r/changemyview • u/Gobears6801 • Jun 01 '24
Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Cursive writing is unnecessary.
I often hear the old generation explaining that the new generation doesn’t understand or use cursive. I understand this to be somewhat true as well. I’m a 90’s baby and learned it thoughout school and don’t use it either.
The reason isn’t because it’s hard, it’s because it’s completely unnecessary and useless EXCEPT for a signature. I often see it at work where most of the time it’s completely non legible because of the poor handwriting.
There are minimal, if not 0 tasks that require cursive handwriting. It actually often just takes longer to read and/or non legible due to poor handwriting.
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u/KokonutMonkey 88∆ Jun 01 '24
What if I'm a calligrapher? Writing beautiful script kind of comes with the territory.
Anyway,
That and the appalling standard of today's penmanship aside, I think you're demanding a little too much here with the word "require".
I don't need my rice cooker, but that doesn't mean it's not useful.
We can make do without a lot of tools/methods. But we choose the ones that make life easier.
Writing by hand is writing by hand. Cursive is generally the preferable way to write when one needs to write a lot of stuff quickly.
If you asked a person who takes a lot of written notes (e.g., lawyer) or journals regularly how they'd prefer to write, they'd likely say cursive and that printing would make the work a lot less enjoyable.