The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 02, 2023

Because is written in Witchese.

Is cursive writing similar to foul language?

I think they stopped teaching cursive, so it kind of is a foreign language now.

I taught a dyslexia program once where all written work was in a certain form of cursive. It helped the brain with little connections so words could learn to flow. Since teaching that course, I believe it. Without stops and starts in the letters, spelling improved a lot. These days, computers already wire the kids’ brains to work in quick little starts and stops, so I guess it doesn’t matter any more. Still makes me sad, though.

I know a few grandmas that are teaching their grand kids how to write in cursive. It’s a good brain exercise. That and they will be able to read old letters and such. It’s crazy that schools are only teaching just enough cursive for kids to sign their name.

For all of the important stuff to sign, they use Doc-U-Sign. The only time I use cursive is for my signature on those Point Of Sale places that ask for my signature. Two curvy lines, and it passes as my signature.

Not sure why but my six year old grandson has taught himself cursive writing. Maybe because grandma talks about it all the time.

Grammie’s from Cursivalia!

That makes it a foreign language to the younger generation. What is it they teach now in that extended school year that makes it impossible to teach that skill?

Trying to read some peoples handwriting will make you curse!

They should teach cursive writing in schools again. Why did they stop anyway?

“I can read writin’, but I can’t write readin’!”

It’s really too bad that cursive writing is no longer taught. It, along with Latin, have all gone away from our schools’ curriculum. And, perhaps, this is at the root of our low text scores.

I’m surprised they still teach Spelling, since the thumb-typists all depend on “Spel-Chek” anyway.

My CPO in the Navy explained to me that he wrote all his letters home in cursive because it was faster – you don’t have to lift the pen as often…. He wrote a lot of letters, and got a lot of letters at mail call. A great lesson for a young sailor!

Grammie should have sent it via a telegram. Tell ‘her’ – grammies are always typed like a newspaper.

It still saddens me that cursive is no longer taught in schools. I get that we use keyboards for most things, and printing does work, but still.

hopefully this cursive thing doesn’t spell doom to them. :D

I still refer to it as “longhand”.

Really mess him up and write it backwards (mirror writing) in script like Leonardo Da Vince.

Most public schools have stopped teaching how to write in cursive?

Cursive writing is becoming a lost art.

Mom was a secretary back in the 1930s so when she wanted to make a note of something she didn’t want us to know she’d use shorthand.

Isn’t cursive the writing style you use to curse someone?

secret code of geezers

I have heard that cursive isn’t taught in many places anymore. Apparently Wilberforce’s school is one of them. I have met college students who can’t write it. Amazing to me. But if Brutus and Gladys want to communicate without Wilberforce knowing what they’re saying cursive is the tool!

A lot of people’s cursive writing is indecipherable anyway, so it’s just like a foreign language.

They’ve got to teach cursive, how else are little boys gonna learn to write their name in the snow.

Sad that reading, writing and arithmetic aren’t emphasized and encouraged more in this new computer age. The baby was tossed out with the bathwater it seems, literally……

All witches write in cursives, it goes back to their medieval origins.

My cursive writing is very bad, unintelligible really. My printing is not a whole lot better.

Whenever I see something like this I can’t help but think of “To Kill a Mocking Bird” (the book not the movie, I never saw the movie so it might be in there to) where Scout gets punished by her teacher for knowing how to write cursive when the class is still learning to print.

Sad comment on our current public education system. I learned cursive back in 3rd grade decades ago. Now they aren’t even teaching it in grade school or high school. As the late Joseph Sobran noted: “they used to teach Latin and Greek in High School, now they teach remedial English in College”.

was the letter in cursive cursory…?

Start teaching him cursive, Gladys. Maybe half an hour a day. It will come.

I’ve had this conversation. More than once. But then I have to admit it’s getting harder to read my own writing. Cursive or not. “No, no, those are just doodles from being bored.”

I don’t like cursive, no matter how many arguments I hear about how it helps with this skill or that brain function. If it’s a dying art, let it rest in peace. I’m left-handed and in my grade school days, my grades in penmanship were the worst. Writing in cursive was always slow and cumbersome for me, and it looked like chicken tracks. I block print when I need to, and I keep a daily journal on a Word document. I gave up cursive long ago, and don’t miss it at all.

I read this late last night on something or another, and I can’t give credit to who wrote it since that information wasn’t included: “We could eliminate an entire generation by writing everything in cursive and making all cars with manual transmissions.”