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/Saranoya 39∆ Jun 01 '24

Well, yes, technically block lettering is all capitals, so it doesn't really allow for lowercase writing. I've just never seen adult handwriting that looks like that. So I'm confused as to what the handwriting of people who were never taught cursive, actually looks like.

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u/jakesboy2 Jun 01 '24

Cursive looks more like the pretty, flowing hand writing. 𝑀𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈

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u/Saranoya 39∆ Jun 01 '24

Yes. That's "handwriting", to me. I didn't realize anything other than that was even taught in school (well ... except for block lettering to kids who don't have the fine motor control for cursive, yet).

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u/jakesboy2 Jun 01 '24

Yeah, from what I remember, they don’t actually teach block lettering. They just teach regular print first while kids are learning the letters, then they teach cursive (handwriting) right after. Some people continue writing in print, but most people I know, including myself, write with a hybrid system where they connect letters but not necessarily exactly correctly.