Thank you letter

[eveled]

My wife works at a hospital. Recently she received a beautifully hand written letter. Thanking her for her dedication. From a retired nurse she never met.

We do not know the details if it was just one nurse or a group of retirees. I don’t know. But it was a nice gesture.

The nurse had beautiful penmanship that is so rarely seen today.

The problem is anyone who works there and is under 30 cannot read cursive writing. They’ve been bringing their letters to my wife to translate! Lol.

 

[Johnnu2]

Scary world.... gonna get worse (probably for us, not them)

J.

 

[eveled]

These are all hard working college educated people. They’ll be fine. It’s their world now.

Good to know we have a secret code they can’t read. 😂

 

[Jeepnik]

Cursive, when done well, like calligraphy is quite beautiful. But both suffer from the same issue. Unless one is familiar with the style they can be hard to decipher.

If you add in someone like me with atrocious penmanship it’s impossible to read. Penmanship is courtesy of a yard stick and a sadistic teacher.

Block, while not nearly as attractive, is more universally easily understood. Toss in the use of block on electronic devices and the slow death of cursive makes since.

Communication whether spoken or written is always evolving. Those raised with one standard always lament its demise when another form displaces the method they are comfortable with. Imagine trying to do simple math, much less algebra of higher forms using Roman numerals.

 

[g5m]

My wife has great, clear cursive writing. So, I took an envelope to the Post Office which needed tracking, and the man at the PO couldn't read it. I had to print it out on the envelope.
And, an acquaintance showed her grandson a beautifully written note and he asked what language that was. Uhh, English ..

A while back we went to a friend's granddaughter's birthday party. Most of the guests were teachers. My wife started visiting these nice people we didn't know and she happened to ask one of the teachers if her children wrote with cursive. She said 'yes", and that she had taught them and also taught her students cursive. Another teacher said "They don't pay me enough to teach cursive". It started an amusing (to us) verbal catfight. Oh well, just another party pooper.

 

[eveled]

I took an industrial drawing class in high school. My printing is very precise. That is when I stopped using cursive.

So I print everything but I only use capital letters. It takes a lot of effort for me to print in lower case and I will keep reverting back to capitals. So I stopped fighting it after highschool. I’m basically a P-touch label maker.

I’m somewhat sensitive to it because it makes me look uneducated. But I get compliments on the neatness of my handwriting frequently. So I stopped worrying about it.

My Mom has very distinct cursive quite compact, but very legible. But she somehow crosses her “r”’s? Not across but a down stroke.

 

[wheelgun1958]

My penmanship has never been great. Add to that arthritis in the thumbs and an occasional twitch, well fugeddaboutit.

 

[wolfsong]

I've been looking for a free true cursive app for my phone, but no luck yet.

 

[Mobuck]

During most of my 30 years with USPS, I printed all written communication. Since my hands have become mis-shapen and stiff, I can't write in cursive well anymore but can still print clearly. One of my employees has difficulty reading cursive (he's mid-70ish with an 8th grade education) so anything I write for training or whatever is printed.
So much of current 'education' skips over basic skills and depends on digital widgetry to fill in the skips.

 

[contender]

In HS,, I took 3 years of architectural drafting. I learned to "block print" or whatever it's called.
But I also was raised to write in cursive.

I do both,, but so far,, nobody has commented one way or another about my writing. And I can read either one.

A well written "Thank You" note,, in good cursive or even calligraphy, is a beautiful, yet almost lost art. Too bad.

 

[gramps]

I was taught both printing and cursive. I use either one when appropriate. Cursive for thank you notes, birthday cards, letters etc. Print when addressing envelopes etc.
gramps

 

[jyo]

I'm an old guy now---we were taught to write in English, both Block and Cursive---nothing to it---never gave it a second thought...

 

[Jeepnik]

I took an industrial drawing class in high school. My printing is very precise. That is when I stopped using cursive.

So I print everything but I only use capital letters. It takes a lot of effort for me to print in lower case and I will keep reverting back to capitals. So I stopped fighting it after highschool. I’m basically a P-touch label maker.

I’m somewhat sensitive to it because it makes me look uneducated. But I get compliments on the neatness of my handwriting frequently. So I stopped worrying about it.

My Mom has very distinct cursive quite compact, but very legible. But she somehow crosses her “r”’s? Not across but a down stroke.

My block printing is also darned near unreadable. When you take a lefthanded person and beat them into being righthanded that's what you get.