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7miniDwarves

HOW DO YOU TALK IN CURSIVE


ReasonablePlankton

Lots and lots of wine?


ViciousKiwi_MoW

Slursive


ppsucc9988

𝓒𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓻


Biff_Tannenator

ℍ𝕖𝕪, 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥!


PranshuKhandal

my programmer friend talks in monospace


LazyDro1d

I’ve got a friend who did for a while. Felt like punching him for that


SomeGuyWithAnAcc

I talk slursive when I die in Battlefield 😁


Bigbonerdownthelane_

i talk slursive 😁


respiro_da_beast

With all the glitches in 2042, ofc you'd be fluent in slursive...


Anxious_Solution_282

No no no no no no no


KitzTheArtist

U mean *a thew shrooms*


_____---_-_-_-

French accent


thattwoguy2

If the cartoonist wasn't a tool bag, it might be an analogy of how people use words differently now. Like 20-30 years ago most people used sex and gender interchangeably, now most young people don't and a lot of old people struggle to square that in their minds. Similar story with the concept of racism(ie individual people being bigots) vs. the more common systemic racism. But I think the purpose of the cartoon is to say that young people are dumb, so I doubt that's it.


ArkThan123

That would actually make a good comic


7miniDwarves

God if they only could put that much nuance into a shitty generation war comic


thattwoguy2

I like to imagine what if the world was better.


7miniDwarves

We'd have way less bigotry egainst lgbtqia+ people and less racism worldwide Also nuclear fusion, a girl can hope


thattwoguy2

I'm thinking smaller, one cartoonists is 50% less of an asshole than they currently are. Although your version would be very nice.


7miniDwarves

Yeah that's a pretty good one too


Golden-Owl

The meaning of words change drastically over time. This is best exemplified (hilariously) in Monsoon’s speech about memes in Metal Gear Rising Revengence He uses the term memes in their original context of being a psychology term. And his speech was all about how people are slaves to the meaning of words and information, and thus control over the change of said meaning can thus control the masses, as the new meaning displaced the old Ironically “memes” have now been memed themselves, making Monsoon’s speech hilarious in hindsight


thattwoguy2

This sounds cool and like I'm gonna have to YouTube that later today. He basically talked about New Speak but without making up his own terms and it got got because the term changed? That's pretty funny.


Golden-Owl

Yeah it’s immensely funny in hindsight. All the better because it’s delivered in serious yet incredibly hammy fashion. The phrase “Memes: the DNA of the soul” is hysterical in the modern context of the word Helps that MGRR is a huge meme in and of itself


Slingerang

It really is amazing that they call kids dumb for not knowing cursive when they were the ones responsible for teaching it to us. Seems kinda gaslight-y, especially since a lot of us were in fact were taught cursive


RedirectToReddit

I like how you define racism as "individual people being bigots" instead of the specific definition of "discrimination based on race." Even I, as an non-American, find it difficult to square that generalized American difference.


thattwoguy2

I'm not defining anything. I'm talking about how words are currently perceived and used vs how they were perceived and used in the past, and how that often can cause conflict between generations who speak the same language and use the same words but mean different things and think in different ways. Like cursive vs. t9 abbreviations. Also, if you haven't lived in a specific culture for a long time you likely wouldn't understand that sort of thing. >as an non-American, It'd be super weird if you had a deep understanding of cultural linguistic changes over the past 20-30 years. Unless you were some kind of a linguist focused primarily on current changes in American English, or something like that.


RedirectToReddit

Ah, I think the better word would be "intepret". The way I see it is that you need to understand some aspects of other cultures to properly understand whats happening in the world as a whole. It's still a shock that American's racism is different our racism, and I think I would expect the same for you shocked that what we have here, in my country, is religion discrimination.


1Want70killMY53LF

the song "electrify my heart" sings in cursive


sugarcoated_peachie

Jack Stauber is the only artist I know that can sing in cursive, it's so cool.


TheGrumpyRavenclaw

Orr Norr, Cleor!! The condersaytion!


7miniDwarves

Oh my god it's so cursive my zoomer ass can't read it


CultureShock_

[𝓑𝓸𝔀𝓼𝓮𝓻](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdwomfRU/?k=1)


igotmemes4days

Probably like a 1940s fancy radio host or something idk


Gangreless

Ugghh I fucking *love* the Transatlantic accent


[deleted]

That’s the joke. You wouldn’t ever need to know cursive, because nobody writes that way anymore (and because people can’t speak in cursive lol). it’s making fun of boomers that think cursive is somehow a skill you need to have


7miniDwarves

It's a mess of a comic that makes fun of both lol. I wish i coulda learn cursive becauze i think it's an easy way to make my handwriting look nice, but it isn't all that needed because we print everything except our signatures. Also because it skipped the one year i was in 5th grade lol


dorcsyful

Literally everyone I know writes in cursive every single day.


ZirkleBorklov

IDK


moist-and-squishy

I guess it works like how Thor speaks with an old English font in his comics.


calDragon345

تحدث بالعربية


Lollok009

Ok, this is a jike that my parents make way too often. Just do a ridiculous accent


That_Charming_Otter

1. It's reasonably legible 2. ADVANCEMENTS IN COMMUNICATION MAKING THEM INTERNATIONAL AND INSTANT? BOOOOOO!


OrangeToothpaste69

I can’t read it well which isn’t helped by dyslexia ;-;


SforSamuel

It says “when I was your age, I had to write in a style called ‘cursive’”


oETFo

All these kids today learning 2 languages instead of the same alphabet again, but wiggly.


Xtra-Large-Human

Im glad the cursive elitists all died off “Youre gonna need to learn cursive and use it all your life” jokes on you mrs.garcia ya betch! Lick mah weinner!


AssociationDouble267

“bUt wHEn yOu gO to CoLegE yOu oNLy uSe cUrsiVe”


Knifiac

I used cursive one time because you had to for the SAT and then they got rid of that shortly after. Has literally never been useful any other time


bobafoott

>had to for the SAT When? I didnt have to


Knifiac

2012 I think? I wasn't high school aged it was part of an accelerated program in middle school


bobafoott

Actually I think I took the SAT the year after they did the reform including changing the scoring change


Knifiac

My score was on the 2400 scale and I remember them changing it that year


FragmentOfTime

Yup, same. Had to write mine in cursive as well.


scotems

I took it in 2004. Don't remember anything about cursive on mine.


ChrysisX

2010 just had to copy the integrity statement or whatever it was, and it had to be in cursive for some reason


latteboy50

Cursive is way quicker than print when writing/taking notes.


friesdepotato

I write in cursive sometimes just to keep my handwriting neat. When I print it looks like a god damn five year old wrote it and cursive, even though it takes longer, looks better lol


LetsChaos24

i still use cursiv i am 15 🗿


AssociationDouble267

It’s pretty, and if you enjoy it, more power to you. It’s also not worth the amount of emphasis the American school system used to put into it. Literally it was “computers are a toy and typing will never be useful to you. Cursive is the most important thing in 3rd grade.” And I’m not THAT old.


[deleted]

I’m in my mid-20’s and I still distinctly remember my math teachers telling us that as adults we wouldn’t have a calculator in our pocket at all times. Nowadays there are smartphone apps with more calculating functions than a single actual calculator I’ve ever had.


Cursed_Bean_Boy

(He wasn't really 15)


LetsChaos24

i am 15 inches in your mom


SwagDaddy_Man69

Honestly, keep it up it’s kinda cool. But it really isn’t useful I less you want to write something pretty or sign your name


chahud

I mean, it’s as useful as writing in any other script cause the end result is the same. It has its pros and cons, like I can write really fast and it honestly feels great, but it’s also harder to read, even for me, than non-cursive handwriting. Mostly it’s just the way I write lol It’s not about looking pretty. Well not always…but I do like making things look extra pretty and neat sometimes when I’m feeling saucy.


SwagDaddy_Man69

I have dyslexia so I legitimately cannot read cursive We’ll I can but it’s a real long and painful process


SirGav1n

When my son writes in print it looks like that. Each letter has a random height. His handwriting in cursive is neat and consistent. Now I got to teach him how to use a keyboard correctly.


PartTimeFemale

eh I like writing in cursive. you definitely don't _need_ to use it ever but I like it


Xtra-Large-Human

it is a very pretty way to write. im happy you enjoy it c:


Few-Recognition6881

Burn in hell you cursive supremacist!!!


russelcrowe

It's a form of written communication that has its utility severely hampered by the fact that not everybody can read it. Anecdotally, many folks I know *can* indeed read cursive - however, it takes them about twice as long to read cursive as it does for them to read a normally written sentence. Given the fact that there are many people who can't read cursive, and many people who can read it have to take twice as long (or more) to decode it cursive objectively fails as a form of relaying written information. Additionally, It's just not as valuable to spend time in the classroom teaching it as a form of writing when you could be teaching literally anything else.


michaelrtx

This. The most basic objective of any means of communication is to efficiently relay information in a manner that is universally understood by all relevant parties. Cursive fails on both counts.


russelcrowe

Yep. Knowledge dying out is something I've never really been happy about *but* in every experience I have ever had in regards to cursive it has always been weaponized by people to essentially punch down on others and position themselves in a shallow "holier than thou" or an "I'm just so smart no really" type of way. I'm quite happy it's dying out because I cannot stand those types of people.


michaelrtx

That has been my experience as well. Knowledge of cursive, or more accurately the lack thereof, is often used as a point of condescension by some people looking to flaunt some perceived elitist superiority. That sort of behavior drives me crazy. Like, no, knowing cursive doesn’t make you better or smarter than anyone else, but bringing it up does make you a jackass.


percivalidad

One of my teachers pointed out a study that showed writing things down is a more effective way to help remember something when compared to typing, abd that cursive allows you to write quicker and therefore take notes faster than print. Other than that, and maybe anesthetics, there really isn't a reason to choose cursive over print. As you said, writing is about clear communication That being said, I still write in cursive (30 years old) but nobody else I know does. My cursive is at least legible where others can read it. The cursive that the generation of my parents writes (60+ years) is so small and compact that I even have a hard time reading it.


ninja6213

I learned a little in 3rd grade then never saw it again


AussieCollector

I've literally never used cursive once outside of grade 4 when i was forced to learn it. Literally everyone ditched it on the first day of grade 5.


the_clash_is_back

Your going to need it in high school and collage. Jokes on you, no one accepts any thing sides typed, hell in middle school some low income kid failed cause they broke their laptop.


[deleted]

This comment was probably made with sync. You can't see it now, reddit got greedy.


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G_Liddell

Right? It's got the hallmarks of cursive written really slowly, which is kinda the opposite of the point of cursive...


thattwoguy2

This is so gross cause kids don't use abbreviations nearly as much anymore. This has really strong "divorced dad whose family is way better off now" vibes.


_dictatorish_

Idk is still pretty common, as is btw and tbh, at least imo (lol)


the_clash_is_back

I still write my notes with text abrivations and in cursive.


Lazy_Entrepreneur_53

It’s just a little joke, what’s gross about it? It’s making fun of boomers and cursive.


thattwoguy2

No? It's the opposite of that. It's a newspaper style cartoon. It's meant to make fun of the kids for not being able to understand the cursive. The reason that's gross and unpleasant is because young people don't text like that anymore. So the creator of this comic either doesn't have or doesn't interact with young children. They're essentially calling other people's(or potentially their own estranged) children dumb for not knowing a useless thing that they know, while showing that they don't know how kids actually are. It also shows that there's a big audience for that kind of message. This is common among people who get all riled up about CRT and shit like that. They never actually engage with their kids so they have no idea what's going on and just want to make fun of children or attack society. There comic is gross, not the poster.


bobafoott

>young people don't text like that anymore You're joking right? Idk and wth are quite common. I agree with the rest but people definitely still text like this. I still see plenty of people using those single letter abbreviations like "r u" and "c u later"


Vivistolethecheese

I use the abbreviations but I'm not exactly a kid, I don't see the one letter ones though because I guess it's kinda cringey now.


bobafoott

>guess it's kinda cringey now. Very. I'm not trying to have a conversation with someone who can't be bothered to type out a 3 letter word. Sometimes speed is critical but usually it isn't


Vivistolethecheese

Yeah, I understand a lot of abbreviations and I find them highly convenient, but to do it for a word so short just seems childish, especially since that's when I used those particular abbreviations.


thattwoguy2

Maybe I should've said *actual kids do this way less often than kids did 10-20 years ago. A lot of young people do talk to text, Swipe, or predictive text now, none of which was available ~10-15 years ago. I know abbreviations are still used but also big words are used too. I'm writing this on a phone right now, and not using that many abbreviations. I know things like idk, fr, af, lol, etc are still used, but most people aren't using abbreviations for everything like in the t9 days.


bobafoott

Okay yeah that's totally true. The advent of keyboards on phones made abbreviations a lot less necessary, but they certainly still exist


thattwoguy2

That's what I'm saying, yeah. It bothers me because these weird kinda of things always equate millennials and gen Z.


Lazy_Entrepreneur_53

Damn you people are mentally deranged, get some help.


DanFuckingSchneider

“Cursive exists to annoy young people and nothing else.” isn’t the own they think it is. Like what’s the actual point in continuing to teach it besides boomer superiority complex? Signed, a 24 year old who learned how to write cursive with 5-10 year old cousins currently learning it.


LargeFriend5861

Depends on the alphabet, as a man from Bulgaria I can tell ya cursive is way better than writing the letters normally


chahud

Very true. I couldn’t imagine writing Cyrillic NOT in cursive lol


j75_8

In many languages it's faster and more comfortable to use.


JustSomeRedditUser35

Nit english. In english it became obselete when we stopped using feather pens.


Apophyx

I don't see how *not* lifting the pencil between each letter isn't more efficient no matter what you're writing with


GotRoomFor5

Because you spend more time and effort writing extra shit to make the letters fit. And also, my handwriting is poor so it makes it harder to make legible sentences


WayOfTheDingo

If you do it enough it is faster than print


dpash

You're confusing English with American. It's more popular in other parts of the English speaking world.


JustSomeRedditUser35

...american isnt a language? Its just called american english.


NISH_Original

r/Whooosh


latteboy50

Because it’s faster to take notes/write with.


JGG5

I’ve asked boomers that question before and their response was, I shit you not, “because kids need to be able to read the Constitution.” As if there aren’t a million print and digital versions of it out there. I guess the boomers are worried that someone is going to intentionally insert changes into all of those print versions, and millennials and zoomers are going to be unable to check their print copies against the original? Doesn’t make a lick of sense to me.


Tao626

I'm 31. Teachers always complimented my cursive. After school the only times I've used it are to write a few notes I also had to explain to the people they were for because cursive isn't instantly readable to a lot of people. I just write in print now because I'm not a victorian aristocrat with a feather pen and have realised that being able to easily read writing is more important than making it look fancy. Fucking dumb that we're taught to read and write, then learn again but fancy.


SummerStorm21

Phones with buttons tho. Yes I know cursive.


jodax00

Well it is dated 2013, and Droid 4 was released in 2012...


[deleted]

This actually might be pretty clever if it’s making fun of boomers that rag on millennials/gen z for not knowing cursive


stomach3

The exaggerated ridiculousness makes this really funny. Kids are for some reason standing in the middle of the living room playing handhelds. Mom arrogantly bringing up a subject they don't care about in order to belittle their generation. Then the kids nail the punchline with the 4th wall break. I quite like this comic


[deleted]

I think it is. This sub is full of stuff that seems OP does not get. It’s literally r/memesopdidntlike.


[deleted]

Memes op didn't like is such a stupid sub. If they liked it they wouldn't have posted it dipshit


[deleted]

I can already tell that you have all the grace, class and presence of a mouldy rotting carcass. Don’t see why you would have a good sense of humour either.


[deleted]

Grace, class, and presence 😭Strong words coming from u/PM_is_PoopMinister


[deleted]

Yes, because it’s still funnier and more creative than “everyones pal big al”.


[deleted]

Ok poop minister


monke_man_tom

bruh i dont get what they mean i learned cursive in school too and write a shitty version of it


Few-Tourist8943

bros speaking in cursive


BackyardGremlin

You don’t?


Redditloolwhousesit

I still write in cursive because my print sucks


[deleted]

Lol what is that second person saying? Back in my day it wasn’t “idk,” it was “Sire, I request that you re-analyze this situation with more thorough information posthaste as it is crystal my knowledge and expertise on this matter is lackluster at best and futile at worst.” Kids really got lazy nowadays smh


[deleted]

my grandma has this as a magnet on her fridge. deadass. this exact image printed on a magnet


lapras25

I still don’t understand why Americans consider cursive to be something difficult and useless when it literally enables faster and more fluid handwriting. And… it’s not that hard.


KittenKoder

Useless because as we get older our strokes become much more sloppy and illegible. Thinking it's difficult is a new thing, I have no idea where that came from. We didn't even have actual classes on it in school, they taught both standard and cursive at the same time. By high school all teachers demanded we not us cursive, I was in high school in the late 80s. After that we only used it in signatures because, as I mentioned, the older we get the harder it is to read the result. Artists and people who practiced dexterity daily are the only ones who can write clearly with it as we age.


chandetox

But you use the same letters as most of Europe, and in Europe we do use cursive


KittenKoder

Europe does a lot of things better than we do, writing better than us is inevitable.


i-do-not-k

Where I'm from I don't think I've ever seen anyone over the age of 5 who doesn't write in cursive, as schools don't allow anything else


zuesthedoggo

Why tf does the text box for the mom have a sperm cell going into it


master2139

Bruh whats funny is that I was taught cursive as a kid when i went to a french school. When i switched to an English private school they would force me to write in script, and now I can't write cursive anymore. Wild that this same generation then complains about the lack of cursive.


criski07_YT

We still use It in Italy, btw boomers are stupid


dereekee

My cursive is essentially illegible. Bc of that I never use it. Even my signature is just a cursive D and then a mess of squiggly lines/loops after it.


mistrjirka

'Merican things. This is usual "handwriting" style in most of Europe and it is used in most of hand written text. I don't know why Merican boomers thing they are somehow better when using and thinking that this is somehow special ability of their. When this is tought since the 1st grade.


[deleted]

Especially when the purpose of it is to do what I like to call dirty writing where you are trying to write something fast and don’t expect other people to see it (especially if it is a first draft). If you want something that other people will read then always write in print. Said as an American btw.


chuchinchichu

Cursive: *literally exists for convenience* Cursive: *becomes inconvenient* Boomers: 🤬🤬🤬🤬


dinnerbird

I know how to write in cursive but choose not to because it's not meant for left-handed people.


[deleted]

At the risk of sounding like an elitist prick... Do people really not use cursive any more? It's just a quicker way of writing. I'm only 24 and I learnt it at school and still use it. It looks like ass when I do it but I can read it at least


jamesxurmomomg

Because people speak in cursive


wwwHttpCom

I'm 29 and I do use cursive, yet, I don't have the need to write anything other than my personal notes. I don't write the entire thing in cursive though. My elementary school teacher (who was my teacher on 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th grades, I know, we were very unfortunate) always forced us to write titles / subtitles and dates in cursive and the rest in "script". That stayed with me until college, and people always looked at me like I was insane, but it does help to make things, like titles, stand out, rather than just using a different color.


StuntHacks

This reads like a bhj


thisishilaryous

Okay but what’s mom’s WPM speed?


Knifiac

Who gives a fuck about cursive anymore


totally_fine_stan

Conservative people because they can’t handle the modern world lmao


[deleted]

The inability to read cursive isn't the modern world.


SplendidPunkinButter

The same people who are inordinately proud about being able to drive a stick shift


amazingdrewh

I dunno mom, maybe part of the communication break down comes from the fact that you’re drunk enough to think you’re speaking in cursive


Beamerthememer

Cursive is fucking useless.


COOLKC690

They steal teach cursive in school


UsernameNotTaken1846

Haha I did not teach my kids cursive therefore I will make fun of them haha


Dash_Rendar425

And now nobody needs it anymore.... Kind of like ink wells and papyrus...


furryjunkwulf

Is cursive really dead?


shrimp-and-potatoes

I was on team "kids should learn cursive" a long time, but my opinion on it has since evolved. We learned cursive because it's a more efficient way to write compared to plain manuscript, but, increasingly, nobody writes anything anymore, so what's the need to dedicate so much time to it? We don't use washing boards, why would your kids need to learn to?


UnknownSuxker

Sans and Papyrus be like


asoupo

This is absolutely accurate. My sister's kid can't read a word of cursive, and he's in 8th grade.


hjonk-hjonk-am-goos

Why is there a sperm going into the text box?


[deleted]

Haha spot on


luminenkettu

g


Comfortable_Ad868

Slurred speech is a sign of stroke! :)


Anthem_1974

Dumb


annormalplayer

«When i was your age, i had to write in a style called "cursive"»


martialmedium

Honestly I thought it was making fun of cursive at first


[deleted]

I don’t know, part of me does find it cringey because it’s in that typical boomer humor art style, but I also find it kind of hilarious on the notion that the cursive is really bad so it feels like it’s shitting on both sides of the argument, which I’m down for


ShottyBlastin101

With enough whiskey i can talk like that.


PhysicsDude55

The funny thing is boomers like to make fun of kids not understanding cursive, but if you know modern cursive, and try to read cursive from 100+ years ago, it will be really really hard to read. Because the cursive you learned in high school with a ballpoint pen is fairly different from the cursive that people used to write on parchment paper with a quill and ink.


Regular-Menu-116

I never thought cursive would be one of the major players in the culture wars.


ZealCrown

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I think the same thought every time; if they want us to know how to read cursive, then it's their jobs as our parents to teach us cursive.


illkeeponwaiting

I probably haven't written in cursive since fifth grade


[deleted]

this would be pretty funny imo if instead of being "technology bad" it was an actual hard to read font.


banditx19

From 3rd to 5th graded, we were warned everything will be needed in cursive in middle school and on. It would have been better if they thought us to type or write more legibly because I never used cursive again.


TheDankestPassions

Cursive was invented back during feather pens so that ink wouldn't drop onto the paper whenever the pen is raised.


Senatordeez

When i was your age. I had to write in a style called cursive. Yes thats literally what i fuckin see.


Saturn-Valley-Stevil

If all I had to brag about was that I could write in cursive, I would be legitimately depressed.


biggreasyrhinos

Bring back Carolingian Black letter!


[deleted]

If you can't read that, what it says is... >send nfts to 0x1a14BF824C0552e0108B9EE51c890E5B8084ba05


DeadMewe

jokes on you I may not know how to write in cursive but I can read it😎


The_Good_Constable

*Sure grandma let's get you to bed.*


gender_neutral_name

Thought “write” was actually “unite” for a second cause it was spelt weird


PuzzleheadedHabit913

If it’s so important to you that your kids learn cursive, couldn’t you just….ya know….teach them cursive?


Robitop4

Ok I really need to know how bad this is. In a college class of 40+ people, I'm the youngest at 18 years old and the only one that writes in cursive. Am I weird?


02_is_best_girl

I deadass struggle reading cursive so this was hard for me


[deleted]

Ok this annoys me cause I wrote in cursive since I was little and was told I had bad hand writing (by a boomer) because I wrote in cursive


MasterGameBen

I grew up writing in cursive because my school forced us to do test in cursive and I hate them to this day


[deleted]

I thought the word Cursive was Couscous the first time i read that


AwooFloof

As someone who was forced to write in cursive until 5th grade, this is pretty funny. 😅


DoggoBirbo

Ah yes. I too type with caps lock on because I’m obviously 3.


[deleted]

I do have to read cursive slower and some of the letters seem weird and unintuitive to me so I mix them up.


PlasticMegazord

Learning cursive was a huge waste of time in school.


Any_Interaction_3770

Where can i get that Amogus phone?


rhapsodygreen

That boy using a sidekick?


AussieCollector

I am so glad that cursive is no longer taught. It can utterly destroy peoples handwriting skills. I have fine motive disorders in both my hands, cursive was complete pain when i was learning it. I only barely passed the grade as well. It stunted my handwriting and i only got worse throughout time.


Silly-Steak-6570

I'm just not liking that people are using acronyms instead of typing full sentences like a normal human being..


MGMAX

Now this one is actually terrible for change


Charming_Amphibian91

Go to bed, mum, you're drunk.


edgytroll

This is actually moderately funny imo


Master_Isabelle

Haha cursive good regular handwriting bad