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Not being able to read cursive to the point where someone else must decipher it for you is pitiful, even if you didn't learn it in school. It's not really very different than manuscript, and is for the most part very intuitive. If I had someone working under me who couldn't decipher cursive script, I'd be concerned about their capacity for any real intellectual processing.
Not being able to read cursive to the point where someone else must decipher it for you is pitiful, even if you didn't learn it in school. It's not really very different than manuscript, and is for the most part very intuitive. If I had someone working under me who couldn't decipher cursive script, I'd be concerned about their capacity for any real intellectual processing.
That's exactly what I think. The letters look too much like their printed counterparts for it to be impossible to read. Legibility might be the issue, not that it is cursive.
There used to be a computer font that was cursive letters too. Not sure what it was called though. Sad to know that this form of writing is on it's way out the door.
Not being able to read cursive to the point where someone else must decipher it for you is pitiful, even if you didn't learn it in school. It's not really very different than manuscript, and is for the most part very intuitive. If I had someone working under me who couldn't decipher cursive script, I'd be concerned about their capacity for any real intellectual processing.
Thank you - these 2 interns don't read or attempt to read cursive. It is something they have never been exposed to- it isn't due to being unable to read my cursive-they don't read cursive and neither attempted.
Maybe, but I don't think so- in his line of work his computer would broken on a weekly basis. He might be walking in a foot of mud- he might be standing in pouring down rain, etc. He would love to be able to input everything right into the computer, but at his job sites it is just not feasible. If he drops the paper or it gets wet, he just needs to redo it- not get a new computer, If he is inspecting a site that is safe to input right into the computer, of course he does- but most of the time it isn't possible.
And as I mentioned- the 2 schools I work in- everything isn't done by computer. Off the top of my head I am thinking about the announcements put on the TV station everyday- most of the teachers stop by the TV station room in the AM - handwrite a note and a student inputs the info. into the computer to be broadcast.
I looked at the timesheets she needed to hand in- I had to signoff on it as well as the student- she printed her signature.
I see peoples point of view, but still not convinced because I know of many reasons people may write things out rather than use the computer!
Sure people write things out, but it doesn't have to be in cursive.....
I teach in a college and unfortunately, most of the work is still done by hand (I really wish the students would type, but we don't have in-class computers yet and not everyone has a laptop). Over the years I have gotten very good at deciphering bad cursive, but there is always one kid in every class whose writing I simply cannot read. Sometimes I have to ask them to please print (and sometimes they actually don't know how to do that!). My students are not American-born. Also, I never write anything in cursive because no one can read it. So I wonder if the issue isn't that they can't read cursive at all, but rather that they are not as good at deciphering sloppy cursive as those of us who grew up with it are. Perhaps the OP has particularly difficult cursive.
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