Zack Hill by John Deering and John Newcombe for January 05, 2015

I think that’s italics, not cursive. (Mr. Belmont means writing in cursive with a pencil/pen, Zack.)

I’ve recently gone back to writing cursive because I hadn’t used it in decades and had just about forgotten how.

Young people who can no longer write (or read!) cursive boggles my mind as much as programmers who don’t know touch typing. In a world now dominated by computers, one would think that touch typing would be a necessary life skill, but apparently it’s not. (Yes, I write in cursive, and I can type with all my fingers.)

Templo, you are right. Deering and Newcomb need some computer lessons …

In texting of course.

When I was in school, it was called manuscript writing. Probably called it cursive after I graduated hs.

It is common in old movies to have the camera show a letter the audience must read. I predict the day will come when there will be subtitles for such scenes. (You heard it here first, folks.)

I failed typing in High School but never forgot the keys! I type on the keyboard with little problem. My Grandmother was a newpaper typesetter and never learned to type. She used the two finger method. I am 83 yrs. and still can type not as fast but fairly accurate. I insisted by 5 children learn to type and all do know how to use a keyboard.

As much as I love being able to use cursive, its life as widespread skill became completely obsolete around the turn of the millennium. I expect that stylized script will persist forever in the world of art, no matter how ubiquitous digital tools become. But the only “essential” writing skill for communication and data keeping has ever been – or ever will be – block lettering.