• Nefara@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    )I still write things by hand because it seems to engage another part of my brain to help me remember. I can remember most of a shopping list that I’ve written down, even if I forgot the list itself. I have so little patience for forming words, and cursive actually can be written so much faster than print once it becomes second nature. I’ve fallen into a weird hybrid of cursive and print that defaults to whichever letter is able to be formed fastest. If you never got to the point where cursive happened “accidentally” then yeah I guess it can seem pointless, but it can be super useful with enough proficiency.

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      9 months ago

      Dude I write the same way but I’ll do you one better. It’s a weird combination of cursive, print, upper case AND lower case letters. Just depends what would flow better from the previous letter and it can also vary depending on the type of writing instrument I’m holding.

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      8 months ago

      I guess that’s true now that you mention it. I never studied throughout high school but if I took notes on it I just knew it. 99% of the notes I took never even got looked at once after moving on to the next page, but I knew that stuff. Maybe this kind of thing is one of the last few uses to die. And this in and of itself won’t prevent it from becoming extinct eventually.