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John Turney said:
When signing your name, it doesn't have to be readable, just distinctive. I recall a test in Reader's Digest years ago where you had to guess which signature went with which famous person. I got Eisenhower and Khrushchev backwards. I have a tenant who's signature looks nothing like his name or anything else. When I was on active duty I has to sign watch logs so often, my signature lost a lot of detail.

In high school one of the "shop" classes I took was drafting. There block letters are used, and I never went back. When I had my first civilian job after the Navy, our reports were typed by a secretary from our hand written text. She commented to me that mine was the only writing she could easily read.
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True. If I hadn't seen him holding it up I would never guess Trump's signature as him. But I've seen stuff "signed" by young folk where it isn't the same from signature to signature, which could be a problem for verification. I think learning cursive is as much about learning to do the same thing the same way across different papers so that you can look at checks or legal documents and be able to say the same person yes or no because of the resemblance across them all. My signature isn't 100% the same but the distinctive things like the capitol M, L and P are close enough to the same and the lower case match fairly closely too.
 
bobhustead said:
I have been writing in all caps block letters for perhaps 65 years. Never could get legible cursive and SERIOUSLY resented the supposedly remedial drills. My all caps block writing is not too good either. My practice regularly involved writing long briefs and memoranda. My secretaries often went to my wife for assistance in translation.
Bob
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My wife’s handwriting is so bad even she can’t read it.
 
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As a teacher, I wish that they taught cursive. Writing in block takes too long. When I lecture (whether it is middle school, high school or college) I keep having students tell me to wait while they write something down. I can only cover 1/2 to 2/3 of what I should be able to do. Maybe this is part of the reason so many students do not perform at grade level.
 
I'm glad we won WW2 - for many reasons! If not, we might all be forced to use German cursive of the era.

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Yikes!
 
maynard said:
As a teacher, I wish that they taught cursive. Writing in block takes too long. When I lecture (whether it is middle school, high school or college) I keep having students tell me to wait while they write something down. I can only cover 1/2 to 2/3 of what I should be able to do. Maybe this is part of the reason so many students do not perform at grade level.
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When I was a kid in school I wrote notes in cursive and used abbreviations to keep up, nit hard once you get used to it. I do use block printing but generally on on addressing things so it is easier if other folks and machines need to read. And when I was young, teachers didn't stop for us to catch up doing notes, you either figured out how to or fell behind and quietly collaborated with fellow students to figure out what you missed when in study hall or after school.
 
Mike - that reminded me of how I took notes in high school and college, 1966-1970. I used a "shorthand for dummies" called ShortRite. Basically the standard cursive alphabet, with some cool modifications. When we had a test scheduled, I'd review my notes by transcribing my "shorthand" back into regular writing.

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I mostly used things I made up, didn't have access to know about books and such that talked about that sort of thing being in a small farming community. So if w/o could be without, then w/ was with for example. I also had a maternal grandmother who had taught high school from the 1930s to the end of the 1960s when she retired, who also had expectations for us and hints as to what might help.
 
One cursive stroke down to the bottom blue line, one cursive loop across the red line, one cursive stroke up to the top blue line, one more cursive loop above the blue line, one final cursive stroke down to the bottom blue line!

Now you have it! You're loopy and cursed!

OK - back to my acursed cave.
TM
 
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