When was the last time you handwrote something in cursive?
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2002? ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
My name 2 days ago.
This afternoon.
Every day... Helping my kids at school ๐๐๐ but other than that... At least 10 years ago ๐
When I see you post these notes, my opinion is like you have little/no connection with the past. Apologize for the judgment if untrue, but you appear to make these types of notes from some ultra-modernist perspective.
Not untrue. I like history, but the past seems to be selectively remembered, wildly misunderstood and grossly exaggerated by storytellers.
I'm speaking, more of tradition or invention. Specifically like cursive for example. More recent.
What would you response be if I said: I prefer answering telephone calls from a desktop telephone handset, not a smartphone. I've setup a voip number, run a pbx, and use an ATA adapter because land-lines are so painfully expensive.
Or I used a rolodex at a previous job to get and write phone numbers in? It works great, east and always there. I had to remember to dial the area code because many of the lines (that were still in use) didn't have area codes when written down.
I mean.. you do you, but I don't want to live around these older technologies. It's good nostalgia but they werent any good.
That's my point right? Some technology didn't need to evolve, in comparison, maybe the technology itself was actually good. Sometimes the tradeoffs aren't worth it. Now if I want to handle phone calls, I have to keep a device charged daily and purchase a new one every 2 years or risk it becoming, slow, obsolete, and insecure. My desktop telephone from 2001, stills works as it did when it was new, didn't end up in a landfill, didn't require "exotic" precious metals, doesn't get less usable, doesn't consume any more power (for me) etc. It doesn't track everything I do, everywhere I go. At worse someone tapped my phone call.
They were made to last and good enough for their goal. Most of the new tech just made people weak and alone. It will be probably totally rejected by the new generations. Privacy is gone, slow living is gone, social gathering is gone. The only good side of new technologies is that they are not made to last. My 80's CB radio will work in 2100 but your phone will be gone on 2027.
I wrote a check for my electric bill the end of last month.
Today
I use it for writing secrets since nobody can read it... Even me.
2-3 days ago? Writing by hand helps me think. Generally I print because it is more legible, but I still use cursive for certain types of writing.
Granted this is on an e-ink tablet, but that is just the best of both worlds.
Yesterday or so. Writing print is boring. I can type that.
thank you cards for gifts from my baby sprinkle
So I was a poor child at a rich kids primary school and cursive was the way they wrote, so it's how I learned to write.
I love writing, got a little notebook where I keep flowers or weeds or other sentimental objects and write the memories I have of those items. I feel like memories feel more human when portrayed in the mind over pictures, art, or film
When I thanked your mother for an amazing evening together
Yesterday, taking notes. Though Iโve found that over the years I only write full cursive if Iโm being deliberate. My natural flow is a pidgin of architectural lettering and a cursive copperplate. How about yourself?
Similar, but I think I have not used cursive since 2005 or so, when I used to take notes at the university.
Today actually. I keep a Bullet Journal; best decision I ever made in terms of prioritisation, intentionality, etc. I also keep alternating between cursive and block letters, sorta willy-nilly. Today was a cursive day (this entry is from a few days ago, mostly in block letters).
Not teaching cursive creates another memory-hole mechanism.
I don't remember anything I wrote in cursive.
Prolly a month ago. I decided my father legacy journal has to be in cursive, like I learned as a kid
๐ Last week. Teaching the kid cursive handwriting, if only to be able to sign his name. I like hand writing lists, most times it's a mashup of print and cursive...grocery lists are a big one because I hate having to keep opening my phone to check it ๐ก๐ก.
Blah, blah, blah studies about handwriting and brain function, know a friend with a kid that was having issues with focusing on reading his school work and one of his therapies was to practice cursive writing because you have to pay attention to connecting the letters to make the words. He was able to train his brain to recall and focus on what he was reading.
every day
If you asked me 2 days ago my answer would be "do not recall." But my youngest is learning to write cursive now and asked me if i can still do it yesterday and even though i didn't expect it, but the muscle memory still exists.
Yesterday
Itโs been a minute. Need to do more analog writing โ๏ธ
Aside from my signature, not recently at all. I did try to write some things in cursive about a year ago and while I could do it, it took a lot more concentration than printing letters. I have thought that I should get back into it again.
Yesterday. I always sucked at handrwiting,. One of the reasons what that I was really slow, and the constant pen rising bothered me a lot. When I learned cursive I never switched back because letters just flow faster.
However my handwriting is still awful so I avoid it if I need someone else to be able to read it
2 years ago
Yesterday
June 3rd, 2002 @ 7:34 pm cst
Since high school, but I have been handwriting my study notes the last month or so. Definitely not in fucking cursive though. ๐
Honestly, outside of signing my name, it's probably been a decade - and never for anything outside of school. I can still read cursive (albeit slowly), but I don't even remember all the letters off the top of my head and probably couldn't write a paragraph in it without consulting a letter guide.
Today