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[+] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    What's the advantage though? What benefits does this have besides being able to read book covers written by people out of touch with their audience?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You know what's faster? Taka Taka on my keyboard.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Fair point, but if you're worrying about speed more than anything else, you're probably writing quite a bit and you're more than likely taking notes of some sort.

    The motor skills involved in writing things down by hand seems to aid memory more than typing it out does. Taka taka's fun, faster, and not nearly as wasteful, but I'm choosing to stick with my 9,000 pens for retention

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    You can read other people's signatures

    Why would you want to

    the constitution

    Plenty of verified print versions floating out there

    notes from your older lawyer

    If I'm paying someone 100$/minute, they'd better be able to write in print upon request

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I use it when writing text along side math or diagrams, to differentiate it. I write cursive notes and use print to add emphasis. It's also much easier to write legibly at a higher speed, which I'll admit was more important before we typed as much as we do now. My cursive is at least as legible as my printing.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    For you personally? Probably not much. For us as a society? Well, being able to read our laws and history in their original form is pretty important.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not really, they've been transcribed and the people who need to be able to read the originals can learn just like people learn Latin if they need it, not as a mandatory language in school.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Transcriptions are easy to alter. Kids learn reading and writing, and language in general much faster than adults. You can spend an hour a day for a few months with a kid and they'll have it down pat.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You really think people are gonna go down to the basement in DC and reason.the original documents and failure to read those is how we lose our rights? Stuff like the patriot act are bigger threats

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Future legislatures will. I don't like the idea of nobody in our government being able to read our laws in a generation.

    Average people can view the original Constitution when taking a tour, and it's pretty neat to be able to read the original. Like a lot of things in education, knowing them won't necessarily be very useful, but they can provide for a richer, more fulfilling life.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's easy to learn cursive and compare if you're that paranoid about it (although being extremely good at reading cursive doesn't guarantee you'll be able to read all documents written in cursive), it doesn't mean everyone needs to learn it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The advantage of learning it is being able to read when other people write with it.

    I’m not saying it’s common, but it’s not hard to learn to read and I’m sure you will come across it at some point.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    being able to read when other people write with it.

    They can write legibly if they want me to read what they write.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It’s not that someone is going to write something they want you to read.

    It’s more about someone wrote something and by chance you want to read it. The only problem is that it’s in cursive, you can’t.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    z doesn't look like that in cursive, nor do most of the capital listed you listed Better to just post an image of the correct versions

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That is how z looks in cursive.

    They're the same thing.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I literally linked to an image showing exactly what it should look like.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    That's just a different font.
    I hope you know what fonts are.

    Edit. Apparently not, lol

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Well I'm pretty sure you don't, since handwriting doesn't have "fonts".

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