Comment by awithrow
2 months ago
I'm in the US and learned it in school. I just never really needed to use it consistently. Assignments and papers that were still handwritten could be done either way. Cursive never felt noticeably faster for me to write. I'm sure it would have had I been forced to do it. By the time I was in high school (1999), i remember typing most long form assignments. Now the only time I ever read cursive is on letters from my mom and her cursive is not particularly neat or clean.
>Cursive never felt noticeably faster for me to write. I'm sure it would have had I been forced to do it.
I was forced to use cursive and it was still slower than print.
I’m not sure why cursive would be faster given the letterforms require a lot more travel.
Maybe it would be when writing with a quill where splatter and breakage were a concern, but surely not with a ballpoint pen.