Cursive a Dying art

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

http://http:www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/09/national/main557572.shtml

I saw this article on /. and was sucked into reading it by my own morbid curiosity.
Is cursive dead? If so, is it a good thing. I dont know about you but I have always found cursive to be easy to write and very hard to read. The new Italic style of writing is something that I have naturally gravitated to over the years. Its a kind of half cursive, sacrificing some speed for the readability of print.
I remember doing cursive in school and how tedious and painful it was especially when all my teachers instisted on typed papers and projects.  About the only time anyone I know writes cursive is to sign their names on a check or contract.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

We should all be using computers anyway. Who WRITES? Oh wait, a lot of my customers. Who all use cursive. I don't think it's dead. Or close to it.

[Lieutenant Kije]

Whether or not it should, cursive will not die until that half of all 4th grade teachers who insist on it (for character reasons or something like that, (meaning it builds it)) die or retire.

[42]

well that shouldn't be too long, considering the average age of fourth-grade teachers is like 60. Course, it's the first and second grade teachers that teach handwriting now days. They're the real threat.

[Fellfrosch]

Mexico stopped teaching cursive in school a couple of generations ago, meaning that the only people who know it are very old...meaning that even though my handwriting is terrible, during the time I lived in Mexico everybody thought it was very elegant and venerable simply because of the association.

[Mr_Pleasington]

While I wouldn't like to see cursive completely die out, I haven't used it since high school.  Printing is so much easier for me.  Plus, my cursive is illegible.  

Take that, cursive!

[42]

People tell me that I have very nice cursive, they just aren't used to reading it. Mine is ledgible, I assume that is why they think it is nice.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Oh. well, if Mexico stopped using it, then it MUST be dying.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

So how much is a good amount of gatorade to drink in an hour and 22 minutes? It wouldn't happen to be 64 fl. oz. would it?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I dont know, and don't really care since this thread is about cursive and not gatorade, which incedentally has come a long way since the university of florida.

[Fellfrosch]

And as you well know, Gatorade developed a new line in the mid-90s called Gatorade Freeze.

Oops, sorry, I thought we were doing maid and butler dialogue.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Less succesful was Gatorade Gum, which while it tasted remarkably like Gatoraide actually served to dehydrate they chewer.

[EUOL]

The sports drink most popular in Korea is called "Pokari Sweat." Never had the courage to try it...

[Spriggan]

Ya Pokari is a drink from Japan, it's not bad.

[stacer]

Back to cursive, I still use it. Though I don't like the way cursive S's look, so I kind of italicize mine.