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Showing Original Post only (View all)The problem with you kids today is that you don't write in cursive [View all]
And the problem is that we don't measure in cubits, we use computers and calculators and not slide-rules, etc. etc.
Cursive writing is not one of the 7 sacraments, last I checked.
Cursive writing is not sacrosanct.
It's to help you write with fountain pens. Who does that? If you actually know someone who does, you are proving my point.
Get over it. Cursive writing has been disappearing for decades now and it's not a moral nor an educational failing that it is. Our access and ability to consume reading materials is far higher now in many respects because cursive is disappearing.
It's not a moral failing or indicative of anything negative.
Do you miss reading parchment? Do you miss reading off engraved stones to get information?
At one point, West handed her a letter she had written with the help of a friend to Martins mother explaining what happened. She looked at it but then said she couldnt read cursive handwriting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/important-prosecution-witness-returns-in-zimmerman-trial-spoke-to-martin-right-before-killing/2013/06/27/1c26c512-df04-11e2-ad2e-fcd1bf42174d_story.html
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There are good, cognitive reasons for cursive with regards to language processing.
politicat
Jun 2013
#2
+1 & People don't know that physical actions have physical STRUCTURAL effects upon the neurons
patrice
Jun 2013
#31
I don't think it's a reasonable system, I just don't think it's the script of Satan.
politicat
Jun 2013
#70
Why didn't she write in whatever script she writes in? Or doesn't she write at all?
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#16
no matter her reading and writing skills, what matters is that she is a witness to what happened
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#24
To enter a writing as evidence, you need a witness to testify that it is genuine and unaltered
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#36
it's pretty arbitrary of you to say that a printed signature is less than a cursive signature
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#33
The NC state legislature passed a bill requiring cursive be taught in schools.
alarimer
Jun 2013
#49