It just makes other people’s writing harder to read. And do you really save that much time writing cursive vs in print? Like a few seconds at most. But a lot of us are taught cursive early in our lives. Why?
Fyi; this is a question about the practically of cursive, not calligraphy itself. I know a lot of cursive writing can be very pretty and readable, but most people don’t write like that
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I work in Title review. This field is used for things like buying a house, oil and gas rights, coal, other natural resources and a lot of other applications. Part of what a title attorney or abstraction does is read very old deeds and other legal documents. Nearly all of which prior to 1920 is handwritten in cursive. Additionally many of the US most important documents such as the constitution and Declaration of Independence are in cursive. I assume many other countries have similar historical documents.
Essentially, we will lose a large part of our history if no one can read cursive. A lot of people, including me, use it everyday for employment.
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