How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

Re:How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive by kevindong on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:53AM (#18469908)

Personally I hated learning cursive and writing cursive in school in the mid 2000s. What's the point? For me, it took more time to write in than normal handwriting. Even the "good" cursive handwriting was overly ornate which actually made it harder to read. Bad cursive handwriting is just outright unreadable.

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Re:How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive by eigenstuff on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:06PM (#18469996)

I spontaneously starting writing in cursive in my 8th grade math class one day and never turned back. I can write extremely fast, having written in cursive exclusively for 15 years. I have no idea how quickly I wrote when I started off, but I was probably pretty slow. It's definitely something to get used to, you can't expect to write lightning fast overnight, but isn't that true of most things?

Now my problem is, whenever a form says "please print," it morphs into cursive halfway through...

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Re:How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive by Doxin on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:42AM (#18485975)

> For me, it took more time to write in than normal handwriting.

This is generally true when using anything other than a fountain pen. A fountain pen has a much lower friction with the paper which makes lifting your pen a bigger hassle compared to with a ballpoint.

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