zog741 wrote:
As a lefty, my cursive writing over the years varied from fair to absolutely atrocious. I stopped writing cursively around my senior year of college when I looked at handwritten class notes that I had taken just the previous week and realized that I had absolutely no clue what I had written! Since then, I used block writing, which is slower than cursive, but considerably more legible. It has occurred to me that it's strange that I was taking exams as a graduate student and writing basically the same way that I did in first grade, but as long as my results were successful, who really cares?
The only time I ever write cursively is when using my signature. In this day and age, that really is the only time cursive writing is even necessary.
(Okay, I haven't written a love letter in a very long time. Would my future girlfriend be more swayed by something in block letters or by something completely illegible? Especially something that I won't even be able to read later?
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Happy New Year, everyone.
Thank you Cloudy for finally giving me something to write about.
-- RWM
Ah, you're a southpaw, my yougest daughter is a lefty too. I wish I was left handed also, to give me an excuse for my terrible right handed writing. I actually taught myself cursive writing, because when I moved to Rome, NY, from Geneva, NY, I discovered that Rome taught cursive writing in the 3rd grade, and Geneva didn't until the 4th grade. So I went into Miss Hawk's 4th grade at Fort Stanwix School, trying to catch myself up on cursive writing that all of my classmates already knew.
Back when people used ink wells and quills to write things, I can see how being left handed and having to write from left to right could pose a problem, when it came to staining your shirt sleeve or smudging what you were writing. However, I think ballpoint pens eliminated that problem.
I'm old and the love letters I wrote and received in years long gone by were NEVER printed. However, I'm old and perhaps today text messages on cell phones that say, "l luv u. Imo u r 2G2BT." work. How romantic...?
Thank
you ZOG. I love your posts. You actually write paragraphs that make cogent points. Better yet, when you reply to something I post, it tells me that what I write are not just notes in bottles tossed into the sea, that nobody will ever read.