Re: can't read or write cursive

HouseMouse · ‎03-04-2016

I have heard this too and wonder how will they sign their names?

If we all had the same opinion or everyone was the same. the world would be a very boring place!

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@cherry wrote:
Latin is still used. It is the language of the Catholic Church. Because it is a dead language, the meanings of the words are not subject to change

I think it is also used in Scientific names of species, and flowers ,and things like that

I believe it is also used in medicine, and perhaps ,also in law

I took four years of Latin when I was in high school. Yes, it is a dead language, but it is a language that most other of the romantic languages were derived from.

i only know English well and some of what I still remember from Latin. Latin has enabled me to read Italian, Spanish, French and and a few other languages have and have a general idea of what the subjust matter is. It has helped me with English too.

Anything you learn in life is part of your education. There is no such a thing of being too educated.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

I remember here in the US there was a time that the metric system was going to be implemented and by a certain date!

I remember thinking, no , I"m not gonna do it lol!

I guess a lot of us must have felt the same way because they cancelled that. I'm still glad. Just one more thing that seemed so hard to learn. There was something right before that that we all had to re-learn and I can't remember what it was!

Not sorry! (sorry have that Reeses Pieces commercial on my mind. Not sure what that sorry has to do with Reeses, but it makes me smile).

I'm left handed and never minded writing, only that still the ink smears sometimes.

I had a harder time with cutting.

They made one of my aunts write with her left hand so she is ambidextrous now. That was the thinking back then.

Her sister, my other aunt was younger and left-handed so they let her be.

I knew about the turning the paper but never did that either.I think cursive can be beautiful and not hard to read.

Most people's signatures are unreadable anyway though, so I don't think not knowing cursive for signatures should be a problem.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

My husband used metrics ,all of his working life, because of it's accuracy. He had to work from blueprints, and be accurate, within 100,000 of an inch, smaller than a human hair

Our system just isn't that accurate

Maggie Nolia · ‎03-09-2010

Imagine that! Imagine being required to print addresses because postal workers cannot read cursive. Sad.

That's when my next career comes in ... as a cursive reader, or cursive interpreter since it will eventually be like a foreign language. Ha!

Learning skills develops the brain. Various skills develop various parts of the brain.

Could it be that an inadequately developed brain contributes to the lack of critical thinking?

LTT1 · ‎03-09-2010

@kittyloo @cherry @on the bay @Carmie @HouseMouse

Here is an example of a type of writing skill that has been lost.

IMO, it is a shame to be lost but it is not useful.

Our society does not have time to use frilly useless words...I guess.

‘When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

It feels sad to have lost the beauty of this type writing.

I do think our students should know and be familiar with the first clause of the second paragraph.

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cherry · ‎03-09-2010

We used to call it manuscript ,rather than cursive. My son was taught how to write like this in, school by his teacher , who was a nun @LTT1

BirkiLady · ‎02-22-2015

@LTT1 Invitations, diplomas, announcements and many other things still use various type faces such as you've just displayed (Declaration of Independence above). Those documents will be around for a very, very long time.

There is a huge difference between type faces and "frilly words". There is a place for both in today's world.

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BirkiLady · ‎02-22-2015

@sidsmom I used a slide rule in Calculus! Probably have a abacus around here, too. Those were great for teaching kids simple math. Plus, they were great art when we traveled in Thailand. I found them beautiful.

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