Cursive Writing

Interesting, How do documents get notarized online anyway? Not that I really care anymore. So many people are just crooks Just easier for them now. I never liked that part of my job anyway,
 

Many people can print fast I guess, but I think cursive is a lot faster. Like when making a list or copying a recipe. I suppose that's about all it's good for these days, but text written in the Palmer method is just beautiful, imo.
 

C'est Moi said:
I guess I'm resistant to change, but logically there's no reason to learn cursive. It would be handy to know how to sign your name, though. How would that work on legal documents, checks, etc. if you don't have a "signature?"

And of course all those handwriting analysts will be out of a job. :D
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Cursive is a heck of a lot faster than printing if you have a time limit as in an exam.

You are still limited to hand writing. I can't imagine writing an essay and hand printing it.
 
Trade said:
I seldom write anymore. That is with a pen on paper. Mostly it's on the computer. And when I do write on paper it's often a mix of print and cursive. My cursive never has been that good. And now that I am old and my hands aren't as steady as they used to be it looks like a chicken got ink on it's feet and walked across the paper.
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This is also me. I had a good cursive hand but lost it - age or lack of use?
 
How would that work on legal documents, checks, etc. if you don't have a "signature?"
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I think the days of a cursive signature being sort of "sacred" are gone. Any signature seems to be OK, even something scrawled and totally indecipherable. Remember when only doctors used to write that way on their
prescription pads? Now, everybody seems to write that way.

Part of it is because on those little machines that read credit cards, you have to sign your name on a vertical screen. It is virtually impossible to write clearly that way. Everybody scribbles. It seems that as long as there is
something in the "sign your name" section, it's all right.

I have a feeling that signatures will be replaced by fingerprint recognition. My smart phone already uses that to let me open up the phone, although it doesn't always work and sometimes I have to type in a code.

If people choose not to use cursive any more, that's just the way it is. Getting nostalgic over beautiful calligraphy is irrelevant. As someone, I think Warrigal, said, there are more important issues of concern in education than
what system of writing is being taught.
 
My writing looks like that of a Doctor and nobody
can read it without difficulty, this is due to me
being impatient I suppose, when I take my time
it is almost like "Copper Plate"m very nice.

So in my haste I print if somebody else needs to read it.

Mike.
 
C'est Moi said:
I guess I'm resistant to change, but logically there's no reason to learn cursive. It would be handy to know how to sign your name, though. How would that work on legal documents, checks, etc. if you don't have a "signature?"

And of course all those handwriting analysts will be out of a job. :D
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"no reason to learn cursive." Brilliant. Screw reading it is for suckers.
 
Butterfly said:
You print an original, get that notarized, and then scan it in to file electronically.
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I understand that (which you notarize the signature before electronically filing) but that's not what I was asking about. The following is.

A few moments ago, I E signed about two dozen real-estate documents by clicking on the highlighted areas
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Olivia said:
I understand that (which you notarize the signature before electronically filing) but that's not what I was asking about. The following is.
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Gary O' said:
A few moments ago, I E signed about two dozen real-estate documents by clicking on the highlighted areas
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They were offer documents for property we were interested in.
Turns out (according to our broker) aside from two pieces of paper of which required our presence, everything can be docusigned from the comfort of our cabin, 50 miles away.
Not sure if this answers your question….

Better yet, just google DocuSign for how eSignatures work


aaand, (going back to the topic) you get several drop down options in regard to fonts for yer signature and initials
 
To me, the biggest advantage to cursive over printing is that in cursive, the end of a word is obvious. When printed, it is often not or open to question, especially when printing fast or when space is limited.
 
Over the years my handwriting morphed into a print/cursive hybrid. It is generally legible to my eyes when I go to read it back. How others fare with it I really couldn't say but I haven't had any recent complaints.

Handwriting demands thinking through every letter and word beforehand. No backspace, delete, spelling corrections, cut and paste shifting or other editing options.

99.9% of my "written" communication is done through electronic means - both sending and receiving.
I'm cool with that.
 
In college, I first found cursive faster than printing, as I listened to lectures. In no time, however, as I puzzled over my own scrawl, I started taping all lectures, and then going over them, at my leisure, when I got back to my room. I printed them out on paper, and studied that way. It worked very well. I don't sweat the coming death of cursive.
 
Gary O' said:
They were offer documents for property we were interested in.
Turns out (according to our broker) aside from two pieces of paper of which required our presence, everything can be docusigned from the comfort of our cabin, 50 miles away.
Not sure if this answers your question….

Better yet, just google DocuSign for how eSignatures work


aaand, (going back to the topic) you get several drop down options in regard to fonts for yer signature and initials
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That's if you have a computer. If you don't you have to sign manually.
 
Warrigal said:
I can't read hieroglyphics either. I would need a translation in plain text to be able to read an Ancient Egyptian story.

The same with historic documents. There are plenty of plain text versions of important documents such as the Magna Carta and the US Constitution to allow people to study them more easily. I wouldn't worry about kids not learning cursive script or copper plate. I would worry if they were not being taught analysis and critical thinking skills. These skills inoculate them against the things you fear.
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funny you should mention hieroglyphics... :grin::grin:
 

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Gary O' said:
iPhone works too
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I've read that website regarding Docusign. Nowhere did I find anything similar to having someone being positively identified as when sitting in person in front of a Notary Public. I was a Notary for eight years. I hated it. Not my choice, but our organization needed someone to notarize real estate documents. So it was a small part of my job. But I also was required to notarize all kind of other types of documents for the public. I also notarized mortgage documents for persons in front of me with an out-of-state Escrow Company on the phone. Anyway, if I was going to have to be a notary, I was going to do it right. But I did find that there is notary by video. Interesting, and I could see that could be a valid notarization. At least they could see if someone had a so-called gun at their head. In other words, a notary needs to take things like observation of the signers of a document into account that they look like they are in their right minds, competent, and not being coerced. Notaries do get called into court to testify to things like that when documents may be challenged. And, by the way, Docusign is not legal is the majority of U.S. states.
 
It's kind of sad, but that's life, in that slowly what makes us individual persons is slowly being chipped (pun intended) away. The personal is becoming more and more impersonal. What is more personal than a lovely hand-written note from a close friend/loved one in your life?
 
Olivia said:
I've read that website regarding Docusign. Nowhere did I find anything similar to having someone being positively identified as when sitting in person in front of a Notary Public. I was a Notary for eight years. I hated it. Not my choice, but our organization needed someone to notarize real estate documents. So it was a small part of my job. But I also was required to notarize all kind of other types of documents for the public. I also notarized mortgage documents for persons in front of me with an out-of-state Escrow Company on the phone. Anyway, if I was going to have to be a notary, I was going to do it right. But I did find that there is notary by video. Interesting, and I could see that could be a valid notarization. At least they could see if someone had a so-called gun at their head. In other words, a notary needs to take things like observation of the signers of a document into account that they look like they are in their right minds, competent, and not being coerced. Notaries do get called into court to testify to things like that when documents may be challenged. And, by the way, Docusign is not legal is the majority of U.S. states.
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Yeah, it mystified me as I was accustomed to having to be present.

Notaries are still gold IMO
 
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