I was rapped on the knuckles when I was learning penmanship. Today, I have several Calligraphy kits and I enjoy this style of writing. I am glad that I have continued "cursive" writing in this most elegant style of writing!

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I always write cursive, and I DID study Palmer Method. By the age of fourteen I was into handwriting analysis, and was the one who came out after the Anthrax letters and said, among other things that the handwriting on the letters and envelopes could not have come from and arab. I also told Oprah Winfrey live on the air eight years before she admitted it, that she had "sexual baggage/abuse issues" from her past, and that's why she "had trouble relating to men." This was in 1983 when she was in Baltimore, one month before she went to Chicago, before she became a star.

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I remember the Palmer method. My Mother had beautiful penmanship. I still have the award pins she was given, in High School. Very few people today, take the time to write gracefully, or even legibly, for that matter. It is too bad, because it is a lost art.

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I cursive print, if that makes any sense at all. I hate my handwritting. I always think that people who have beautiful handwritting were smarter then the rest. Just a thought!

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I have a BA in English and I bemoan the loss of writing skills in our larger society. I still write letters, in my so-so cursive, and I know that "writing" takes a thoughtfulness and care which are appreciated by not only the writer, but by others, as the written word can be kept and treasured. Writing hones the mind and illuminates the heart.

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The example given is not true cursive and some of it is hard to decipher. Also, avocado is spelled incorrectly.

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Rather than emulate a particular standard, and try to get one's handwriting "right", in accordance with a standard (as one would in school penmanship class), I admire the distinctive style that everyone naturally displays, so that one can recognize them "by their handwriting." I do believe that consistancy is a virtue, writing each letter the same, rather than using 2 styles for the same letter, as demonstrated by the "L" in "milk" as contrasted with that letter the other words in the example.

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I love beautiful handwriting and, in fact, noticed the handwriting in the example before I noticed the subject matter of the article! However, I prefer correct spelling over the shape of the letters, and I agree with the person who wrote about the spelling of "avocado." I also noticed that the writer of the articles in this list, in referring to something that was phased out, wrote "fazed"! Please! Doesn't AOL have editors? Or spell-check?

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I am working on a Master's in Education, and found out during my observations that, in this area, not only do they not teach children how to write in cursive, schools are not allowed to use cursive, because some students cannot read it. I feel it is a true loss. I wish my handwriting were more attractive.

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I do not remember the method of cursive writing that I was taught. My friends and I refer to our Catholic school education, hence our catholic school writing. What I find amazing is that my children are not taught cursive in school, and it is just not our current school district but others as well. It has been explained to us as that children will be using the computer and text messaging so cursive has no place in the current educational plans. What a shame, what will be next?

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Yes, I wish I could find a refresh class in cursive writing. I need a brush up on the basics of its elegant style.

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I was taught to write cursive three times. Once in first grade at a convent school, once in a Catholic parochial school in second and in third grade in a pubic school. We had penmanship classes with the Palmer method throughout elementery school. When I was about thirty years old, now 56, someone who did not know me, saw my cursive writing and asked if I had attended Sacred Heart Schools. Bless Mother Lynn, she taught me cursive in first grade at a Sacred Heart School and I guess it stuck.

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We have reached the NEA's goal of a politically-correct universal stupidity when schools cannot teach cursive writing because some students can't read it!! DUH!!
In John D. Rockefeller's vacation home in Ormond Beach, FL there is one of his handwritten journals opened on his desk. You can read it from 5 feet away, it is so clear and legible (to me and others educated before the p-c crowd took over our lives).

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I was originally taught cursive in the third and fifth grade. They busted our asses about it too. They kept saying, "This is the only acceptable form of writing when you get to middle school!" I found it to be as true as a "permanent record".

I used to be pretty good at it back in 97. And because I was so used to it I wrote only in cursive for a long time. Now I barely write anything on paper at all. Ever. Welcome to the 21st century.

With digital text things are faster. More on demand. More dynamic. With these benefits there are consequences. The lack of cursive let alone legible hand writing is the consequence.

With everything being digitized everything will see the same fall. People are less patient with everything in general now. I mean we can now send mail to someone across the world in less than 30 seconds. What makes you think that a type of writing that takes longer will survive now a days?

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Jack commented that he never handwrites anything anymore. An email may be convenient, but it has no soul and no personality attached with it. I exchange letters with many people and we purposely use fountain pens, (isn't that old fashioned) to write to each other to keep the art of handwriting alive. My daughter, who is 24, and I exchange letters on a regular basis even though we do keep in touch by email and instatnt messenger. A hand written letter means someone has taken the time and effort to collect themselves and their thoughts down on paper and mailed them to you.

To those who hope the handwritten word perishes. It may and we will all be the poorer because of it.

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ALL children should learn to print and then to write in cursive. The reasoning of not learning to write cursive because of the computer does not make sense. Everyone has to sign their names to legal documents at some point in time. I work in an elementary school and am appaled at the lack of handwrting that is taught. Children are not corrected and taught handwriting in the correct manner. I work in a very upscale district so it is amazing to me that parents do not complain. The other subject that is not taught enough is spelling. Many times students papers are hung in the hallways with many mis spellings.

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Talk about misspelled words and my love for spelling. I misspelled cursive(Curive) in my first line of words. Oopsy! :-)

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