Perhaps you have heard the news?
Cursive is dead.
Maybe you could care less. Perhaps even loathed having to trudge through cursive lessons in grade school.
Well, I care. A lot.
I make it a point to write in cursive, in fact I actually never thought twice about it until recently when I learned through Time Magazine that youngsters are no longer taught cursive in school.
Chalk it up to the Internet, of which I have a love/hate thing going on.
The Internet has single handily killed our ability to spell (thanks a lot spell check) and has created a new (and catastrophic) language for a new generation. Soon our elders will need dictionaries just to decode Internet speak and text messaging...
So here is one last plea for the life of cursive.
Cursive is a beautiful, romantic reminder to who we are, where we have come and how charming writing REAL letters can be.
For as long as I'm around I will make it a point to keep cursive around.
Rest in peace my friend.
Alright, I will step off my soapbox. Goodnight folks.
1 comment:
What? No cursive? I don't really write in it very much but I do think it is very pretty and also fun to write that way. Getting rid of it is quite depressing. As an English major I have a lot of respect for words and writing and it seems sad that for many young people that might not be the case.
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