Word of the Day: Cursive writing
Let me ask you a question. How often do you write with a pen and paper in cursive writing?
I don’t mean jot down a shopping list. I mean, how often do you sit down and write a letter or a few pages of text?
Hardly ever? Me too. I seldom use a pen and paper anymore. All of my writing is on a computer, smartphone or tablet. For this reason, I never practice my cursive writing anymore.
Cursive writing is handwriting that has rounded letters that are all joined together.
I learned how to write in elementary school, but I’ve met younger Canadians (I’m 44) who do not know how to write or who do not know how to make capital letters in cursive writing.
Like me, their penmanship is not as good as that of our parents.
So how do they write? They don’t write at all. They print or use what is called block letters.
It somehow seems sad to me that the number of people practising cursive writing is declining.
I guess it is somewhat of a lost art these days.