As I made abundantly clear in an
earlier post, I am not a fan of cursive. Learning it didn’t help me write (my
handwriting is still a “child-like scrawl”) and it never made me any faster.
Plus all that instruction never let me decipher cursive writing any better. The
m’s and n’s look the same! And if someone forgets the dot over the i, forget
being able to figure out if it’s an e or an o. And is it a d or is it a c and
an l? You’d think context would be able to help me figure this out, but I’d
have to be able to understand the rest of the sentence first.
And the nerve, replacing it with
typing. It’s not like I can type sixty words a minute on a slow day and
actually understand what’s on the page.
Damn these new-fangled ways of communication!
There’s no way a text or an email can be filled with as much thought and
consideration as a letter just because it’s faster. Soon those beautiful,
curved letters forming coherent sentences will be replaced by txt spk and no 1
wll b abl 2 undrstnd ech othr NEmre. Except the people who take the time to
understand text speak. For the rest of you, that sentence is just an unbreakable
cipher, isn’t it?
Seriously, I don’t even know if that’s
real text speak. I’m actually one of those people who spells out everything.
But still, I get the gist of it a lot more than I understand cursive.
So, in summation, good riddance,
cursive, and the hand cramps you gave me. I’ll stick with the carpal tunnel
from spending all day at the computer, thank you.
