Remember, too: whatever your teacher may have been told, cursive signatures have no special legal validity over signatures written in any other way. (Don't take my word for this: talk to any attorney.)
Handwriting matters ... But does cursive? Research shows: the fastest, clearest handwriters avoid cursive. They join some letters, not all: making the easiest joins, skipping the rest, using print-like shapes for those letters whose cursive and printed shapes disagree. Reading cursive still matters -- this takes just 30 to 60 minutes to learn, and can be taught to a 5- or 6-year-old if the child knows how to read. The value of reading cursive is therefore no mandate to write it.
@digitaldown If that's the case, I'm guessing that you are not well educated. How can succeed in university exams and courses without being able to write cursively?
Americans for one are too lethargic to change from QWERTY to Dvorak, or from Standard to Metric, or English to Esperanto. Even if it is feasable, then I think this will not be happening very soon.
Actually americans are on their way to hieroglyphics, and a separate classes of peasants, scribes and elites. The bar code is rhetorical. Not that hard when you consider Chinese and so many strokes and nuances.
Americans will trust barcode because the "machine" says so. Pathetic really. Apathy and the relinquishing of thought. sad...
Interesting concept. The main problem that I see is readability and legibility, is it possible for anyone to easily read a whole book full of pages of barcode?
Another problem would be... How many strokes does it take to make a letter?,(since you did not show a close up of the barcode alphabet, I could not see that.) If it takes several more strokes than letters do, then it may not be practical for a writing substitute.
Remember, too: whatever your teacher may have been told, cursive signatures have no special legal validity over signatures written in any other way. (Don't take my word for this: talk to any attorney.)
KateGladstone 5 months ago
Handwriting matters ... But does cursive? Research shows: the fastest, clearest handwriters avoid cursive. They join some letters, not all: making the easiest joins, skipping the rest, using print-like shapes for those letters whose cursive and printed shapes disagree. Reading cursive still matters -- this takes just 30 to 60 minutes to learn, and can be taught to a 5- or 6-year-old if the child knows how to read. The value of reading cursive is therefore no mandate to write it.
KateGladstone 5 months ago
Check out the video Anyone Can Improve Their Own Handwriting by jasonmarke
jasonmarke 1 year ago
Buy a tripod!!!
sudislavi 1 year ago
Graphology is pseudoscience..
Devourer09 1 year ago
i never write in cursive. Never ever ever.
digitaldown 1 year ago
@digitaldown If that's the case, I'm guessing that you are not well educated. How can succeed in university exams and courses without being able to write cursively?
ZachClooney 1 year ago
@ZachClooney
R u retarded? or has it been one hundred years since you've been in shcool? there's no requirement for writing cursive in any college.
digitaldown 1 year ago
there is cursive for the numbers
this foo is retarded.
eatfats 2 years ago
@eatfats
Writing a digit with a right slant is not cursive. Spelling it out is not numeric. But that is
American. Perhaps other cultures have cursive integers ?
tenagliac 2 years ago
Americans for one are too lethargic to change from QWERTY to Dvorak, or from Standard to Metric, or English to Esperanto. Even if it is feasable, then I think this will not be happening very soon.
billdakelski 2 years ago
Actually americans are on their way to hieroglyphics, and a separate classes of peasants, scribes and elites. The bar code is rhetorical. Not that hard when you consider Chinese and so many strokes and nuances.
Americans will trust barcode because the "machine" says so. Pathetic really. Apathy and the relinquishing of thought. sad...
tenagliac 2 years ago
Interesting concept. The main problem that I see is readability and legibility, is it possible for anyone to easily read a whole book full of pages of barcode?
Another problem would be... How many strokes does it take to make a letter?,(since you did not show a close up of the barcode alphabet, I could not see that.) If it takes several more strokes than letters do, then it may not be practical for a writing substitute.
billdakelski 2 years ago
FYI: There are several different barcode dialects. The one I show in this video is called "3 of 9".
tenagliac 2 years ago