• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fuck cursive. Being forced to write in that was absolute torture. The forced use of specific esoteric hand-cramping illegible scribbles is asinine.

    There surely was a use for penmanship before the proliferation of ballpoint pens and typewriters, but the way it was taught while I was in school was completely backwards. The intent of writing in script is to quickly flow from one letter to another without needing to lift the nib of a quill; rote learning of individual hieroglyphs with full disregard for the writer’s natural hand movements is at best asinine, and at worst cruel.

    The fact that we were tormented decades in the past doesn’t justify more torment now. Be better.

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      I find cursive is very useful when writing notes that only I will ever need to read. Reading and writing another persons cursive has never been easy for me and it has never impacted my life with one exception. I cannot read post cards from my aunt. Oh, and that time a decade ago when I had to fill out the “I will not cheat” pledge on the back of the SAT.

      Turns out if you need to write something with speed we have these things that are like typewriters, but they don’t even jam!

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          Never tried. Apparently yes, but I sound like a child reading each word like, “yeah, that’s definitely’vested’ I’m sure!”. I doubt the next generation will except a few people.

          I see your point, but I’m not sure I believe somebody could lie about it’s contents even in the distant future with how many legible copies there are.

          On another note, this website exists which is super cool! https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/downloads

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            1 year ago

            There are books out there that haven’t been scanned or translated. Even some that aren’t that old. It’s such an easy thing to learn, why wouldn’t you?

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          I have heard of this argument many times and it never made any sense. Is it really a big deal that kids these days might have trouble reading the original 1787 hemp copy, The one they keep in a climate controlled room in dc? Even the Supreme Court Justices use print transcriptions. This always seems like a purely sentimental arguement

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            1 year ago

            Voicing pride that you’ve never read the constitution of a country you don’t even live in is weirder 😬

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          You mean the one that starts with “congrefs” because the long s was a thing at the time and the letter f had a different meaning?

          How much time should we spend teaching school children about 200 year old antiquated orthography?

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      1 year ago

      I was taught cursive and I do not remember it being anything like that. I am sorry for your experiences but I assure you they are not universal