Prickly City by Scott Stantis for November 11, 2023

Some of those older writings in cursive are written with the long s. It makes it a bit harder to read.

Pick one:

1. He doesn’t understand cursive,

2. He doesn’t understand the general concept,

3. …

Nobody reads history anyway – we make the same mistakes over and over again.

Q: who is Vivek’s mother? A: Mommy Ramaswamy.

It’s all in text, Carmen. I’ve read the Declaration of Independence. In print. I’ve seen the long hand version, and read some of it that way, but all of it? Why?

And I would be surprised if almost anyone here can decipher the Elizabethan Secretary Hand. What a tragedy, we can’t read documents written by King James:

www . sothebys . com/en/buy/auction/2019/english-literature-history-childrens-books-and-illustrations/king-james-i-document-signed-1610

You can, of course: It’s printed in a book.

About ten years ago I served as the Assistant Principal in my middle school. Much of my job revolved around student discipline.

Teachers would write an office referral and send the student to my office. I would talk to them and we would discuss the student. Afterwards the student would have to SIGN their referral.

This would always prove difficult for many. I had 6th, 7th and 8th graders with NO idea how to sign their own name. They could, poorly, print it, but sign it, no. So I made it a point that they could not leave until the paper was signed.

Over the years there were a few who developed a strong proficiency in their own signature.

I don’t understand why you’re putting “I don’t understand” as a question?

Learning cursive is a waste of time.

As for the argument that historical documents are written in cursive: the Bible is in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, but you don’t see most religious fundamentalists learning those languages.

The original Magna Carta is unreadable to modern people, regardless of whether they know cursive.

We trust translators and historians for far more important things than historical documents. And yes, that even applies to the Declaration and Constitution.

How often does anybody read historical documents in their original form?

I rely on the work of historians (and translators). When I read historical documents (which I certainly don’t do every day) I read them in Times New Roman, Arial or some other easy to read font.

All this talk about cursive makes me wonder with the amount of things that students need to learn nowadays why do we still have schools that are only 9 months long.

Actually, about half of his writing is in print, not cursive. (“r”, capital letters….)

So, if I understand correctly, Stanti is suggesting that we all need to learn cursive, in case once in our lives we happen upon a historical piece……………..#addled