The same thing is happening in other languages due to computers and cell phone use. The letters of the Latin alphabet make it easy to use these devices compared to languages that use ideograms, like Japanese, Korean,and Chinese. It not only keeps all of us from reading documents like the Declaratiom, but it also impacts the ability with us to connect to our individual past.

For example, in genealogy, you might find a document, like an immigration form, census, or even a letter written in cursive. This younger generation might be cut off from the connections to their ancestors. I have done genealogy indexing,where you are making digital indexes for scans of records. Reading old German script or French orthography is hard!

One of the things this reminds me of is a passage in the Bible where it says the,wicked will be left without root or branch. To me, it means they lose the connections to their family in the past and the future. Reading and writing cursive has been cut out of our schools in the name of STEM. Humanities have been relegated to the back seat because they don’t make the Cabal money.

One of the first things Communist China did after the glorious revolution was institute writing reform, "simplifying" the writing system in order to "increase literacy."

Decades later, Taiwan who never simplified their writing nevertheless maintains a higher literacy rate than the mainland, and the people in the mainland are no longer capable of easily reading anything that Chinese culture has produced in the millennia before the communists.

Dumbing down education in the name of "modernization" is deliberate.

How the hell do they sign their name? Printing? ?

I remember in school we had a class dedicated to learn writing in cursive. My frens … our papers, at the higher levels, were only to be written in cursive. Block letter papers were immediate disqualified.

So glad I learned cursive.

Hey, it's not my fault that I'm a product of public schooling. You might as well be writing a fantasy language. Take that shit to Gandalf.

I think my millennial kids may have been the last generation to actually learn cursive in elementary school, they're 28, 27 & 24. But I remember friends with younger kids at the time tell me they weren't teaching it anymore. It's just unfathomable.

I can't read cursive very well, and I learned it in school. You just don't use it much in your day to day life and it starts to slip.

Given a few minutes I'll probably infer from surrounding letters, but I definitely can't read cursive as quickly as I can speed read through print.

Reading cursive is a skill, and like any skill it will degrade unless you practice it. I never read cursive in my day-to-day. All of my books are printed. I never see cursive except in signatures and everyone knows those aren't meant to be read so much as recognized.

I would struggle to read historical documents because I'm used to reading print. I learned cursive in school but never used it. With cursive, it's hard to tell individual letters apart and I end up guessing what a given word is based on factors like length and "standout letters" like "T" and "G".

Not r swing certain founding documents in the language and type face they were written is why the school system doesn't teach cursive any longer. It's easier to control the populace if you take away their ability to read

brought this to my vote blue no matter who common senseless mom's attention two weeks ago. She said it doesn't have to be in cursive they can read it in standard print. So I said well how do those who don't know cursive know it hasn't been edited. She acted like the government wouldn't do that. Turning my back on her till she find her way back to God.