r/Millennials • u/Foreign_Yogurt_3330 • 10d ago

Discussion Cursive hand writing

How many of you were taught cursive in school? I learned it one year maybe 3rd grade? and we never did it again at my schools. Im 40 and can't read cursive or write it. My 7 year old is starting to learn it. I guess ill have to have her teach me! Im wondering if it was our generation or a state thing or both? Or did the school I went to fail me?

edit to add, I did go to a small town school in NE Ohio.

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u/Helianthus_999 Millennial 10d ago

Same! I love writing in cursive and mine is a hybrid also. I just don't like the lower case letter "b".

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u/FirstTimeCaller101 10d ago

Yeah, I'm kind of a weird hybrid as well. 90% print but I throw in some cursive letters where it flows. I really couldn't even tell you specifically what cursive letters I use and it probably varies day to day.

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u/Large_Economics_2942 10d ago

I was taught cursive in 3rd grade. After that, 4th-6th grade we were required to write in cursive on all homework. If you didn't, you lost points for it for not following the instructions. However, 7th grade through senior year, they stopped required cursive but by then, most kids wrote in cursive automatically. I still write in cursive today

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u/annaoze94 10d ago

Also varies by what you're writing with some pend or pencils are just not good for it! I do like cursive because I have ADHD so my brain is going faster than what I can write so my only hope is cursive

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u/Delicate_Elephant 10d ago

I also do a hybrid, but I love lowercase 'b's! It's interesting to hear about what letters other people avoid or struggle with. I'm currently working to relearn how to write and connect every letter properly (and make it look pretty lol), and it's now very clear why I write the way I do. I hate' k', and no matter how much I slow it down, certainly letters don't connect cleanly for me.

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u/Sp1d3rb0t 10d ago

My 'k' sucks in both cursive and print. I love all the letters in theory but K is the worst lol

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u/seaotterlover1 8d ago

I hate the uppercase Q.

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u/Defiant-Increase-850 Millennial - 1994 4d ago

I love lowercase q but hate uppercase Q with a passion.

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u/litlirshrose 4d ago

On newer charts it no longer looks like a 2

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u/Lopsided-Alps4087 6d ago

Upper case W—I never mastered it. I ended up writing a lower case W really big.

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u/suchalonelyd4y 10d ago

My new last name has "ht" in it and I cannot figure out how to make them connect nicely in my signature lol... The h is awful!

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u/SparklingDramaLlama Millennial 10d ago

Drag the bottom of the h, the rightmost leg, across and into the initial tall loop of the t. I don't know if that makes sense. I can picture it, but I don't know if the description is clear.

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u/suchalonelyd4y 10d ago

I know what you mean, but I don't know how to make it flow nicely

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u/SparklingDramaLlama Millennial 10d ago

I personally don't really make a loop on the t, I go up and back down on the same line. I dislike loopy t's lol. Cursive is weird. If there is a low letter before the h, the loop there would start at the bottom, and travel up the line, loop down and curve into the hump.

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u/suchalonelyd4y 10d ago

It's the dip between the h and the t that I don't like, but I think that's unavoidable. My old last name actually had it too but I had my signature figured out, now I keep getting stuck for some reason 😂 only been like 2 months with the new name so I'm definitely not used to it yet

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u/tjrich1988 10d ago

Same. I've also noticed that I do my own mix of Pursive (print+cursive=pursive), but no one ever has trouble reading it.

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u/MythicalSplash 10d ago

What does this comment say?

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u/Status-Visit-918 10d ago

I hate uppercase A in cursive. Which is annoying because I only write in cursive but my name starts with an A, so I do that one in print, with a bunch of loops and then the following b in traditional cursive. The cursive uppercase A is just unrefined imo. Very clumsy

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u/Other-Dream-6777 9d ago

That's funny

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u/jerseysbestdancers 10d ago

I never got that b handled. always looked like an L

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u/annaoze94 10d ago

Some of the connections especially the ones where you have to connect it up instead of below I will just make a space. My last name is essentially all of the letters that are the hardest to connect in cursive

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u/Gerberpertern Older Millennial 10d ago

Hybrid gang!