Cursive a lost art

So few people had legible cursive that it wasn't really as much of an art as a timesaver. Now, a beautiful, legible cursive hand is an art, but many people can print as fast as they can write cursive, and messy printing is easier to read than messy cursive, so I don't feel cursive writing is really practical.

It probably will be. I don't write in cursive. My handwriting is so abysmal that I only write in cursive when my teacher requires me to. Sometimes when I write fast I write in cursive, since writing in print takes a longer time. Though after writing in cursive I have to immediately translate my writing into print, lest I can't understand what I wrote down.

For me it really depends on what I am doing. If I am taking notes for something, I will usually write in cursive as it is a lot quicker. But when writing something like for an Article, or even something I might want to talk about and share here, I tend to print. I just cannot imagine people just going mostly to printing and leaving cursive behind.

Interesting, I live in Georgia and heard on the news the other night that they are dropping cursive writing from the school curriculum here. I don't understand it myself. I feel for the children that move from this state to other states that still require it. It'll make it hard for the ones that don't know how to write in cursive.

I think cursive is outdated. Cursive was created to write faster, but now days we have typing. This is why shorthand is no longer used. I don't use cursive at all, except when signing my name. Cursive was a dumb invention in my opinion.

I had a short conversation with my Mom about this a few weeks ago. I was signing Christmas cards and lamented about all the time I wasted learning cursive in second grade and being told that I would have to write in cursive for everything from that point on. And now all I ever write in cursive is my name when I sign it. Mom told me about how when she was young she would write letters to people and they would all be in cursive. She might have called me a spoiled and privileged child who didn't appreciate the art of cursive once or twice. Yes, I think cursive is a lost art. I learned it, but I've never used it.