Can confirm. 
Old or educated? Or are those things the same nowadays?
Woo! Glad I still remembered how to write cursive. 
Sorry for the insult, folks. Clearly Iâm old, too.
I think thatâs true if you need youâre readers to make the out the text. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!
yes theyâre the same when speaking of Americans now haha. I learned cursive, now I can kind of read it, but not really write it very well. I personally donât see the point in it since typing is faster nowadays and thereâs AI programs dedicated to translating even other languages into English⌠mind less cursive to manuscript. meh
Congrats on the win, @Jennzilla ! What a fun and timely indictment of our reliance on technology. 
I learned âcursive italicâ in school when I was little, but then taught myself (or asked mom to teach me) enough normal cursive to sign my name. I can read it well (perhaps in part due to relatives who used it still), but would probably get stuck on certain letters trying to write itâŚ
This is very true. My mother kept writing letters to my brother in Costa Rica and he never got any until I told her to block print the address. Nobody reads cursive.
Kids are being dumbâd down to keep them under the thumb of government.
The people in power do not want you to read cursive. If you can not read cursive then you can not read history and therefor you can not get first hand knowledge of past events. If you can not read cursive then you have to rely on someone else to tell you their interpretation of history. When you do that then you can only get their agenda filtered version of history. Its like living your entire life only communicating through a translator. There are going to be a ton of things lost in translation.
Jenzilla, Iâm delighted that this design won the Derby. Congratulations! 
In all honestly, I am perplexed and saddened at the movement in education to toss cursive writing into the trash barrel. Itâs a faster way of writing, and develops fine motor skills, among other things. I hope ditching cursive writing is a fleeting phase that wonât last.
Wasnât faster for all of us.
When 80% of your writing is numeric/symbolic hen scratch is far faster and more legible.
I think cursive should be taught as a second language, right alongside Egyptian hieroglyphics.
It would be worth losing the internet to an EMP just to see the literal panic that would ensue afterwards, due to their laziness, arrogance and short sightedness.
To be fair, the USPS uses a machine to read the addresses on things. Unless it wasnât getting delivered because they couldnât read it in Costa Rica. shrugs
Also, how confused do you think some kids are when playing with the fonts in their word processor and finding a script font.
âWhoa. Look at this! Is this another language? I can read some of these letters but others are just squigglies. Itâs called âFrench Scriptâ. IS THIS AN AUTOMATIC TRANSLATOR?!â