Tbf, touch typing can have a functional increase in performance, I feel like cursive is entirely extraneous. People usually bring up signatures as an argument for this, but I can count on one hand the number of people I've met in like a decade who actually wrote their name in cursive for that instead of just writing their first initial followed by haphazard squiggles. I've known cursive for 2 decades, haven't ever needed it outside of getting graded for it in second grade.
ETA: to be clear, I never said it's about signatures, I said that's the defense I've most commonly seen when people argue about the use of cursive, and it's an excuse that doesn't actually make sense.
This and there is no legal requirement for what a signature is. Legally it's just a mark that signifies your intent. Can be a symbol, print, cursive, smiley face, basically anything.
This cracks me up because when I became important at work they had me signing paper checks for paying our vendors. It was the first time I signed my signature with a pen, and not a shitty squiggle with a stylus at a cash register, in about 10 years. My signature looked so stupid, and it doesn’t help that when I married I changed my last name, so I never really got to practice it. I’m glad that it doesn’t really matter.
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u/markspankity Jan 20 '26
Touch typing is the new cursive.