It’s a horrible irony that my cursive looks great, but my printing looks like a drunk baby taking a piss while being smacked around by his demented uncle Cole.
cursive is a getting to me a MORE interesting skill, since fewer people can do it. I am rooting for its decline so that I will be one of the few who can still pull it off. Unless you have a capitol ‘S’ in your name.
This year it has been taken off all school curriculum. It needs to be replaced with 10 finger keyboarding skills since 1) all students will be required to test via a computer of some sort, and 2) most students already computer literate type with one finger/stylus or with their thumbs only.
you know I have passed half my exams in life due to my bad cursive writing, my teachers couldn’t understand half of what I wrote and use to pass me just to be on safe side…
Cursive’s dying? Can someone please the headteacher of my niece and nephew’s primary school? She’s just started forcing it on all the children! (I agree with the typing skills being far more important these days.)
I’m guessing this teacher is also trying to outlaw dancing within city limits. You give your niece and nephew some glitter and tell them to slide into class tomorrow, throw it in the air, and shout: “Let’s dance!” Then they should dance their fool heads off until the principal is called in.
It’s probably a good thing that I never had children, because I would probably follow this advice. It would be interesting to watch the principal’s face as I told him, “But an online cartoonist told me to have my child do that!”
North Carolina recently passed a law requiring cursive be taught in elementary schools. Because some politician in Raleigh read on a blog that cursive was dying and was all “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!”
If cursive dies out then how are future generations supposed to read a few important documents? Namely the ‘Declaration of Independence’ and ‘Constitution’?
To me, cursive is only useful in signatures since it’s harder to forge.
It annoys me to no end that, in earlier grades, we were taught cursive because they believed nothing else would be accepted in college. Now we’re in college and they want everything typed in Times New Roman.
My cursive signature was so illegible that it was often questioned, and I started scrawling in print instead. It’s still illegible, but nobody cares anymore, especially on those electronic credit-card boxes.
But if you want to sign something with a flourish, it has to be in cursive!
In Finland we learn a completely different type of cursive that looks nothing like what those Q or Z in the last panel look like…
The cursive they teach us is mostly recognazible to those who don’t know it as it resembles “normal” writing a lot. The biggest difference with it is the letter s, which looks like a Moomin character’s head.
I was forced to learn cursive in elementary school, and some day just thought “what the hell is this?” and just stopped, and at that point, nobody ever cared or complained. Most people I know don’t use it either. (Well, I do have one friend who uses it.)
Adam, you do realise dozens of people will wish you a “fludy bortsnip” on your next birthday?
The thought had occurred to me. What’s worse is that I never my strips so I’ll be totally confused when it happens. I’ll probably assume that everyone suffered the same kind of stroke.
There were two subjects in elementary thatI refused to believe would ever be necessary for me to know: Cursive and the Metric system.
While it seems I was right on both counts (given that I’m not a STEM student), I do recant my earlier refusal to learn metric, since I do think that it should just become the world’s primary measurement system everywhere (as opposed to everywhere but for a handful-ish of countries).
I write in cursive, weird Q’s and Z’s included. I find it natural, but I get comments on my handwriting about once a week. I’ve been told it’s surprisingly legible.
I CAN write quite legibly in cursive (born in the late 50s), but don’t. No one can read it except old goats like myself, so…I took typing (not keyboarding, not in the mid-70s anyways) in 10th grade and fell right back into it when computers became all the rage.
I do a respectful 35 wpm…
Adam, creating nonsense words is its own unique art, and I do believe you are a grand master of it. Everything about “Fludy Bortsnip” makes it an amazing set of not-words, from the look to (what I assume is) the pronunciation.
Do they still make students write in cursive on the SATs? I remember before the test you had to write something about promising not to cheat in cursive. I was so slow that by the time I finished writing everyone was looking at me :(.
True story: When I was in elementary school, the teacher said that we’re too dumb to ever learn how to write a cursive x, so we should just do a half-assed print/cursive hybrid.
Since “half-assed print/cursive hybrid” describes my handwriting perfectly these days, I think she was right.
Ah, but you’re all forgetting one distinct advantage that cursive has: You don’t have to lift your pen off the paper anywhere near as much. It’s an excellent writing style for the perpetually lazy.
Curse all of those ours spent in school writing the same stupid cursive letter over and over until you fill an entire page, and do the same with every goddamn letter in the alphabet and whatever other squiggle they throw at you until your wrist burns out.
FIR- Wait, no. Almost forgot. I’m not an idiot who cares about that.
On topic, I have never been very apt with cursive, and can write it- but not read it. Strange? Yes.
THANK YOU! I thought i was the only person celebrating the slow demise of cursive.
It’s a horrible irony that my cursive looks great, but my printing looks like a drunk baby taking a piss while being smacked around by his demented uncle Cole.
Best. Simile. EVER.
I like “Faster than a Cheetah on crack.”
Same here.
I still recall the comment in school: “It looks like an intoxicated chicken walked across it.”
I had spider…
And Hebrew.
That was from a Jewish teacher too…
cursive is a getting to me a MORE interesting skill, since fewer people can do it. I am rooting for its decline so that I will be one of the few who can still pull it off. Unless you have a capitol ‘S’ in your name.
At my school the never thought us capital cursives, we had printing capitals with lower case cursives
And yet, the hipsters will probably keep cursive alive.
At least until it’s hip to do so – then it will truly die.
This year it has been taken off all school curriculum. It needs to be replaced with 10 finger keyboarding skills since 1) all students will be required to test via a computer of some sort, and 2) most students already computer literate type with one finger/stylus or with their thumbs only.
you know I have passed half my exams in life due to my bad cursive writing, my teachers couldn’t understand half of what I wrote and use to pass me just to be on safe side…
You still won’t be able to read your doctor’s handwriting.
Capital E. I can’t do a Capital E in cursive.
. . . It’s just a backwards 3.
Cursive’s dying? Can someone please the headteacher of my niece and nephew’s primary school? She’s just started forcing it on all the children! (I agree with the typing skills being far more important these days.)
I’m guessing this teacher is also trying to outlaw dancing within city limits. You give your niece and nephew some glitter and tell them to slide into class tomorrow, throw it in the air, and shout: “Let’s dance!” Then they should dance their fool heads off until the principal is called in.
It’s probably a good thing that I never had children, because I would probably follow this advice. It would be interesting to watch the principal’s face as I told him, “But an online cartoonist told me to have my child do that!”
*LIKE*
North Carolina recently passed a law requiring cursive be taught in elementary schools. Because some politician in Raleigh read on a blog that cursive was dying and was all “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!”
If cursive dies out then how are future generations supposed to read a few important documents? Namely the ‘Declaration of Independence’ and ‘Constitution’?
We have transcriptions. Reading the original is nothing special. Also, if you WANT to, you can learn cursive on your own.
What about when the machines rise up and delete all transcripts?
At that point, I think that reading cursive will be the LEAST of our worries.
Sorry, but I’m not okay with letting someone ELSE tell me what my rights are.
The NSA and the rest of the government is busy making those documents irrelevant anyhow.
I know cursive and I can barely read any of that. It’s basically a different script.
No, it’s something racist in the language of Mordor, written in Elvish script.
“Something Racist in Elvish” is a great LARP band name.
You know, that’s like the millionth time someone has called one of this comic’s quotes a good band name.
Or the billionth time anything has been called a good band name.
To me, cursive is only useful in signatures since it’s harder to forge.
It annoys me to no end that, in earlier grades, we were taught cursive because they believed nothing else would be accepted in college. Now we’re in college and they want everything typed in Times New Roman.
My cursive signature was so illegible that it was often questioned, and I started scrawling in print instead. It’s still illegible, but nobody cares anymore, especially on those electronic credit-card boxes.
But if you want to sign something with a flourish, it has to be in cursive!
I love the first panel.
Way back in elementary school, I was out sick when we learned upper case cursive As. To this day, I can’t write them.
Oh, and cursive is useless for my signature. I sign it differently every time.
In Finland we learn a completely different type of cursive that looks nothing like what those Q or Z in the last panel look like…
The cursive they teach us is mostly recognazible to those who don’t know it as it resembles “normal” writing a lot. The biggest difference with it is the letter s, which looks like a Moomin character’s head.
I was forced to learn cursive in elementary school, and some day just thought “what the hell is this?” and just stopped, and at that point, nobody ever cared or complained. Most people I know don’t use it either. (Well, I do have one friend who uses it.)
Adam, you do realise dozens of people will wish you a “fludy bortsnip” on your next birthday?
The thought had occurred to me. What’s worse is that I never my strips so I’ll be totally confused when it happens. I’ll probably assume that everyone suffered the same kind of stroke.
You forgot remember.
*runs away sniggering*
There were two subjects in elementary thatI refused to believe would ever be necessary for me to know: Cursive and the Metric system.
While it seems I was right on both counts (given that I’m not a STEM student), I do recant my earlier refusal to learn metric, since I do think that it should just become the world’s primary measurement system everywhere (as opposed to everywhere but for a handful-ish of countries).
I write in cursive, weird Q’s and Z’s included. I find it natural, but I get comments on my handwriting about once a week. I’ve been told it’s surprisingly legible.
I CAN write quite legibly in cursive (born in the late 50s), but don’t. No one can read it except old goats like myself, so…I took typing (not keyboarding, not in the mid-70s anyways) in 10th grade and fell right back into it when computers became all the rage.
I do a respectful 35 wpm…
OMG. I LOL’d on the inside when it said “…and something racist in Elvish?” Wait. No, that says the F word in Elvish.
Adam, creating nonsense words is its own unique art, and I do believe you are a grand master of it. Everything about “Fludy Bortsnip” makes it an amazing set of not-words, from the look to (what I assume is) the pronunciation.
Do you teach classes?
No, but what a great idea. I could be like Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver – except swap math for gibberish.
Do they still make students write in cursive on the SATs? I remember before the test you had to write something about promising not to cheat in cursive. I was so slow that by the time I finished writing everyone was looking at me :(.
This whole comic was A+!
Thanks!
Oh my gosh, this is THE BEST THING
and totally one of my favorites so far.
Something racist in Elvish… beautiful.
Thanks!
True story: When I was in elementary school, the teacher said that we’re too dumb to ever learn how to write a cursive x, so we should just do a half-assed print/cursive hybrid.
Since “half-assed print/cursive hybrid” describes my handwriting perfectly these days, I think she was right.
Ah, but you’re all forgetting one distinct advantage that cursive has: You don’t have to lift your pen off the paper anywhere near as much. It’s an excellent writing style for the perpetually lazy.
You lost me at Fludy Bortsnip. :’D
Curse all of those ours spent in school writing the same stupid cursive letter over and over until you fill an entire page, and do the same with every goddamn letter in the alphabet and whatever other squiggle they throw at you until your wrist burns out.