We need a forum on DU where all posts are written out by hand in cursive...

[BluesRunTheGame]

…while sitting at an old fashioned school desk. Dip pen only. And a mean old nun who’ll rap you on the knuckles with a yardstick if it’s not perfect.

[Scrivener7]

1. Hmmmm. I'm going to guess someone corrected you.

So you had to make a point by making an OP about it.

Am I close?

[BluesRunTheGame]

2. Just having fun.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I don't think I can write in cursive anymore. My hands are so used to typing (computer programmer

was trade) and thus, they get really tired if I have to actually write something!

By the way, I love the old school desk!

[BluesRunTheGame]

4. I never learned to type properly.

I remember them telling the boys that, when we grew up, there’d be a woman around to hand it off to.

[Srkdqltr]

5. Folks, cursive is not difficult to learn to read if you need it.

Neither is typing. There are places on the internet where you can get the skills if you need it.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Written by doctors

[Polly Hennessey]

7. Hmmmmm, sounds about right.

[grumpyduck]

8. We had to learn and practice cursive in grammar school,

but, in spite of that, my eighth-grade nun used to say my writing looked like someone dipped a chicken in ink and let it scrawl around on the page.

If I wrote my posts in cursive here, they'd probably have to be sent to a drugstore to get deciphered.

[Submariner]

9. Sister Perpetual Agony said I had good penmanship

but being cursed as a left hander by Satan, I was smudging the ink or pencil lead on my beautiful writing.

[electric_blue68]

14. As a left-handed Artist I used to get smudged, AND smudge a drawing if I....

I was using a 2B or even softer pencil! Arrrgggggg.
I'd have to take a kneaded eraser, and clean my hand, the areas that were supposed to be white in the drawing.

And try being forced to take Calligraphy in
Art College! I love Calligraphy BUT being forced to take it?!

[electric_blue68]

15. As a left-handed Artist I used to get smudged, AND smudge a drawing if....

I was using a 2B or even softer pencil! Arrrgggggg.
I'd have to take a kneaded eraser, and clean my hand, and othe areas that were supposed to be white, or light gray in the drawing.


And try being forced to take Calligraphy in
Art College! I love Calligraphy BUT being forced to take it?! It was rather a struggle at times.

But I still want to try ?Coke Can Calligraphy. You take a coke can an cut it in a way to make a pen nib..
So you can make these bigger letters, and decorative
swishes, curls etc. It's really cool!

[Chainfire]

10. Our school desks never looked like that. If you customized your desk it would have

sent you to the office to have your pants scorched by a wooden paddle, by a pro who knew how to raise a whelp.

If I wrote my replies in cursive, I would be more popular, because people couldn't decipher it.

[IcyPeas]

11. I loved learning how to write in cursive (script as we called it)

I took some calligraphy classes too. It's very meditative.... concentrating on each letter, each word.

That's why I think it's good for kids to learn..... they really have to concentrate.

[planetc]

12. Where'd you find my old desk?

That's like the ones we started school with in the late '40's. And the teacher would come around with a gallon jug of ink early in the day and put ink in all the inkwells. So I learned cursive, and later on I learned to type, and now I can say the wrong thing in any technology you want!

[GreenWave]

13. I am dressed even more medieval than expected.

Whack away nun!

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