To ask you to help me with a little experiment?

[Namechangearoon]

Please could you write them quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' in your normal handwriting, take a picture and post it here with your age?

I'm 36

Age 55.

I am back

Sorry

So would you all say that you have used cursive or joined up writing ?

I wanted to see how many of us do. Of course some of us may not have been taught it anyway but it is interesting to see how, as adults, we may not use it.

It does look like there is an element of cursive writing in most of these examples.

Oh shit I forgot - I had Kimchi to make and I got busy with that.

I generally use joined up writing. I’m 44.

Although - what would you all say? Are these true examples of cursive writing? All of them are legible but not many have used strictly cursive all the way through.

Thank you for indulging me. My son (10) will not do cursive. I need to talk to his teacher about it as I think pressuring him to do so is now becoming a lost cause. I am going to show him these in the morning.

I was taught cursive in primary school but stopped using it as soon as I started secondary school.

Some of you have lovely handwriting, made me realise how scruffy mine can be. This is a 23:10 offering if I was sat at a table and actually thought about it, it could be much neater

To add I'd say I have a mix of cursive and non-cursive.

This is how the handwriting learning book I have for my son says it should be done. Below it is the effort my son made around age 8 but refusing to do cursive.

I'll have to get him to do it again to compare.

I don't use cursive at all. I was taught it but I find it easier to write without. My nana wrote in cursive and it was beautiful. If mine looked like hers then I'd use it.

@AranciaRosso

I have only one thing to say to you lot.

Boswell.

like this?

I wonder if a lot of people had to learn cursive as adults because their children did. My son didn't seem to do it (he is 19) but my daughter really does it (she is 8). I didn't write using cursive as an adult until my daughter kept bringing home worksheets about it and I had to practice how to do it as she couldn't read my writing when we did homework together!

Well, I won't post my effort now ... I'm 59 and was taught joined up writing but >30 years of coding later it's degenerated into an illegible scrawl so I have to mostly print if I actually want to be able to read it again (let alone anyone else doing so).

I still use mostly joined up writing, I'm not sure what counts as true "cursive?" I don't put those little tails before letters at the beginning of words (like the q, b, j, o, t, l, d in that printed example) though, was never taught them. We learned to make the letters without joiny bits (technical term!) and then joined them in about year 2/3? I consciously changed a few things in secondary school, like the shape of my s and joining on from p and b which I was initially not taught to, but my writing hasn't changed a huge amount since then.

My mum is 72 and has beautiful "copperplate" handwriting, I wish mine looked like hers!

42...does cursive mean joined up?
My writing is terrible but I write reams of notes at work so I think it’s just devolved into an awful scrawl

I changed my handwriting on a weekly basis when I was at school. Slant to the left, slant to the right, huge circles over the 'i' massive swooping curls on my 'g'.

I write with joined up writing. With joined up writing, you learn to write your letters first then join them from year 2 to 3 onwards. When my dd started school 10 years ago they decided to teach the children to do all their letters with cursive before teaching them how to write letters. All with little tails at the beginning of the letter. I think it looks really scruffy and illegible. especially the younger years when they are trying to learn.

The school Dd went to, took all the books out of the library, and got a few books with cursive writing in and told the parents not to let the dc”s try to read books without cursive words in!

I thought this was ridiculous. So the Dc had to struggle with trying to write these unfamiliar letters and to read them. My Dd”s year, were the first year they started this. I moved her to a different school. It was much better.

Haven't read full thread so apologies if you don't need the photos still. I just wanted a go

Me

@Namechangearoon if it helps, my dad is left handed. He was unwell as a child so missed a lot of school and then they tied his left hand behind his back to make him use his right
As a result his writing is horrendous. Imagine a doctor writing, drunk, and blindfolded and you might get close it's more like he uses his own made up language sometimes
Also no qualifications
He's just retired after a successful career in the restaurant and hotel trade although he was never allowed to write down food orders...

Here's mine

Interesting. My ds now 12 hated doing cursive in primary and basically refused to do it. Didnt see the point, and to be honest neither did I because I don't really use cursive.

@Tinty

I write with joined up writing. With joined up writing, you learn to write your letters first then join them from year 2 to 3 onwards. When my dd started school 10 years ago they decided to teach the children to do all their letters with cursive before teaching them how to write letters. All with little tails at the beginning of the letter. I think it looks really scruffy and illegible. especially the younger years when they are trying to learn.

The school Dd went to, took all the books out of the library, and got a few books with cursive writing in and told the parents not to let the dc”s try to read books without cursive words in!

I thought this was ridiculous. So the Dc had to struggle with trying to write these unfamiliar letters and to read them. My Dd”s year, were the first year they started this. I moved her to a different school. It was much better.

As a school librarian this pains me

I'm left handed so always struggled with the prescribed way of writing, I tend to try go with legible generally!!