personally i’m left handed so school-taught cursive was much harder for me to write and t never got faster than block-letters (not sure what to call it, to me handwriting means non cursive and i would specify cursive but i know in other parts of the world that’s different so in this message i’ll use “block letters” to specific non-cursive) assuming i ever needed to read stuff again.
but i think the main reason people hate it because a lot of people have terrible cursive handwriting. if it took the writer 25% less time to write but it takes the reader 2x as long to read… that’s fuckin annoying lol. i’m all for people using it for their personal notes but there’s a LOT of people who shouldn’t be using cursive for anything anyone else has to read.
I used to do data entry for the post office and the number of people who addressed their letters with terrible cursive was way too high. the OCR could interpret most block-letter handwritten addresses but it couldn’t handle as many of the cursive ones because the characters are more ambiguous. often to read people’s cursive you need to use more context (ex. disambiguating through the words around it) which just isn’t possible for an address.
for people using “block letters” the OCR would only fail on like, cards for grandma addressed by little kids and times when the scan cropped out the edge of the writing. but we got tons of shitty cursive handwriting.
i later delivered mail for the post office and the distribution of block-letter vs cursive style handwriting was very different - more block-letter than cursive. making the overrepresentation of cursive amongst illegible addresses during my data entry time even more significant. it’s not a perfect sample data set but i keyed thousands of letters per day during the data entry job and when i did delivery i’d say dozens of the letters i sorted were addressed by hand most days so it was enough enough to give me strong opinions.
Because it’s impossible to read. Seriously it’s just random squiggles It could be in Arabic for all I know.
If you want to write notes to yourself in cursive go ahead I don’t care but as soon as you need to communicate with other members of the human race it’s inappropriate. Especially if you also have poor handwriting.
… Bro? I think this is peak ignorance for you. Take a breath and a step back, what’s up man?
It sounds to me like you don’t know cursive, and don’t want to learn it because it’s difficult maybe? You have to give effort to learn things. Check out cursive and kind of teach yourself the letters and how to write. I’m sure there are apps out there, too.
Surely the ignorance is on you for insisting everyone learn a pointless skill just because you like it even though it’s a literally useless life skill.
It’s a learned skill, and the reason people have trouble with it (dyslexia, etc aside) is because it isn’t as commonly used anymore. Like everything else it takes practice.
Reading sloppy cursive is no different than reading sloppy printed characters: recognizing key letters, the “shape of the word”, and context.
I see some comments of people angrily hating cursive, and that’s something a bit weird to me. Why the hate?
personally i’m left handed so school-taught cursive was much harder for me to write and t never got faster than block-letters (not sure what to call it, to me handwriting means non cursive and i would specify cursive but i know in other parts of the world that’s different so in this message i’ll use “block letters” to specific non-cursive) assuming i ever needed to read stuff again.
but i think the main reason people hate it because a lot of people have terrible cursive handwriting. if it took the writer 25% less time to write but it takes the reader 2x as long to read… that’s fuckin annoying lol. i’m all for people using it for their personal notes but there’s a LOT of people who shouldn’t be using cursive for anything anyone else has to read.
I used to do data entry for the post office and the number of people who addressed their letters with terrible cursive was way too high. the OCR could interpret most block-letter handwritten addresses but it couldn’t handle as many of the cursive ones because the characters are more ambiguous. often to read people’s cursive you need to use more context (ex. disambiguating through the words around it) which just isn’t possible for an address.
for people using “block letters” the OCR would only fail on like, cards for grandma addressed by little kids and times when the scan cropped out the edge of the writing. but we got tons of shitty cursive handwriting.
i later delivered mail for the post office and the distribution of block-letter vs cursive style handwriting was very different - more block-letter than cursive. making the overrepresentation of cursive amongst illegible addresses during my data entry time even more significant. it’s not a perfect sample data set but i keyed thousands of letters per day during the data entry job and when i did delivery i’d say dozens of the letters i sorted were addressed by hand most days so it was enough enough to give me strong opinions.
Because it’s impossible to read. Seriously it’s just random squiggles It could be in Arabic for all I know.
If you want to write notes to yourself in cursive go ahead I don’t care but as soon as you need to communicate with other members of the human race it’s inappropriate. Especially if you also have poor handwriting.
… Bro? I think this is peak ignorance for you. Take a breath and a step back, what’s up man?
It sounds to me like you don’t know cursive, and don’t want to learn it because it’s difficult maybe? You have to give effort to learn things. Check out cursive and kind of teach yourself the letters and how to write. I’m sure there are apps out there, too.
Otherwise like… don’t be a dick about the things you don’t like.
Surely the ignorance is on you for insisting everyone learn a pointless skill just because you like it even though it’s a literally useless life skill.
Reading that “writing skill is literally pointless” is both going to fuel some laughs and despair for some time to come.
You’re explaining why you dislike it and why you prefer that it’s not used, but why the hate towards other people simply because they use it?
It’s a learned skill, and the reason people have trouble with it (dyslexia, etc aside) is because it isn’t as commonly used anymore. Like everything else it takes practice.
Reading sloppy cursive is no different than reading sloppy printed characters: recognizing key letters, the “shape of the word”, and context.