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something that makes me very sad about our comrades in the U.S (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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i was thinking about making a post about the importance of learning cursive handwriting (historical documents, neurological benefits) etc. but then i remembered how i learned cursive by my teachers guiding my hand. i realized that this is basically off limits in the U.S and this would be seen as very scandalous for a teacher to do but in most of the world its such a normal, innocent act for kids to learn how to write. a low touch culture literally kills a people so insidiously.

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[–] bookwhyrm@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

ah good, then we're talking about the same thing after all.

in the country i grew up in, writing "in print" wasn't really a thing (at least during my education, idk about now), and to be honest, it just kind of seems self-defeating to me, since the reason why cursive was invented in the first place was to facilitate quicker and more efficient writing on paper.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago

forms and official documents prefer/require print because it's clearer

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

It was actually developed for ease of use when writing with a fountain pen. With a pencil or a ballpoint pen, I think printing is just as fast. I actually challenged one of my cursive using friends to a race once, and I won.

That being said, I'm old enough to have been taught how to handwrite (as opposed to print-style characters), but I wasn't taught cursive. I was taught an alternative that was faster and more legible. I still abandoned it 5 years later when I was approaching high school. Legibility of my writing was more important than speed. And I quickly discovered that printing wasn't actually slower. All I handwrite these days is my signature, and it's honestly just an aesthetically pleasing scrawl.