I write and read strictly only in print, considering due to a disablity i'm unable to learn cursive

Hasnt really effected my life much except its now a regal pain to write checks (ive had naturally awful hand writing which is why i prefer using a keyboard)

and i STILL get made fun of it because of it (i take it in silent stride knowing they will live a hollow half-life)

Printing. On the third grade they told us that we would use cursive for the rest of our lives... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yAfajTt9x8

I learned cursive as a kid, but I forgot how to write that way. It looks ugly IMO. Although....my own handwriting is repulsive...http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww283/xuerebx/economics.jpg. It's an old essay from first year sixth form economics. Four years later it's just as ugly.

Besides most people's cursive being even more unreadable than their print, I forgot how to do cursive awhile ago. Though mine, like my print, is pretty easy to read.

Not really, because it has practical uses in note taking and writing quickly.



Yes, strange. When I was at school it was forced into you from an early age, you were not permitted to write in any other form. It's odd to see how it's usage has collapsed, though it seems more prevalent in the UK than in America.

In High school I took 2 years of Drafting as a "easy" class, and it basically destroyed my cursive writing. Now every time I write it looks like this:


HELLO, HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY?

All caps all the same height. I still do signature in cursive but I haven't used it in so long I don't know if I can still write in it.

We all learned cursive in primary school, and we were expected to use it for just about everything. Not long after I left I simply stopped using it. I'm not sure what the reason was, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't any. I suppose I could retrain myself to write cursive again, but what would be the point?

Strange thing, I've always been complemented on the neatness of my handwriting. It's obviously legible, but I would hardly have called it neat. I never understood what they saw in it, and that fact has always bothered me.

I simply had thought it might go obsolete because of the availability of cheap hand held digital recorders and the like. I was corrected earlier by some one who claimed that Greggs Shorthand was still being taught as recent as eight years ago to his knowledge, and likely still is.
It was the business standard for decades.