Cursive VS Print

[Lucid]

I only ever use cursive when writing my signature.
Print4LYFE

 

[PJ]

I use cursive, but theres no loop-d-loops in it like Remus's, apart from g, y, j and f when i loop it to connect to the next letter. I find it easier than print. It keeps all my letter ont he line

Its not too tidy, but its legible and pretty big too.

My prints all over the place. Am I wrong to think that print is all caps?

 

[Letters]

If I want my cursive to be readable even by myself it ends up taking longer than just printing.

 

[CrazyHarij]

i only write in calligraphy

 

[CptStern]

I only write in hieroglyphics ..I'm currently using a translator . it doesnt always work, bird, eye, hand, symbol for water

 

[Raziaar]

i only write in calligraphy

My Grandfather on my mother's side(deceased) was an absolutely amazing calligraphy writer. He has his own calligraphy book he made, and it shows tons of examples of his work. It's a ****ing masterpiece!

 

[CrazyHarij]

My Grandfather on my mother's side(deceased) was an absolutely amazing calligraphy writer. He has his own calligraphy book he made, and it shows tons of examples of his work. It's a ****ing masterpiece!

Awesome, I'd love to see it. It's such an amazing artform, I'm currently learning a few different forms of it. There's some great gothic ones, but I want to incorporate my own style in it.

 

[VirusType2]

When I was in HS, I got a calligraphy pen and ink set and took up some calligraphy. Took forever to write anything, but it was extremely fancy. You get faster, but you have to be careful so you don't make any mistakes.

 

[CptStern]

it's a dead art. it's rarely used. in fact I've never seen it used at a studio or design house. even the one religious organisation I sub-contracted for used the calligraphy font. too time consuming and only a few people can do it successfully. plus there's next to no demand for that sort of thing

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Also Father Christmas isn't real and your parents are all getting divorced and will probably try to kill you.

 

[CyberPitz]

Hold on, how many people who are out of school and work at a full time job use Cursive while at work?

 

[CptStern]

doctors, dentists, lawyers, people like me who sign cheques for work every single day

 

[CrazyHarij]

it's a dead art. it's rarely used. in fact I've never seen it used at a studio or design house. even the one religious organisation I sub-contracted for used the calligraphy font. too time consuming and only a few people can do it successfully. plus there's next to no demand for that sort of thing

So you only do things for money or what?

When I was in HS, I got a calligraphy pen and ink set and took up some calligraphy. Took forever to write anything, but it was extremely fancy. You get faster, but you have to be careful so you don't make any mistakes.

it helps you get good hand coordination, which helps with drawing as well

 

[Quixoticism]

I write in cursive mostly as it's faster and easier for me. Often times when I start writing in print if I don't pay close enough attention I'll switch to cursive.

It does suck when people can't write cursive but do anyways, but it sucks to read the writing of any person who has no hand coordination and can't write either way.

BTW Remus, great post. <3

 

[CptStern]

So you only do things for money or what?

yes, I've completely prostituted my skillz/abilities. I wont even look at it if there's not $$ signs attached to it.


no really I rarely have time for myself much less creating artwork for the hell of it. It's not sad, it's the way life is

 

[VirusType2]

^ actually, I had friends ask me to write a letter in calligraphy for their girlfriends or whatever, and gave me like $10.

I was like 15.


I liked the way the letters looked, but then Gangster Tattoos ruined everything.

 

[Sheepo]

I suck so badly at cursive, it looks just like it did in third grade when I first learned it. I only use it to write my signature, but it looks so stupid that I'm going to come up with a special way to write it so my signature doesn't have to look retarded.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I always print my writing. But after just trying it out, it turns out that I have very good cursive writing when I use a pencil, but it looks awful when I use a ball-point. My writing generally looks neater when I use a pencil, but it gets messy because pencil gets rubbed around.

 

[VirusType2]

When I write, I press extremely hard like a serial killer.

 

[CyberPitz]

doctors, dentists, lawyers, people like me who sign cheques for work every single day

Besides signing shit.

 

[CptStern]

ok just the last part but doctors use cursive to write perscriptions ...probably why they're notoriously hard to read

 

[Remus]

Or maybe they just missed calligraphy class.

 

[CyberPitz]

I've always thought doctors and the like did cursive on prescriptions because it kinda adds to their signature. Like "Well, that's close to my signature, but that's not my handwriting"

 

[VirusType2]

nah. I'll tell you. While taking many years in medical school taking boat-loads of notes, your handwriting turns to shit. not to mention periodic re-certification for new techniques. You have to write very fast to keep up.

 

[Tyguy]

all i know is that at one point during my schooling i was told adults wrote in cursive and we had to learn it.

****ing lying ****. Cursive is pointless. People write in cursive for one reason, so other people have trouble reading it.

"hey guys, lets create a completely different way to write so we appear more intelligent. Also, lets make the letter Z ****ing impossible to remember."

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

My printing is awful but my cursive? People might think I wrote it using my anus and probably would take just as long.

 

[ríomhaire]

Cursive. How the hell are you supposed to do a long-ass English exam paper while writing in slow-ass print? Thank god I never have to do that again though. I still write cursive, but will switch to print in some circumstances.

Edit: Seriously I don't know how people can stand to write for any length in print. When filling in forms I have to conentrait on not letting myself falling back into cursive. For forms and the like, I use print for absolute clarity and formality, but if you start writing whole sentences in print it looks like an American's stolen your notebook.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

So now the question is ... is it only American schools that are unsuccessful in getting the majority of their students to write in cursive, or is ríomhaire an exception to the rule?

 

[Eejit]

if you start writing whole sentences in print it looks like an American's stolen your notebook.

Funny because it's true

 

[Ennui]

I write in print, but it has elements of cursive and I can write in it faster than I can in cursive, although I am quite good at writing in cursive. Good luck reading it if you aren't me though. I almost never use cursive except when I'm signing something.

 

[Saturos]

I only use cursive for my signatures. I can't read other ppl's cursive worth a shit.
That said, when I write, I usually type & print anyways.

Professional documents usually aren't typed in cursive fonts.
New Times Roman > handwritten cursive

 

[VirusType2]

Mine is actually a custom hybrid that is faster than cursive and easier to read. Basically, it looks like print but many letters will connect or there will be trace lines everywhere.

I'm also a bit of an artist but definitely a perfectionist, so if it's for something important, my handwriting can be as fancy or neat as I want. Messing with Calligraphy and drawing unique fonts in HS helped with that too.

 

[TheHamster22]

Cursive writing on the whole is a more personal thing, I mean I only ever use it write notes, do work, and the likes of that sort... Oh and write birthday cards but that's about it. HOWEVER that's about all I write so cursive all the way!

(Obviously though any sort of formal work would be typed up on the computer making print completely obsolete except when filling in an application form to work as some customer assistant )

 

[Adabiviak]

I can read/write both, but the only time I ever run across 'script' is when my grandmother sends me a handwritten letter. Otherwise, it basically doesn't exist.

 

[Azner]

Illiterate.

I guess theres a good time for either?

 

[Survivr]

I find it incredibly hard to write "cursive" (I call it joined-up, seeing as I'm english.) It takes too long for me so I gave up a while ago and now write in block/print.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Yeah at first I didn't even get what cursive meant, in swedish, I kid you not, our word for it means "writing in style".

 

[Danimal]

I prefer cursive. I can't write fast in print and I think my letters in print look quite ugly. Not that my cursive is neat, but it's readable unless I'm furiously taking notes.

BTW, if you prefer print - when you have to take notes, do you do so quickly in print? Or do you carry your laptop everywhere you go and just type it in?

I write print quick.

Surrender your goods.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I used shorthand for notes. But nowadayz with my compsci courses, I take the notes on the computers we use

 

[Unfocused]

Yeah at first I didn't even get what cursive meant, in swedish, I kid you not, our word for it means "writing in style".

Same here. There's no Polish entry for "cursive" in wikipedia. At first I thought we're talking about writing in italic, since "italic" in this case means "kursywa" in Polish, which is pronounced similarily to "cursive".