[datakan]

Cursive is only useful for fountain pens. It was a sign of its times and is totally pointless and even counterproductive today. I get really sick of people exclaiming how important cursive is today when everyone types and everything is printed.

"Back in my day we taught the kids cursive!!" How many of them used fountain pens? I'm guessing zero. You just wasted their time instead of teaching them something valuable.

[coliveira]

Cursive was and still is a fast way to write by hand. If you want to be illiterate without a computer, then you don't want to learn handwriting. But if you don't want to be illiterate without a computer, learning cursive is a fast and efficient way to do it.

[datakan]

Literacy and cursive have nothing to do with each other.

[iejcjwnxkwnxjw]

It’s a bit disingenuous of you to try and claim this when you have basically no understanding of the use of cursive nowadays. Not sure if you’re just a kid out of high school proclaiming rebel knowledge of domains you know nothing about, or just a really disingenuous person with a terrible case of arrogance, either way, you really ought to stop and reevaluate some of your positions—they are depressingly wrong.

[isjcjwndkwmds]

> I'm guessing zero.

There’s your problem: guessing.

Knowing how to write cursive is a useful skill even if underutilised, heck, it’s a useful skill even if just for the artistry of it. It might be niche, it might be unnecessary, but saying it is a “waste of time” is just ridiculous.

[datakan]

> Knowing how to write cursive is a useful skill

No, it's not. At all

[iejcjwnxkwnxjw]

Spoken like a true child of the internet. Well done.

[slater]

It actually is. Very much so.