I had a nightmare Friday night, where (for some unknown reason) I was terribly agitated because I had forgotten how to write (in proper cursive) a small "v". I was upset enough to wake myself out of the dream, only to find, much to my in-the-darkness chagrin, that I really had forgotten some of the cursive characters.
So here's a quiz for you. Get yourself some pen and paper, and write (in proper cursive, of course) the following :
a capital "F" (or "T", they're pretty much the same)
a capital "I"
a small "v"
a small "x" (this also gave me fits that night)
a capital "Q" (yeah, good luck with that)
And for extra credit, write down an alternative capital F/T, that I also had to learn back then, using something that I only now know to be "Palmer script".
We'll post both scripts in a day or two. But the point is this - Language evolves. Both the written and the spoken. No one uses cursive nowadays, except maybe to sign one's name. And even then, the signature is usually a melange of printing and cursive.
So RIP, cursive. You're obsolete, and it's NBD. I,. for one, won't miss you at all.
2 comments:
Hrmm...I got them all but the 'Q', but only because it's different than the way I learned it. The version they taught us didn't leave the opening on the side, you made a clockwise 'O' and then came across the bottom with the flourish. Weird, it even evolved back then when people were still teaching it. I enjoyed it as a kid, but I can see the logic behind not continuing. To each their own I guess.
Heh. Now that you mention it, I remember that "Q" too. It was just a capital "O" with a squiggly in it.
Dawn says they still teach cursive. In 4th or 5th grade. So your kidlets will experience handwriting Nirvana. Or not.
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