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   Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:51:05 JST Hélène
   it's always surprising to me that americans struggle so much with cursive, how did that come to be?
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     Jade (disarray@pl.nulled.red)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:51:52 JST Jade

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     @helene they don't teach it in public schools
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:53:05 JST Hélène

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     @disarray why? how did that end up happening to the point where people became unable to read it, considering how widespread it still is in the rest of the world? wouldn't the older people still write that way too?
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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:53:24 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @helene stopped teaching it in the 90a

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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:53:34 JST Hélène

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     @vriska why, though? :thinking_cirno:
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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:54:16 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     @disarray @helene they teach it in like the later end of elementary school and then never again

     also computers and typing took over

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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:55:26 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @helene probably because someone paid a senator

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     freon (freon@letsalllovela.in)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:55:27 JST freon

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     @helene @disarray around the time common core arrived we basically gave up, probably citing computers or something
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     Love (love@ak.kawen.space)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:55:46 JST Love

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     @helene @disarray no no no. they still expect you to use it sometimes. you just have to learn later in life. real fucked up really.
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     pettanko (pettanko@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:55:52 JST pettanko

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     @helene we're taught it in elementary school and then never required to use it again, so for many it feels pointless unless you have a particular affinity for it.
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     welt (w@arachnid.town)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:56:56 JST welt

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     @helene I'm Canadian and they teach it here. It's just objectively hard to read. Especially since people write it so differently.
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:57:57 JST Hélène

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     @w it's harder than non-cursive, but i think it really depends on how you learned it and how familiar you are with it
     but again, i can read some pretty wild cursive stuff
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     orekix@shitposter.club's status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:57:59 JST orekix

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     @helene ballpoint pen
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:58:12 JST Hélène

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     @orekix i can write cursive with a ballpoint pen though
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     orekix@shitposter.club's status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 08:59:46 JST orekix

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     @helene anyone can but it's not the best pen for it because it made writing it more difficult due to strain on the hand and thicker strokes that made it more difficult to read
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     hirohito (hiro@epic.meme.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 09:00:51 JST hirohito

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     @helene@p.helene.moe @disarray@pl.nulled.red why?Nothing to write in cursive anymore.how did that end up happening to the point where people became unable to read itLack of exposure. Basically nothing besides brand names are written in cursive. (I was never taught cursive at school but I can read it because of reading old stuff written in cursive.)wouldn't the older people still write that way too?They do, but you don't get much handwritten stuff anymore. Maybe on a birthday card but that's once a year.

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     fl0wn (fl0wnspc@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 09:02:38 JST fl0wn

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     @helene I switch back and forth, usually printing for math and chemistry. Script any other time, usually with a fountain pen.
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     pettanko (pettanko@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 09:05:20 JST pettanko

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     @helene i kind of wish i stuck with it in retrospect because my handwriting is terrible but I don't know how long it'd take me to get used to and it's not the highest priority for me.
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 09:05:39 JST Hélène

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     @pettanko it's fine not to know how to nowadays, i think, it's just an interesting thought to me
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     xue (xue@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 09:05:46 JST xue

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     @helene @vriska masons that rule France choose different path that masons who rule USA
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     pettanko (pettanko@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 09:07:34 JST pettanko

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     @helene oh, yeah, here at least the only thing you really need to know how to write in cursive is your name. it's just i like pretty things and cursive is pretty.
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     laguna.cafe (lagunacafe@libretooth.gr)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 10:10:38 JST laguna.cafe

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     @helene american schools are majorly underfunded, teachers overworked and overpaid, they have to meet standardized testing metrics and other things, so the cursive teaching is usually very rushed, and like other things like math, unnecessarily stressful on the students.

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