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In reply to the discussion: Cursive writing is not being taught in much of America. [View all]electric_blue68
(15,025 posts)Yeah, my cursive can get sloppy. I use a half hook instinctively done over a relatively short time as a tween.
For me bio mechanical issues are the thing. A right hander mostly pulls their pen across the page. A left hander mostly pushes.
My hand always gets tired after one side of a page of cursive - where in I can draw for hours bc my hand is not mostly pushing. The half hook let me partially pull the pen like a rightie. Don't know why I never used a full hook.
My writing isn't great esp if I have to rush.
I do a fair amount of writing. Cursive is faster than printing but I do that, too.
Heaven forbid, I didn't learn to touch type (yes, i'm being snarky). We got dragged off to a different HS ?1/wk for half a year to learn typing. I don't remember whether it was the girls only.
I even tried on my own in my ?late 20's w a type writer at home to add clerk typist, since I did clerical work- but never could put the full effort into it. The clerical work was after leaving the commercial art field first time. I did learn a bit bc there were common enough words with a mix of two to three or four fingers that my muscle memory would work enoufh for them.
Typing, true, would be useful in college, in certain fields in science, journalism, et al. But back then ? '68, '69 it was still a thing for guiding (herding? 😄😡 ) young women into Secretarial jobs. One I swore as an artist I'd try to avoid. Since I went to Art College, I didn't do nearly enough writing as I would have for just about any other college curriculum.
Nothing intrinsically wrong, bad at all about it (secretary); stand alone as a job. A very helpful job that would have some variations depending on boss, and the field it was - but it was still quite tied into what kind of jobs women "should be" doing back then! (imho)