Further Signs of Our Doomination

Oh my God! We're all going to die! The socialists have won! They're going to be rounding us all up and sending us off to camps where we'll all be turned into Soylent Green! Jesus save us from the foreign born Islamofascist running the country!

More at the link! Those queerboy fascists are spreading their ebil!!!!!

About fucking time. I hate mandatory formalities that we do just because we do.

Other than to sign my name I haven't used cursive since middle school.

I've been known to use curs[-]ive[/-]es on occasion.

Y'know, I went though a pretty reputable art and design program in the mid 90's.
During first year, we were taught how to use a ruling pen despite the odds of us never having to touch one again after graduation.

In second year, we would frequently perform drawing "calisthenics". Drawing long straight lines vertically and horizontally, as well as describing circles from the finger to the shoulder.

Cursive writing, while possibly on the road to obsolescence, is more than just a "formality" of education. I'd go as far as saying it helps train fine motor coordination which in turn will prepare the kid for any number of precision operations...including precise operations if they become surgeons.

You don't think kids will be getting the fine motor skills from playing video games?

Why can't they learn all 3?

Pffft. My motor coordination is just fine.

I write schizo. both cursive and print...more often than not within the same word.

They should learn to type in comic sans.

My Grandmother is dying, and living with my aunt. This week, I have been handwriting letters on my iPad - which I then send to .pdf and email to my aunt to deliver to my grandmother.

That seemed... appropriate to share.

I think kids should learn cursive and I say that as someone whose cursive is so bad that even I can't read it, so I print everything except my signature.

In my research, I'm often looking at copies of old docs from the CW. They're all written in cursive. I'd be screwed if I didn't know how to read it.

It's a basic skill that you should know how to do.

Your folks must be so proud to have a son who's a neurosurgeon!!!

Quite the opposite, actually. there's two "dead" fingers on either hand with the standard console controller,the other two remain flat against the front buttons. No range of motion whatsoever in that.
The only manual dexterity developed in front of an Xbox is when you pause to roll a

Actually, the fun part of college was unlearning a bunch of things I learned in high school, one of which was that everyone was going to expect you to write in cursive. In engineering, at least, that's quite the opposite, because we're expected to print in order to make our writing as legible as possible, which is hard enough as it is in most cases.

I know way too many people whose penmanship is atrocious -- and that's in print. My girlfriend considers her handwriting -- both print and cursive -- to be somewhat lacking, till she saw mine (and hers is beautiful compared to mine). And even then, my writing is legible compared to everyone else's. I make it a point to write in cursive when writing letters.
Seriously, handwriting is a needed skill and it's already been thrown by the wayside. There's something very therapeutic about writing with pen and paper.

In ways, we are one of the best documented generations in history: birth records, death records, various public records, paper trails, etc.

In ways, we are one of the worst documented generations in history. We don't write letters anymore. There's a great deal to be learned about history from old letters.

We write emails and text messages. One good EMP and poof!

Studies have shown that surgeons who play video games have better motor skills than those who don't.

Especially, I would assume, Amateur Surgeon.

What the frak! Look, here's the thing. If you want to write an old school casual letter to someone, esp someone close like your parents, family, or significant other, the proper way to do it is to do it in cursive. This is bullshit. Kids can learn just like we did. First you learn to print, then write cursive, then you learn to type. Fuck, most kids coming into school nowadays already know how to type!!! They'd be wasting curriculum, unless this is how they want to teach vocabulary and spelling now.

But for yourself, you need cursive. Every once in awhile, cursive IS the appropriate format; additionally; it adds a touch of sincerity. Hey Grandma, I'm not writing you a birthday card because it's expected, I'm writing you one because I WANT to write you one. (as such people see your pretty writing)

I don't remember that learning cursive took all that long to be honest. Of course when I was a kid we only had 5 channels...of which only 3 really came in good enough to see. So I guess I had the time to learn the squiggly writing stuff.

I find cursive to be faster when writing but my written word tends to be a mish mash of both.

I always write formal letters/documents in cursive. I love my cursive writing and take great pride in it -- if I think it's proper to do so, I will.

However on documents for work and other non-formal documents, I write in very small block letters. It's a drastic change from my cursive, but both my styles of handwriting are very legible.

I actually catch a lot of flak for having "girlish" handwriting. I don't really consider it girlish, I consider it to be good technique. Some people's handwriting is appalling, I just don't understand how they think it's okay to write in the way they do.

A few months (maybe as long as a year ago) I was reading elsewhere about how since everything in the military is now computerized, there's a concern among historians that a lot of the "nuts and bolts" history of the current conflicts is being lost to future historians because it's "deleted" for security purposes. They cite WWII history where, if you look hard enough in the right places, you can still find the daily reports and such all the way down to the company level. It's the nitty gritty detail kind of stuff that hardcore researchers and historians go for and, apparently, much of it is being lost forever.

My cursive writing is horrible. And that's despite having a blank book just to practice in. I print everything I write by hand.

That said, I think it's a mistake to not teach kids cursive writing.

All our medical/dental records are now in electronic format.

But when I used to have to hand write my clinical notes, I never used cursive. That would have been a horrible mess.

I don't see any harm in teaching kids cursive, as long as they don't spend too much time on it and also focus on computer typing, which is more important. Cursive is kinda useless these days.

Until they find those old love letters their grandparents wrote and can't read them...

You know who doesn't teach their kids cursive handwriting?

Faggots.

Learning to write cursive, like learning how to use a sliderule is useless for 99.99999% of the population here in the States.

Scanner.

It's like they most likely won't be scanning them to back then up anyway.

Do you really want to read a letter from your grandfather to your grandmother where he talks about how he's going to eat her pussy?