Reason #2,103 to mock America's education system

[HVC]

Seriously?  There are people who never write in cursive?

Seriously?  You are just now finding this out?

Must be cultural. I might hate cursive but my hand writing in an hybrid mess of cursive & block. I could never write only in Block.

I guess a lot of Americans dont write in cursive.  I am as surprised as you and BB.

Except Neil and Max aren't Americans.

harumph!

The only people i see regularly writing in cursive are docters, but no one can read their writing anyway.

[Capetan Mihali]

I use proper cursive pretty often, and pseudo-cursive is my default. 

One summer in high school I decided that my printed handwriting looked too childish, so I consciously trained myself to use cursive.  I wrote tests and essays with it during high school, and nobody complained about the legibility, even though I used to have atrocious handwriting as a kid.

[Neil]

Qu'est-ce?

It's funny, I've never written "Keske", I've typed it often but if I'm writing I'll write it properly.

And yet it's become an integral part of your Languish personna, as much as moving back to Quebec because you missed your dad's Wii, being angry about getting mixed up with Gen. Wolfe and being the last native Languishite.

[grumbler]

Must be cultural. I might hate cursive but my hand writing in an hybrid mess of cursive & block. I could never write only in Block.

And there is no one you know of who eschews cursive?  I am astonished.  I have known non-cursive-users in every country I have lived in or visited for any length of time.

I am not so surprised that Canadians use cursive.  I am surprised that they didn't even realize that there are people who don't.

[crazy canuck]

Seriously?  There are people who never write in cursive?

Seriously?  You are just now finding this out?

Must be cultural. I might hate cursive but my hand writing in an hybrid mess of cursive & block. I could never write only in Block.

I guess a lot of Americans dont write in cursive.  I am as surprised as you and BB.

Except Neil and Max aren't Americans.

Neil is always the exception.  You have to remember he is more Texan then anything and Max is the exception that proves the rule in this case.

[grumbler]

I use proper cursive pretty often, and pseudo-cursive is my default. 

One summer in high school I decided that my printed handwriting looked too childish, so I consciously trained myself to use cursive.  I wrote tests and essays with it during high school, and nobody complained about the legibility, even though I used to have atrocious handwriting as a kid.

Cursive does require a lot of practice, but is perfectly legible given that practice.  Bad cursive is much worse than bad block letters, though.  As a teacher I have seen plenty of both.

[Grey Fox]

Qu'est-ce?

It's funny, I've never written "Keske", I've typed it often but if I'm writing I'll write it properly.

And yet it's become an integral part of your Languish personna, as much as moving back to Quebec because you missed your dad's Wii, being angry about getting mixed up with Gen. Wolfe and being the last native Languishite.

Fighting it at every turn is also part of the personna.

Am I really the last?

[crazy canuck]

I am not so surprised that Canadians use cursive.  I am surprised that they didn't even realize that there are people who don't.

I am not surprised that you are not suprised that we are surprised but I am surprised by the reason you give for not being surprised that we are surprised.

[Grey Fox]

Must be cultural. I might hate cursive but my hand writing in an hybrid mess of cursive & block. I could never write only in Block.

And there is no one you know of who eschews cursive?  I am astonished.  I have known non-cursive-users in every country I have lived in or visited for any length of time.

I am not so surprised that Canadians use cursive.  I am surprised that they didn't even realize that there are people who don't.

Adults? Not really, not anyone I can recall. I'll have to investigate.

Maybe my sister, I haven't seen her handwriting in years. However she left school in grade 8.

Also, I don't know if they still require cursive in Quebec schools after grade 2. I'll have to investigate that too.

Sometimes, even us are a bunch of provincials, it's not the exclusive domain of Tyr.

[ulmont]

Every time I see this thread I expect it to be about the Atlanta public school cheating scandal.

[HVC]

Maybe my sister, I haven't seen her handwriting in years. However she left school in grade 8.

is that even legal?

[grumbler]

Adults? Not really, not anyone I can recall. I'll have to investigate.

Maybe my sister, I haven't seen her handwriting in years. However she left school in grade 8.

Also, I don't know if they still require cursive in Quebec schools after grade 2. I'll have to investigate that too.

Sometimes, even us are a bunch of provincials, it's not the exclusive domain of Tyr.

Nothing provincial about it, per se.  It would be natural that you would assume other people are like you, unless they demonstrate that they are different.  I am just surprised that I knew more about Canadian use of block letters for writing than BB and you did.  That says nothing more than it says about either you guys or me.

[Grey Fox]

Maybe my sister, I haven't seen her handwriting in years. However she left school in grade 8.

is that even legal?

Don't think so, no. She probably regrets it deeply too. She's 25 now & still miling on her high school diploma.

[HVC]

Maybe my sister, I haven't seen her handwriting in years. However she left school in grade 8.

is that even legal?

Don't think so, no. She probably regrets it deeply too. She's 25 now & still miling on her high school diploma.

is she hot at least? the could go a long way

[Grey Fox]

Maybe my sister, I haven't seen her handwriting in years. However she left school in grade 8.

is that even legal?

Don't think so, no. She probably regrets it deeply too. She's 25 now & still miling on her high school diploma.

is she hot at least? the could go a long way

Yes. Well she was, I haven't seen her in a couple of years too. I'm a bad brother.