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crooked-v
3 hours ago
"In cursive" is just filtering for people old enough to have been taught cursive.
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spullara
3 hours ago
sadly my kids were just recently taught cursive in elementary school for some unknown reason
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wavemode
3 hours ago
Learning it is mostly useful for being capable of reading it, esp. when encountering historical documents (or when encountering old people)
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reaperducer
2 hours ago
Or encountering California license plates. Or finding Walgreens.
Not wanting to learn cursive is like not wanting to know lower case just because caps lock exists.
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inerte
2 hours ago
I learned in Brazil. Here in the California I asked my son's kindergarten teacher if she would teach cursive, and she said they don't teach calligraphy and I've never seen it described this way, but she's right.
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