CURSIVE WRITING

[snowman]

I also remember the big, long placard above the board -went from one end to the other, as I recall. I also seem to recall not paying much attention to it.

I think I could have gotten along OK using cursive all my life, even though it would have been slow. Printed letters always seemed easier, and therefore faster to write -so that is what I've been using for a long time.

Regards,
Andy

 

[prairieviper]

I remember it well, and once had a decent hand, but alas, years of using block hand writing and computer use has destroyed it. Today, I am back to practicing writing in curser form to try and recapture the hand memory skills.

I also remember that board display. Unlike you, I never had, what I call good, cursive handwriting. I spent years on the job printing everything and that is what I still use.

 

[SMSgt]

Cursive writing and analog clocks have no more use in today's world than using a linotype press for your office copier.

 

[Ingramite]

Cursive writing and analog clocks have no more use in today's world than using a linotype press for your office copier.

As I worked my way through school one of my gigs was a maintenance man in a high rise office building.

I'd take the elevator (complete with an operator) up to the 23rd. floor. The door would glide open to the steno pool of a large insurance company. You could just smell the estrogen in the air. About 50 beautiful women sitting at electric typewriters. It sounded like machine gun fire.

In my first real job I was assigned a Confidential Secretary. She handled all correspondence for 5 or 6 other guys. I took typing in my senior year and it's a good thing because at the end of my career I was doing my own "work". One old hand told me that those computers had one lever......"lever alone". I made the numerous cuts, he didn't survive the first one.

One day you wake up and notice all of the things that have faded into the past. Things that are no longer with us. Cursive writing and analog clocks are just.....well, never mind.

 

[Golddollar]

This has been very illuminating. That cursive alphabet placard from Walmart looks interesting. I'll have to mention that at the next surveyors meeting that I go to.

 

[snowman]

Cursive writing and analog clocks have no more use in today's world than using a linotype press for your office copier.

Sir,

I guess that your world differs somewhat from mine. I regularly have to sign official documents of one kind or another, from one authority or another. I still have never seen one that accepted printed letters as a signature. A number require both a printed name and a signature. Granted, that's generally the only time I use cursive lettering, but it nevertheless still constitutes a "use".

I use analog clocks most of the time, since my aging eyesight is no longer clear enough to make out the digits on an average size clock beyond 8-10' or so, which often is the shortest distance in my house between the clock and what I'm working on; and what I'm working on often requires the removal of my watch to keep from damaging it(auto maintenance and repair, and other garage work), generally. I use digital clocks when they are close and handy, of course.

Hope this provides a bit of perspective.

Regards,
Andy

 

[steelslaver]

I asked my wife and in this state at least your signature can be in what ever form you chose, in fact it doesn't even need any legible 'letters" cursive or printed. I have placed my scrawl on quite a few legal documents, You may be able to figure out the J it starts with and guess as couple others.

 

[Brian Parrish]

We closed our Christian school about four years ago or so, but we were still teaching and requiring cursive handwriting up to the end. I think many schools in the AACS still do as well, and it was still part of the BJU Press Curriculum last I looked. The idea is that cursive handwriting is a brain train issue, NOT a communication technology issue. I really don't have a replacement for it. You could try calligraphy, but that writing process is too slow and the elementary kids cannot do it, unless you use it the way the Japanese and Chinese use brush calligraphy in their schools. They still do that?

 

[SMSgt]

Sir,

I guess that your world differs somewhat from mine. I regularly have to sign official documents of one kind or another, from one authority or another. I still have never seen one that accepted printed letters as a signature. A number require both a printed name and a signature. Granted, that's generally the only time I use cursive lettering, but it nevertheless still constitutes a "use".

I use analog clocks most of the time, since my aging eyesight is no longer clear enough to make out the digits on an average size clock beyond 8-10' or so, which often is the shortest distance in my house between the clock and what I'm working on; and what I'm working on often requires the removal of my watch to keep from damaging it(auto maintenance and repair, and other garage work), generally. I use digital clocks when they are close and handy, of course.

Hope this provides a bit of perspective.

Regards,
Andy

One's signature is whatever one uses to signs one's name, be it cursive, block, or a simple "X". A simple X would be far more readable than the smeared scribble that is my cursive signature.

 

[SMSgt]

I asked my wife and in this state at least your signature can be in what ever form you chose, in fact it doesn't even need any legible 'letters" cursive or printed. I have placed my scrawl on quite a few legal documents, You may be able to figure out the J it starts with and guess as couple others.

At one time my cursive signature was pretty decent. The I had to "sign" multiple times the logbook of each student after each class. after each class I scribbled faster and faster until now it's jsut a mess with no two appearing the same.

 

[steelslaver]

The Black's Law Dictionary (4th Edition) states in its entry for signature that "whatever mark, symbol, or device one may choose to employ as representative of himself is sufficient". It directs to the entry for sign, which likewise speaks in terms of "any mark, as upon a document, in token of knowledge, approval, acceptance or obligation". Accordingly, your signature qualifies as mark or symbol that fits these purposes.

Your history of signing other legally binding documents that way further reinforces the authenticity of your signature.

In other words there is ZERO need for a cursive signature. Just make your make however YOU chose

I suppose they can make you print your name under your mark what ever it is

 

[LVSteve]

I asked my wife and in this state at least your signature can be in what ever form you chose, in fact it doesn't even need any legible 'letters" cursive or printed. I have placed my scrawl on quite a few legal documents, You may be able to figure out the J it starts with and guess as couple others.

I was told I had to sign my full name on my naturalization certificate, so it's not my signature.

 

[Onomea]

I like analog clocks. All my watches, and all the clocks in my house, are analog, except built-in clocks in kitchen appliance timers.

And I have analog clock apps for my iPad and iPhone.

And I think it interesting that digital speedometers in cars lasted only a couple of years, if that, back in the 1970s, if memory serves.

 

[steelslaver]

I was told I had to sign my full name on my naturalization certificate, so it's not my signature.

The feds can make you jump though what ever hoops they want, when you want something from them. But, signing your name legibly isn't necessarily your "signature". The just wanted your full name.

Any of these represent my signature and the one in the middle works at the bank and the county courthouse and on 4473s

 

[boykinlp]

Last year some time while at a family gathering, the subject of cursive writing came up. We had family members in the discussion from 7 to 88 years old. It was quite interesting. Of course the younger members knew nothing of cursive writing, and when shown what it looked like, couldn’t read much of it. It got me to thinking, and I used to have nice penmanship. But, in this day and time, I rarely write anything anymore except my signature. I decided from that point forward, that whenever I wrote something, it would be in cursive. Mainly it consists of greeting cards for some occasion or other. I found it pretty easy to remember except the letter “Z”, both uppercase and lowercase. I enjoy writing it, but it is definitely much slower for me. I haven’t had anyone tell me that they couldn’t read it or that they didn’t like it, but that may be a respect thing. I even looked online to see if there was a cursive font that I could use on places like this. I did find some but never decided to try them. Maybe, us older folks, should change to cursive fonts. It would be our own secret code!

I always felt sorry for my brother who was left handed. He had excellent penmanship, but because he was left handed, many of his papers would have smeared places on them where he drug his hand through the wet ink after writing, especially in his calligraphy class.
Larry

 

[steelslaver]

Calligraphy is an art form. My JR HS shop teacher practiced it using special pens and every year he gave each of his students a small piece of poster board with their name on it. The letters going wide then narrow as they swooped and swirled to forming your name were wonderful.

Made my signature look like it was chiseled out of stone by a gorilla

 

[Auburn4]

The Constitution of the United States, and The Declaration of Independence are written in cursive. A top dollar watch is NOT DIGITAL. Let us not forget where we came from.

 

[Ingramite]

I'm pretty sure the cursive position could get some traction if we were to frame it as environmentally friendly and gender neutral.......then there is the sundial

 

[Rustyt1953]

When's the last time anyone here read a book, an article, an owner's manual,
a menu, a blog, a text, subtitles, a ballot, a billboard, a mattress tag, a warning label or a cereal box written in longhand?

 

[Mule Packer]

The Black's Law Dictionary (4th Edition) states in its entry for signature that "whatever mark, symbol, or device one may choose to employ as representative of himself is sufficient".

Hmmm. So that explains the "artist formerly known as 'Prince'."

And of course.....