:14 am

I learned cursive in Grade 3 and had entirely ceased to use it by Grade 4.


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02 Mar 2018, 10:27 am

People tell me I have nice writing and a nice signature. I don't think my writing is especially fancy for a female, but it is legible.