Since cursive writing is no longer taught, people don't have signatures?

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We can write top secret stuff in cursive and no one under 30 could decipher it.

It's all part of the plan to have everything electronic and traceable.

Instead of a signature, you'll have a QR code that represents your signature.

Online, real-time, QR code verification, using public/private key encryption, will take the place of you signing things.

100%

Founding documents of the US as originally written are also secret code.

Such a random factoid

It seems rather significant to me.

You cannot read the Declaration of Independence as penned by Thomas Jefferson?

That's pretty sad.

Instead they learn that they can chose their own gender and that they shouldn't listen to their own parents, but go behind their backs.



I guess we are reaping what we've sown.

Last Edited by JPOP on 05/28/2022 11:09 AM

A simple "X" is legal in all 50 states. I've done it many times. Impossible to steal my signature when it changes every single time!

Are you talkin about me behind my back says the Young millennial

No more autographs...

Cadillac will need a new font...

OP: you touched a nerve with me with this thread. As a writer and an autograph collector, written words are my passion. I take their usage very seriously and as a result am regularly called a "grammar Nazi" for doing so... but TOUGH!

Like it or not, we are still judged by the words we use and how we use them and it's pretty easy to determine one's background by his spelling and syntax.

As a child during the 1950's, cursive was taught not only via hours of tedious tracings in our notebooks but also by a large row of letters that ran along the top of the blackboards. But as a "southpaw" [now there's a word you don't hear often anymore!] I was at an automatic disadvantage: the wooden desks we sat at had curving tops that wouldn't allow you to properly angle your left hand when writing, thus forcing one to curl the arm around into an unnatural position which distorted whatever you would write, even slanting it in an opposite direction as you tried to compensate.

And to make matters worse, my teachers would invariably try to get me to conform and write "normally" like the other kids, even sending hateful notes home to my parents insisting they do something about to correct my "insolent behavior". And although I'm sure they were referring to my stubborn refusals to comply with their controlling demands, I won those battles.

Even so, It wasn't until high school that I had a full-sized desk that allowed me to use my left hand to write in something other than a cramped position. And it was then that I further retaliated by learning to type 70wpm and resorted to handing in my homework thus. It pissed off some teachers [who probably couldn't type] and thrilled others so it was tossup victory. But one takes what one can from this life!

As an autograph collector, I've studied Graphology for decades; that pseudo-science that examines handwriting to draw conclusions about the author. And believe it or not, it is a very valid one that is still admissible in a court of law while audio recordings frequently are not. TRUST ME: more than a person's ego is fully revealed when they scrawl their name on a card or document.

Before I wrote these words, I dug into my autograph files and retrieved the signature of an obscure actor from the 1900's named Harry Williams and marveled once again at the signature he left behind for posterity. And although I've never been able to find out anything about the man or his stage career it never really mattered since I bought his autograph for the sheer elegance and beauty of his handwriting. And, that's enough of a legacy for me!

I'm convinced that the abandonment of cursive writing is just another attempt to homogenize society into a bland parody of the human individual spirit and it's one far more dangerous than would readily appear because -like all successful propaganda- it attacks the very young and thus ensnares them for life.

So, today I'm grateful that as a child I was forced to endure those agonizing hours of penmanship... and there's another word that today is archaic!

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 06/22/2022 09:50 AM

How does it feel to be a mere drone in a hive of many millions? And 'lest you misunderstand, that's a genuine "drone" with wings and not propellers controlled by AI.

no its not...there was a video i saw years ago of teenagers being asked to read a copy of the constitution, it was in cursive.
they could NOT read it.

Watchu tokin' 'bout Willis? In my country, cursive is taught and block letters is NOT EVER taught! That is why I can write cursive in Cyrillic alphabet but can't read Russian websites too well as a cursive G is a block D, LOL!

I’m teaching my grandchildren cursive, myself. I write them letters
written line by line in both block script, with the same words in cursive,
underneath. They found it easy and interesting that way. I have not
yet just written cursive letters, but it will come. They are young and
picked it up readily. Went to an educational supply place that carried
cursive script dryboards so they can begin learning to write it. The emphasis at the moment is getting them reading it. They really like knowing now they can read cursive...




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i adore graphology!
i copied by hand three books on the subject so id have my own notes at home.
that was years ago.

anyway the cursive writing actually WIRES your brain to conform to how the letters are shaped.
i hope im explaining this correctly.
the cursive from Germany is different than the cursive America uses.
the different ways of shaping those letters actually wires our brains to act in certain ways.
our letters are CURVED which affects us differently than if the letters were more POINTED.

so yes i absolutely believe this NOT having cursive taught to our children WILL affect them immensely.
mine all know, thank goodness!

poster, you may like to check out the /graphology sub over a certain RED place.
i see the samples being posted and i just dont have time to go through all of the different things i see in them.
for one sample, it could take me a couple of hours to be thorough.

I'd really like to see a sample of your handwriting, Sport; because I'd instantly know more about you than you'd find comfortable.

Very interesting -and VALID- comments! Thanks for that unique perspective!

Cursive writing is just swipe-to-text with a pen. It looks like shit

It's also a scam to use more ink

BLESS YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS! You are giving them a rare opportunity by sharing a simple, yet lasting bit of a now-vanishing education.

I too was very lucky: as a child I was exposed to classic literature and music at an early age; while my pre-teen playmates were listening to Elvis and devouring comic books, I absorbed Beethoven, Wagner, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and my all-time favorite, Marcus Aurelius.

At the time it may have made me an outcast among my peers, but as an adult that timeless beauty and wisdom has never failed me during times of trial.

And I doubt that it ever will.

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 06/22/2022 10:23 AM

Congratulations on proving the old saying, "a mind is a terrible thing to waste." Your vapid comments also remind of how that saying was later convoluted by the obese who claimed that "a waist is a terrible thing to mind!" So, it's ALL in your personal perspective, isn't it?

Of course, it has been further written that "ignorance is bliss."

If that's truly the case then you must be very content, indeed!

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 06/22/2022 10:17 AM

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you guest correctly GRANDPA!