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I am so happy to hear someone respond to the uselessness of cursive writing.
I am a former elementary teacher and have now been in adult education for
many years.
In my opinion cursive writing is a waste---who has ever read a book in
cursive writing or anything else that needed to be read without laboring
over all the curls and swirls of cursive. I have seen lovely cursive writing
(like that of Benjamin Franklin) and couldn't read a word of it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Gladstone [mailto:kate@global2000.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 3:13 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:854] Re: as you see things ... does the
importance of knowin...
Dahlia finds important:
> know[ing] how
> to write your name in cursive since the rest of the world seems to do this
> as
> part of a signature.
Laws in the USA and elsewhere (yes, I've checked this out with lawyers!)
don'
t require "cursive" of any description as the style for a handwritten
signature
- many people, including many highly educated people sign their names (and
write other things) in a style that an elementary-school teacher would
regard
as some form of "printing" (or, at least, they write in a semi-joined style
with print-like forms, something that a typical USA elementary-school
teacher
would probably have no name for: as it falls somewhere between school-style
"cursive" and school-style "printing").
As far as my lawyer pals and I can determine, the idea that "all
signatures must use cursive" originated among elementary-school teachers as
a "motivational device": something they could tell to children who'd just
learned to "print", in order to persuade children to accept a forced change
of their brand-new printed handwriting to that very elaborate thing we in
America call "cursive."
(I say "we in America" because Roman-alphabet-users in many other parts of
the world assign the name "cursive" - orn the equivalent term in whatever
language other than English - to a wide range of styles often much simpler
than the typical USA school-cursive varieties.
For instance: most of the styles that teachers in Australia or the UK - or
Sweden or Iceland or Germany or Nigeria - call "cursive," USA/Canadian
schoolteachers
regard as "printing.")
Yours for better letters,
Kate Gladstone - Handwriting Repair
kate@global2000.net
http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair
325 South Manning Boulevard
Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA
telephone 518/482-6763
AND REMEMBER ...
you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I
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