• @[email protected]
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    4812 days ago

    I would say “cursive is how adults write, you’ll need to know it”, but that wasn’t true then either.

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 days ago

      Cursive is such a bad way to write. I used to have to decipher sloppy cursive notes on how to check airplane fixtures. I even learned it in school!

      • @[email protected]
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        311 days ago

        Good cursive flows very nicely. I got to watch my grandmother’s handwriting deteriorate as the dementia and Alzheimer’s took her. Was always amazed for well she wrote when i was younger, but her handwriting turned pretty incomprehensive as her brain was eaten away by the disease

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      611 days ago

      “You need a pen licence because that’s what you use at work”.

      Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.

      Only schoolchildren used biros.

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        611 days ago

        I actually use it myself sometimes when taking notes. It’s just the natural way to write for me. It’s faster and more space effective.

      • Goldholz
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        311 days ago

        I cant even read my own cursive from back then.

        Now i know how my teachers felt and why they constantly told me i write unreadablely. Used to be able to read it fluently lol