Yes, if you don't want to give everyone the impression that you're a simpleton. Your penmanship speaks volumes about you when you're not there to speak for yourself.

 

That's one persons opinion. I can sign my name and that's the only cursive I'll ever need to know. People that don't know cursive can either simply print their names or make some lines in the shape of letters and pretend its cursive...that's what most people do anyway.

More slowly and with less refinement.

 

Once again, only your opinion.

Every time I have had to sign my name at closings for a house I always want to just put an X, instead of my signature. Which after a while the first one looks nothing like the last one.

Yes, if you don't want to give everyone the impression that you're a simpleton. Your penmanship speaks volumes about you when you're not there to speak for yourself.

You mean like doctors? You've read their work, right? :lol:

You mean like doctors? You've read their work, right? :lol:

 

:lol: :thumb:

Outside of signatures, there's just not any real reason for it, at least from an actual writing standpoint. You can teach how to read cursive without writing it if you want.

Once again, only your opinion.

Nope. Scientific fact.

That's one persons opinion. I can sign my name and that's the only cursive I'll ever need to know. People that don't know cursive can either simply print their names or make some lines in the shape of letters and pretend its cursive...that's what most people do anyway.

No, in the business world, if you print your name like a second grader, you will get no job, no sale and no respect. Those are just the facts.

Nope. Scientific fact.

 

link?

No, in the business world, if you print your name like a second grader, you will get no job, no sale and no respect. Those are just the facts.

 

Then simply do what I said in the second part of my post. Most signatures are unreadable anyway.

 

I was unaware signing your name was part of the interview process in society today.

No, in the business world, if you print your name like a second grader, you will get no job, no sale and no respect. Those are just the facts.

 

At least maybe then people would actually be able to read whose name it is. My cursive signature looks like a bunch of gibberish. Most people I know write their signatures as (First initial) then gibberish, (Last initial) then gibberish.

 

I have a problem with your "fact" here as it's become so common place to submit your resume and job application via computer. A lot of places will not even take paper applications anymore, it's all done online. Enterprise RAC, for example, does this and I know of several other "big chain" places that have gone paperless.

 

But to address the death of cursive, it's all because of computers. Penmanship and more specifically cursive writing is no longer needed when nearly everything is done via computers now.

 

FWIW, your signature isn't always useful in cursive. The FedEx guy delivered a package to me and upon signing a release slip, he handed the machine to me and said he needed a legible signature. He said they had to be able to read each letter of my signature. So, I had to "sign" for my package using regular print.

Most schools that are omitting the cursive are implementing classes to help children in their typing skills instead. Like they always say, the technology is here to stay. We have to adjust to it.

You mean like doctors? You've read their work, right? :lol:

They actually take a class to write like that, true story.

Lazy generation comes to miind with the posts I've read. Not an attack on anyone, it's just that things have been too simplified for you guys. If someone doesn't learn cursive, when they come upon something written in cursive it's going to look like Greek to them, even though it's written in English they're not going to be able to read it. Kind of sad.

Most schools that are omitting the cursive are implementing classes to help children in their typing skills instead. Like they always say, the technology is here to stay. We have to adjust to it.

So what's wrong with being able to read cursive as well? Dumbing down of America...