random poll

[rm]

Super busy. Am suddenly curious about this. Apparently most kids entering college in the US this year don't know how to write in cursive. I suspect this is less a sign of the apocalypse than it feels like to me.

So, tell me things (as usual, poll is un-scientific and reflects my biases and experiences (and 49-year-olds can choose which age category they like better!) -- if the boxes don't work, my apologies and comments super welcome.):

[Poll #1607173]

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[chicleeblair.livejournal.com]

Oh god Deneelian style fucked up my writing for YEARS when I learned it in Kindergarten. I switch schools, learned how to print in first grade, and then skipped a grade and had to learn cursive in third grade (a year later)

I couldn't write legibly until I was twelve and taught myself.

[gement.livejournal.com]

I lucked out somehow; for me the fusion was a useful and productive look at the underlying logic of letter shapes. The result is that I do something pretty smooth that looks mostly like standard printing, but with little serifs from the Deneelian that increase legibility on things like distinguishing an I from an l.

I also had a head start on the cursive, since that's what Deneelian is pushing toward. Most of the kids were completely blindsided by the brand new loop in their letter k.