Writing in cursive

["couldbecousin"]

  So, about 10 years ago, I started noticing that the younger workers at my job weren't using cursive
  to write their names on their timecards.  I've heard since then that cursive isn't being taught as rigorously
  to the current youngsters as it was to my generation and those before me.  My own handwriting deviates
  in small ways from "proper" cursive, usually in that I sometimes use lettering for capital letters at the
  beginning of a word, but on the whole it's kind of pretty and quite legible, though my boss once said
  she can't read it because it's "too curly."  (She's my age but letters instead of using cursive except for
  her signature.)  So I'm wondering, who here uses cursive regularly?  How much penmanship instruction
  did you get in school?  (I had penmanship lessons from grades 1-6, or roughly age 6-11.) 

[Jack]

Only recall one year of cursive in elementary school, but it's possible there was more and don't remember.

[Icequeen]

The only time I use cursive anymore for is when I sign my name on something.

Otherwise I type or print it...I even have type written school excuses in a fill-in-the-blank format for the kid.

I had beautiful cursive handwriting, now depending on the weather and how well my hands work it can vary from pretty to chicken scratch. My printing is much more legible and easier to read even for myself now.

When you write out a grocery list in cursive, get to the store and can't figure out wtf you wrote...you need to print. 

[Fun With Matches]

Joined-up handwriting, you mean?

[Icequeen]

Joined-up handwriting, you mean?

Yep.

[Fun With Matches]

Ah. I've always used joined-up handwriting, since we were taught it during one lesson when I was 10 years old. I found it far easier than continually taking the pen off the page. It looks prettier too.

[Fun With Matches]

My handwriting is spikey too.

[odeon]

  So, about 10 years ago, I started noticing that the younger workers at my job weren't using cursive
  to write their names on their timecards.  I've heard since then that cursive isn't being taught as rigorously
  to the current youngsters as it was to my generation and those before me.  My own handwriting deviates
  in small ways from "proper" cursive, usually in that I sometimes use lettering for capital letters at the
  beginning of a word, but on the whole it's kind of pretty and quite legible, though my boss once said
  she can't read it because it's "too curly."  (She's my age but letters instead of using cursive except for
  her signature.)  So I'm wondering, who here uses cursive regularly?  How much penmanship instruction
  did you get in school?  (I had penmanship lessons from grades 1-6, or roughly age 6-11.) 

I used to do it but nobody can read it anymore.

[Jack]

My handwriting is spikey too.

Mine too, at least the cursive. Use cursive when writing for other people to read; it's tall, pointy, and compact. Have been told it's nice. When writing for myself, it's a scrawled mixture of print and cursive with no consistency, except for being sloppy and tilted up to the right with complete disregard for being horizontal, often illegible sometimes even to me.

[Queen Victoria]

For lists, I letter my words (My FIL was a graphic artist and insisted that people "letter", machines "print.")

For just about everything else I use cursive script.

As an oddity, for umpteen years I use all lower-case letters for my (three) initials.  It flows better.

[Gopher Gary]

I just print, but I don't pick up the pen as much as I should so some letter combinations look like print trying a little bit to be cursive. It's neat, but sort of round and girly looking. 

[renaeden]

I use cursive if I want my writing to look nice but mostly I print because it is faster.

I may post a pic later of an example of my writing.

[renaeden]

Here are some networking notes I took at college:

["couldbecousin"]

  Your lettering is very neat.  I wouldn't have the patience for that, that's why I use cursive. 

[renaeden]

I am kind of surprised it is still neat after 5 years of uni, heh.