Your thoughts on Cursive..

[tp4tissue]

Now that it's a new conspiracy involving the constitution being stolen by Nicholas Cage who may or may not wish to prevent our youngsters from reading it, and thus not knowing their individual soverignty to own guns, that which being, the solution to all of life's problems.

You know Tp4 had a conversation, a beautiful conversation, some would say the best conversation ever by his MIT uncle, it's about god damn time we stop spend $Billions of dollars on a wasteful radical left writing system which only empower the mexicans and canada. You know print is just as good, Tp4 writes in print, a very beautiful hand others have told me, maybe they're pretty smart, IDK, maybe, but if Tp4 hears it all the time, we can be pretty confident it's true.

[fohat.digs]

When I was in school we were required to use cursive writing for everything (except math) and I can still do it very well, although I very seldom do (even my signature is not done in cursive).

That said, I have a great deal of trouble reading most old documents because the personal stylization was so rampant and resulted in so much deviation from the basics. I wonder whether lawyers got a lot of business from people who were otherwise literate but still couldn't read important documents. Typewriters have only even existed for a century and a half after all.

Surprisingly, even though my kids are just a little over 2 years apart, the elder one was taught cursive (about 3rd grade?) while the younger was not. Same school, same teachers, weird.

[YALE70]

I love how my only use from years of being force fed cursive during elementary school was to help create my official signature during my teens - which has steadily devolved into nonsensical scribbles by my twenties.

Truly a worthwhile use of class time. Certainly couldn't have done anything better.

[kurplop]

Was that a sample of your writing, TP? If so, I'm impressed.

[noisyturtle]

We were taught cursive in grade school, they even had that strip that goes around the upper walls with the standard alphabet, and below the full cursive one as if they were equally important. I still have the memory of practicing and learning cursive, but have never once used it in my adult life. Early on I used to sign with cursive, but later adopted a much quicker and more distinct way of signing.

If you want flowery lettering, calligraphy kicks the **** out of cursive anyway. What is shown in the op picture is calligraphy, not cursive.

[tp4tissue]

Was that a sample of your writing, TP? If so, I'm impressed.

Unfortunately not, the kurplop.

There is no evidence that Tp4 knows how to read and/or write.

Some written samples exist in the old calligraphy thread.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=66341.msg1554168#msg1554168

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=66341.msg1556527#msg1556527

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=87388.msg2353268#msg2353268

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59329.msg2351725#msg2351725

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59329.msg2255492#msg2255492

[chyros]

beautiful but illegible

[Leslieann]

who may or may not wish to prevent our youngsters from reading it, and thus not knowing their individual soverignty to own guns, that which being, the solution to all of life's problems.

It's not like there's no translations of it.

Still trying to figure out why some lawmakers haven't read it (in all 3 branches of gov.), they claim to, but clearly haven't.

[tp4tissue]

It's not like there's no translations of it.

Still trying to figure out why some lawmakers haven't read it (in all 3 branches of gov.), they claim to, but clearly haven't.

Identical to religion, the priests claim to embody Christianity, then they do, well, you know, the thing priests do.

[fohat.digs]

why some lawmakers haven't read it

That could prove quite challenging for many of them.

The original Constitution is about 4000 words long (about the equivalent of a good magazine article) and with the amendments it is about 7000 (about the same as a short story.

Fortunately, I have a T-shirt that tells them the basics of what they need to do.