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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Okay. If i haven't already made my first 'old person' comment. This definitely is it.

Who can't read cursive?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

While I can read cursive just fine, I honestly struggle with 19th century (or earlier) cursive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Same here. I'm an old fart, and I can read things my parents wrote easily. But when you get to what my grandparents or great grandparents wrote.. the further back you go the more decorative flourishes the copperplate style seems to have and I've found it's not easy to make out every word.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A long time ago I once googled it thinking it was some obsolete skill like shorthand. Turns out it’s just the joined writing they taught you when you got your pen license, which is how I still write.

It apparently got phased out of the school curriculum at some point though. So the answer to your question is possibly Gen Z or Alpha

Edit: This isn’t my first old person comment but it’s a good un

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Quite a lot of people nowadays - at least not at a fluent level. I know I've gotten worse at it over time due to rarely requiring to read much of other people's handwriting or handwrite myself, to the point where even in the reasonably clear example in the article I had to stop and consider a few words. Without experience reading cursive it's noticeably harder to comprehend compared to printed text, and we've now had a whole generation grow up in a world where pretty much everything they read was printed (and usually on a screen at that) rather than handwritten.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Me. I was never taught cursive and it takes a lot of brain power and guessing to try and figure out what thigs say