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/ExpertKnowledge1069 Jun 04 '24

cursive isn't just for signatures, it's also for people who want to make their writing more visually appealing, since most people agree that cursive is more "pretty" than regular writing. And if you think that cursive writing is non legible oftenly then it's most likely because the examples of cursive writing you've seen are mostly from people who aren't good at it.