[traceroute66]

One of the most spectacular examples of penmanship I ever saw was sitting in a meeting with a lady who could effortlessly write phrases and paragraphs in italics... cursive italics ! It was perfect in every possible measurement. (And no this wasn't decades ago, this is 21st century).

But I digress! I did also want to state that I disagree with the author's statement "Nobody writes it anymore".

Clearly the author has not met many doctors or lawyers or spent much time in Europe.

Cursive is very much still in use by all three of the above.

[daneel_w]

Italicized cursive was what was taught in Swedish primary schools while it was still part of standard education (meaning at least through the whole 1980s), and I suspect it was the same in many other European countries.

[usrn]

They taught millennials to write in cursive. I only stopped because some of my teachers couldn't read it. It took work to write in print as effortlessly.

[traceroute66]

> I only stopped because some of my teachers couldn't read it.

Unlikely you'd get away with that in a European school, irrespective of how bad your writing is !

Here's a French newspaper article from 2012 bemoaning the fact that Calefornians are barely taught cursive. ;-) [1]

https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2012/11/28/01003-20121...

[xboxnolifes]

It's not like there aren't American outcries about how schooling changing decade to decade. But like everything, it's just an outcry from people who worry about the most minor of things that change.

[zeroego]

Just my experience, but as a millennial growing up in the US, when I was in say 3rd grade or so we had a short unit on cursive and then I never used it again. When it came time to start signing things as an adult I had forgotten almost all of it. Years later someone commented that I signed the first letter of my last name in lowercase, oops...

Another tidbit someone may find interesting, going through elementary school in the early 90s I was forced to write right handed, despite being a natural lefty. This was due to the teachers religious leanings. I grew up in a major metro area as well. I can write with both hands now, but prefer right handed writing so the spirals of notebooks don't push up against my hand. Anytime I pick up a new hobby I have a weird decision to make about what hand I want to use. Still haven't figured out if I bowl left or right handed!