• @bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml
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    292 days ago

    I would say “cursive is how adults write, you’ll need to know it”, but that wasn’t true then either.

    • @TheTurner@lemm.ee
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      32 days ago

      Cursive is such a bad way to write. I used to have to decipher sloppy cursive notes on how to check airplane fixtures. I even learned it in school!

      • @Jarix@lemmy.world
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        220 hours ago

        Good cursive flows very nicely. I got to watch my grandmother’s handwriting deteriorate as the dementia and Alzheimer’s took her. Was always amazed for well she wrote when i was younger, but her handwriting turned pretty incomprehensive as her brain was eaten away by the disease

    • @JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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      42 days ago

      “You need a pen licence because that’s what you use at work”.

      Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.

      Only schoolchildren used biros.