#plus writing w ur wrist/fingers is never as efficient as writing in practiced muscular movement

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It’s worth noting also that cursive isn’t actually slower than print handwriting - or, at least, the way it used to be taught wasn’t. Palmer method or similar styles that were taught in a specific way and used muscular movement (moving from the arm, not the wrist or fingers) are not only faster than print but much less tiring on your hand. It’s optimised for speed and consistency, and when you handwrite everything that way every day for years and years, you get very, very fast.

That’s why the switch to dnealian was frankly a death knell for cursive: it wasn’t optimised for speed in the same way, and it wasn’t taught in an intuitive way (and it was ugly lol).

If you were taught zaner-bloser or some other similar form of cursive, and liked the look but found it too slow/tiring/etc, I highly recommend learning Palmer method :)

And yes, it does add a little bit of happiness to life and beauty to the mundane.

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On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.

On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.

And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.

Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?

Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting