oops! lets try again with the text this time.
if you're between the ages of 18-30 and you can read this, let me know, and include your age in the comments. I remembered a while back, while reading something about the modern education system, that they were no longer teaching cursive writing.. So this begs the question, and a real poll. :-) If you're old, I already know you can read this. 😁
hmm: @roya @wolf #[2] tagging yall first, cuz I think you're in the demographic. anyone else can play along as well, of course.
cc: #[3]
hmm.
hmm: #[5] #[6] #[3] tagging yall first, cuz I think you're in the demographic. anyone else can play along as well, of course.
cc: #[4]
okay then, that should work this time. 😂
Yes I can read it. I didn't grow up here. That's how we write. French upbringing.
okay thats 1 of 3. and several older folks have answered, hey #[3] can you read this?
#[5] how about you? :)
Yes. I went to one of the top elementary systems in Maryland, then private prep school for middle & high in Los Angeles. Cursive was a base requirement, though no Latin (and Spanish/French were only taught enough to pass) which was disappointing.
:)
I went to school in Maryland, for Elementary too. not all of it but for preschool, third, and fourth grade.
Howard County. Wouldn't it be funny if you too were in Howard County ? LOL
Do you know where that is ?
Yeah when I was in IL, they were teaching me spanish in 1st grade.. then it wasn't offered in california until high school.........
I was in Montgomery County
I tried reading some books by scientists back in the 1600-1900s and fuck that was a pain. So glad that shit is gone.
its a definite skill, something that's apparently no longer taught.
but in reality it's just way to connect the letter to one another, as you deduced, and i've always really enjoyed writing like this.
but I do have to agree with you, the farther back you go, the more difficult it is to read. the version I learned in school is far simpler in *some* aspects, than it used to be.
also, for example, leonardo used to write BACKwards, and mirrored, so you had to either know how to read that, or hold it up to a mirror and then reverse it, to even figure out what was going on... :D
I've started journaling in cursive and I find it very calming. My hand doesn't cramp up like it used to with printing. I can read what you've written there, but I'm also a few years outside of your defined range.
journaling in cursive is how fountain pens were meant to be used......
its both highly rewarding and very relaxing.
ballpoint pens (ever since gradeschool) have felt like some kind of cruel and unusual torture device, to me, gel pens the same, although those didnt even exist until i was in junior high school, but yeah..
liquid pen and ink all the way.
so not only do i agree with you that its very calming but its just..... you lose track of time and space, and that's really remarkable, beacuse you're fully in tune with your sub conscious thoughts and they tend to just leak out on the page. so glad you've discovered this again, and by all means urge you to keep it up. it really is worth it, imho.
ps, i know you're outside the age range, you talk like someone around my age, but i'd be suprised if you were over 48. I'm 40 , but whatever. my intuition says that you're between 42 and 43, but that's not important unless you wish to share purely for the purposes of this post and of course, voluntarily for fun. :)
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Can you read my chicken scratch? 🫣
EVERY word, good sir . Fret not. PS, for your next pen (25$,) I'd highly recommend the Kaweco Sport, Broad Nib. Comes in various colors, too!
although they may be hard to find in various colors, and there are some stupid derivatives that are very expensive and needlessly so, this will do the trick..
converters are the silly little midget piston style you see here:
*really* -----really------- nice pen. i prefer them to the lamy, because they write like liquid accurate butter, on the page.
more nib flexibility, than the lamy, but not trashing the lamy, either. i've owned a safari or two back in the day, and no matter how much i wish it had worked like this pen, it didn't.
if i had a choice of any pen under 80$ it'd basically be this one.
A broad nib would be nice to have. I have M, F, and EF covered already. I think I recall you posting about the Kaweco Sport before...
I fat-fingeresd the repost button, hehe. No take-backs in Nostr though so enjoy the spread.
GN my friend. 🌃
I write in cursive yes.
More like I have to write in cursive since I have to wrote a lot in less time.
Dr font hahaha
I can read it. I am 40.
I recall writing cursive at school. But no more in contemporary education system.
you are in my generation, and I'm glad you learned too. :D
I'm wondering where the cutoff was, when they stopped teaching it, do you know definitively ?
also, hi ! how are you?
I was educated on an another language with very few exceptions in elementary school. Spelling was not even a skill as it is very normal; you hear it and write it. So cursive writing wasn't a luxury.
But now my 8-year old is going through 2nd grade in US. I can tell you that teachers in English language have a lot burden to deal with before cursive. We stopped questioning why a word is read that way.
Kids are not left with enough buffer especially these days with all these distractions from screen time.
doing good, thank you for asking. Adjusting to #nostr. Very good people and conversations here. How about you?
Writing, calligraphy used to be valued... Everything is square letters over screens now, from school... Sad
i agree that kids have a "lot" to deal with, in our modern world. its a real big mess. they are left wondering SO many things....
etymology is not taught, and its important, as much as knowing why the word is fit in context with other words. its a great aspect of critical thinking, vs making barely passable robots that are literate but not actually literate....
screen time... ugh.. if i had kids of my own, there would be no screen time, and my kids would probably resent it, until they understood why i was doing that.
yes, the people here are pretty cool, and im glad to hear you're also enjoying it. :)
im waking up slowly on the west coast of america, lol. :)
aiming to do more blogging here today:
Trying to zap you. But looks like you didn't set up your ln address. Snort.social says it failed to load your ln url.
Please give it a try to another wallet.
Couple options (those supporting NIP-57):
* ln tips bot (running on telegram)
* stacker news
it doesnt work? hmmm i have the noah wallet in there, donate@noah.me and i also have ringo@coinos.io but its not attached. thank you for alerting me to this... hmm...
i'll check into stacker news, as i dont use telegram or a smart phone...
My kids are ten and eight, and they're learning cursive at school. I also write in cursive, with a fountain pen, but my writing is so bad it's essentially a crime against humanity.
are they in school in the united states, if i may ask?
I found this, while reading about it:
