While working on entering docket information from the 1930s into a database, Archives Technician Sara came across some cursive handwriting. The handwriting was entered into a docket book by a clerk of the Southern District of California court. While some of it was written in beautiful script, others left her wondering, “What does this say?” Can you read this?
I had incredibly good coffee this afternoon at a Texas-local small chain called Summer Moon. They make their own sweet cream. And the beans are roasted over a woodfire. Really well balanced, with nice sweetness and bold coffee notes! Also the staff were really nice! They guy WHO took my order wrote my name in careful cursive. And the assistant manager was sooooo sweet and smart and gave me a bunch of really exciting music suggestions!!
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“On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.”
“It’s a realization. And it hits me hard, so hard that my heart has become hollow. It’s hit me deep, though I can swim. It comes with the painful ache, so painful I feel numb. It caused tears, so many that infinity is outnumbered. And it’s a realization, when I realized I was alone in my world that was supposed to be yours too.”
Most people don’t even use cursive for signatures. Eventually, they all just dissolve into squiggles.
Plus Some people’s cursive can be pretty unreadable even when they do put in the effort.
Oh noooooooo, society is chaaaaaaanging, what will we dooooooo~???
I was taught cursive, told I would need it in high school when we started writing essays.
Teachers didn’t accept anything in cursive. By the end of highschool teachers were not accepting hand-written essays and everything had to be typed. Though, they assured me cursive would probably be a thing in university because you have to write essays in class sometimes too and wouldn’t have access to computer to type it up.
In university, we were warned, that cursive can be a faster method of writing, but harder to make legible when writing quickly. We were warned if the professor couldn’t easily and quickly tell what we were saying, it would count as not having written anything. This included in-class exam essays on a time limit. So no one used cursive.
So while I was constantly being assured that cursive would be very useful when I grew up, it only became increasingly obsolete.
Why would we continue to teach obsolete skills? Why waste the time?
That being said… kids are exposed to a lot of different fonts… some of which are cursive. I think they can figure it out.
cursive is more of an art form than it is a way of life now a days and i appreciate the beauty of the script but its not practical unless you can do it really well and quickly for anything school related tbh.
i love writing in cursive but honestly i’ve never, ever needed to use it for any reason at all
Mnnn… depends on your profession and career, imo. Like, if you are a historian and you go through near-ancient documents and those include English, you are most likely going to run across cursive. So even though you don’t need to be able to WRITE in cursive, I think it’s important to be able to READ it.
01.06.2019 || As promised, the new bullet journal is here, and I’ve kicked it up a gear this year to be more arty and more journally and still be as functional as before
