Can you read/write in cursive?

[Red Squirrel]

You just need to be a coder to be a doctor.

It worked for Bill Gates.

 

[brianmanahan]

i can still read cursive just fine

writing is slight illegible but still passable

but i never use it for anything except signatures at this point

 

[nakedfrog]

You just need to be a coder to be a doctor.

It worked for Bill Gates.

I don't get it.

 

[sdifox]

Da fuq does that have to do with being a doctor? Being a doctor is more about the benjamins than anything else.

Kind of need to keep the paying patients alive for that.

 

[BoomerD]

Kind of need to keep the paying patients alive for that.

nah, medicine is a "no guaranteed outcome" kind of thing...they get paid no matter what. They DO need patients to survive if they want repeat customers though.

 

[highland145]

nah, medicine is a "no guaranteed outcome" kind of thing...they get paid no matter what. They DO need patients to survive if they want repeat customers though.

Nah, there's a ton of geriatrics.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Technically I guess I could probably still read and write cursive, but, since nobody could ever read anything i ever wrote, including myself or my 4th grade teacher. I am going to say that I never really learned it. To be fair, I am left handed, and fractured my wrist in 4th grade and had to try to learn to write cursive with the wrong farking hand. Thats probably why i hate cursive with every fiber of my being. I am glad that many schools are not mandating that torture any more. Forcing cursive on students is a cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[akugami]

I was never great at cursive, but it was somewhat legible. That has degraded to the point I don't even try and only use normal print when I have to take notes by hand. But I can still read cursive.

 

[Pohemi]

...but i never use it for anything except signatures at this point

It didn't cross my mind earlier, but...if kids aren't taught cursive any longer...will they just print their name where/when they need a signature? o.0

 

[akugami]

It didn't cross my mind earlier, but...if kids aren't taught cursive any longer...will they just print their name where/when they need a signature? o.0

Retinal or fingerprint scans my friend.

 

[brianmanahan]

It didn't cross my mind earlier, but...if kids aren't taught cursive any longer...will they just print their name where/when they need a signature? o.0

emojis

 

[Geekbabe]

My handwriting is so bad I should have finished medical school 😂

 

[IronWing]

It didn't cross my mind earlier, but...if kids aren't taught cursive any longer...will they just print their name where/when they need a signature? o.0

One reason I started the thread is that my wife encountered a twenty something who was practicing her signature because her new job required her to write checks. The woman had a friend write out her name in cursive so she could learn to copy it. The woman had almost no experience at all in signing her own name.

As for me, I learned several years ago to be just as sloppy about signing the back of my credit cards as I was most of the time. I would get the hairy eyeball from cashiers when my signature din't match the neat writing on the card. Of course, with chip cards, no one cares anymore.

 

[sdifox]

My new child can't read/write it. She's 21.



No pic.

New child of 21? Mail order?

 

[Torn Mind]

nah, medicine is a "no guaranteed outcome" kind of thing...they get paid no matter what. They DO need patients to survive if they want repeat customers though.

Yes. Plenty of diabetics in the pipeline. Which also means plenty of heart attacks, strokes, insulin shots, eye damage, cancers etc, etc. Planned obsolescence on humans via shitty diet. Glycation is such a money maker.

 

[highland145]

New child of 21? Mail order?

Not sure why anyone would willingly take on that responsibility.

 

[Muse]

Yes, I can write in cursive, wouldn't call it "beautiful", but I think it passes as legible. Not a particularly useful 21st century skill.

It's something of a lost art, but I've seen it said that taking the time to write a letter in "longhand," which can be cursive, I figure, can be very beneficial. I don't do it much.

I haven't practiced my cursive much in recent times but have always figured I could resurrect it. I often print with a pen. I do make notes to myself a lot and to me it's legible. I usually print my notes, those to myself and others.

Cursive can be quite beautiful. My uncle wrote an autobiography that I have next to me and it's amazing how beautiful his cursive was (my copy was made from a scan, however). I believe that Prince had a wonderful cursive writing style.

Prince’s handwriting was beautiful, with a fluidity that suggested it poured out of him almost involuntarily. It also verged on illegible. Even in longhand, he wrote in his signature style, an idiosyncratic precursor of textspeak that he’d perfected back in the eighties: “Eye” for “I,” “U” for “you,” “R” for “are.” The pages were warm, funny, well observed, eloquent, and surprisingly focussed. This was Prince the raconteur, in a storytelling mode reminiscent of his more narrative songs, such as “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” or “Raspberry Beret.”

The Book of Prince

The pop star had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Muse]

My handwriting is so bad I should have finished medical school 😂

In my experience most doctor's handwriting is largely illegible. I don't know how the pharmacists deal with their Rx's.

 

[sdifox]

Not sure why anyone would willingly take on that responsibility.

Well, you are not exactly a shining beacon of reason.

 

[pauldun170]

My teenagers were taught cursive in school and some of their classmates have beautiful hand writing.

 

[Geekbabe]

In my experience most doctor's handwriting is largely illegible. I don't know how the pharmacists deal with their Rx's.

They call the Doctor’s office to confirm. Plus these days many places are going with e-scripts, the nurse/NP writes the script, the doc scrawls his name & it gets faxed to the pharmacy

 

[nakedfrog]

It's something of a lost art, but I've seen it said that taking the time to write a letter in "longhand," which can be cursive, I figure, can be very beneficial. I don't do it much.

I haven't practiced my cursive much in recent times but have always figured I could resurrect it. I often print with a pen. I do make notes to myself a lot and to me it's legible. I usually print my notes, those to myself and others.

Cursive can be quite beautiful. My uncle wrote an autobiography that I have next to me and it's amazing how beautiful his cursive was (my copy was made from a scan, however). I believe that Prince had a wonderful cursive writing style.

The Book of Prince

The pop star had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

www.newyorker.com

Oh, I was strictly speaking about my cursive, as the only two poll options for people who can write cursive are "beautiful" and "nearly illegible"
When I changed my name and thus needed a new signature, I found that there was no struggle to remember how to write in cursive. But I ultimately opted for convenience, and my new signature is just as much of a stylized scribble as the old.

 

[Captante]

Yes I learned to read/write in cursive and it was an utter waste of many hours of my life.

At one point I had halfway decent hand-writing skills but these days saying "chicken-scratch" would be kind!

Cursive handwriting has zero practical reasons to exist in a world with typewriters and printers.

 

[Captante]

It didn't cross my mind earlier, but...if kids aren't taught cursive any longer...will they just print their name where/when they need a signature? o.0

My "signature" is usually either an "X" or if I'm feeling motivated I might make a 2 inch wavy line or possibly print my name as: "Micky M. Mouse". (thus making a mockery... they get accepted EVERY time!)

Cursive writing is stupid except as decoration/embellishment and "written-signatures" as proof of anything legal or financial are obsolete.

 

[digiram]

Back in my college days. I used to write notes half asleep. I would look at my notes at home later and say. WTF!!!