The Future of Penmanship

There has been talk of phasing out cursive writing, penmanship. But is there a role for cursive writing. Some will argue it's harder to learn. Others might argue that it is an indispensible tool for authentication and transactions. Sign on the dotted line.

Some say you can determine personality from writing. Then there is a question. If personality influences writing, does writing feed back the other way to influence personality ? This was one thought behind the sample of PTP writing at the end of this video.

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• writing
• cursive
• barcode

[eatfats]

there is cursive for the numbers

this foo is retarded.

[tenagliac]

@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 ?

[billdakelski]

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.

[tenagliac]

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]

FYI: There are several different barcode dialects. The one I show in this video is called "3 of 9".

[KateGladstone]

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]

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.

[jasonmarke]

Check out the video Anyone Can Improve Their Own Handwriting by jasonmarke

[sudislavi]

Buy a tripod!!!

[digitaldown]

@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.

[ZachClooney]

@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?

[Devourer09]

Graphology is pseudoscience..

[digitaldown]

i never write in cursive. Never ever ever.