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Curse Cursive

Curse Cursive

by Adam on April 14, 2014 at 12:18 am
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  1. S
    S
    April 14, 2014, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    FIR- Wait, no. Almost forgot. I’m not an idiot who cares about that.

    On topic, I have never been very apt with cursive, and can write it- but not read it. Strange? Yes.

  2. Emily
    Emily
    April 14, 2014, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    THANK YOU! I thought i was the only person celebrating the slow demise of cursive.

  3. Ultimate Yes America 6-5000: The Movie
    Ultimate Yes America 6-5000: The Movie
    April 14, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    It’s a horrible irony that my cursive looks great, but my printing looks like a drunk baby taking a piss while being smacked around by his demented uncle Cole.

    • Love The Bad Guy
      Love The Bad Guy
      April 14, 2014, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      Best. Simile. EVER.

      • Error 52
        Error 52
        April 14, 2014, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

        I like “Faster than a Cheetah on crack.”

    • karine76
      karine76
      April 14, 2014, 7:29 am | # | Reply

      Same here.

    • Rhea
      Rhea
      April 14, 2014, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      I still recall the comment in school: “It looks like an intoxicated chicken walked across it.”

      • Mang
        Mang
        June 2, 2014, 7:58 am | # | Reply

        I had spider…
        And Hebrew.
        That was from a Jewish teacher too…

  4. weesh
    weesh
    April 14, 2014, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    cursive is a getting to me a MORE interesting skill, since fewer people can do it. I am rooting for its decline so that I will be one of the few who can still pull it off. Unless you have a capitol ‘S’ in your name.

    • Barlakopofai
      Barlakopofai
      April 14, 2014, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

      At my school the never thought us capital cursives, we had printing capitals with lower case cursives

  5. Thorbjørn
    Thorbjørn
    April 14, 2014, 3:04 am | # | Reply

    And yet, the hipsters will probably keep cursive alive.

    At least until it’s hip to do so – then it will truly die.

  6. c1dancer
    c1dancer
    April 14, 2014, 4:00 am | # | Reply

    This year it has been taken off all school curriculum. It needs to be replaced with 10 finger keyboarding skills since 1) all students will be required to test via a computer of some sort, and 2) most students already computer literate type with one finger/stylus or with their thumbs only.

  7. Pushpak
    Pushpak
    April 14, 2014, 4:49 am | # | Reply

    you know I have passed half my exams in life due to my bad cursive writing, my teachers couldn’t understand half of what I wrote and use to pass me just to be on safe side…

  8. wetcorps
    wetcorps
    April 14, 2014, 4:52 am | # | Reply

    You still won’t be able to read your doctor’s handwriting.

  9. Dave Dell
    Dave Dell
    April 14, 2014, 5:52 am | # | Reply

    Capital E. I can’t do a Capital E in cursive.

    • ASP
      ASP
      April 14, 2014, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

      . . . It’s just a backwards 3.

  10. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    April 14, 2014, 6:01 am | # | Reply

    Cursive’s dying? Can someone please the headteacher of my niece and nephew’s primary school? She’s just started forcing it on all the children! (I agree with the typing skills being far more important these days.)

    • Adam
      Adam
      April 14, 2014, 7:45 am | # | Reply

      I’m guessing this teacher is also trying to outlaw dancing within city limits. You give your niece and nephew some glitter and tell them to slide into class tomorrow, throw it in the air, and shout: “Let’s dance!” Then they should dance their fool heads off until the principal is called in.

      • euphgeek
        euphgeek
        April 14, 2014, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        It’s probably a good thing that I never had children, because I would probably follow this advice. It would be interesting to watch the principal’s face as I told him, “But an online cartoonist told me to have my child do that!”

        • Jeff Clough
          Jeff Clough
          April 14, 2014, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

          *LIKE*

    • YourWeirdUncle
      YourWeirdUncle
      April 14, 2014, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

      North Carolina recently passed a law requiring cursive be taught in elementary schools. Because some politician in Raleigh read on a blog that cursive was dying and was all “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!”

  11. Mahnarch
    Mahnarch
    April 14, 2014, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    If cursive dies out then how are future generations supposed to read a few important documents? Namely the ‘Declaration of Independence’ and ‘Constitution’?

    • Rerim
      Rerim
      April 14, 2014, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      We have transcriptions. Reading the original is nothing special. Also, if you WANT to, you can learn cursive on your own.

      • Mahnarch
        Mahnarch
        April 17, 2014, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

        What about when the machines rise up and delete all transcripts?

        • euphgeek
          euphgeek
          April 17, 2014, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

          At that point, I think that reading cursive will be the LEAST of our worries.

      • Chris Rivan
        Chris Rivan
        March 21, 2018, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

        Sorry, but I’m not okay with letting someone ELSE tell me what my rights are.

    • qka
      qka
      April 14, 2014, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

      The NSA and the rest of the government is busy making those documents irrelevant anyhow.

    • Fanta
      Fanta
      December 16, 2017, 9:22 pm | # | Reply

      I know cursive and I can barely read any of that. It’s basically a different script.

  12. Bob in Nashville
    Bob in Nashville
    April 14, 2014, 6:40 am | # | Reply

    No, it’s something racist in the language of Mordor, written in Elvish script.

  13. karine76
    karine76
    April 14, 2014, 7:30 am | # | Reply

    “Something Racist in Elvish” is a great LARP band name.

    • Jesse
      Jesse
      April 14, 2014, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      You know, that’s like the millionth time someone has called one of this comic’s quotes a good band name.

      • Some Guy
        Some Guy
        April 17, 2014, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

        Or the billionth time anything has been called a good band name.

  14. Kathy
    Kathy
    April 14, 2014, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    To me, cursive is only useful in signatures since it’s harder to forge.

    It annoys me to no end that, in earlier grades, we were taught cursive because they believed nothing else would be accepted in college. Now we’re in college and they want everything typed in Times New Roman.

    • Rhea
      Rhea
      April 14, 2014, 11:36 am | # | Reply

      My cursive signature was so illegible that it was often questioned, and I started scrawling in print instead. It’s still illegible, but nobody cares anymore, especially on those electronic credit-card boxes.

      But if you want to sign something with a flourish, it has to be in cursive!

  15. Eric
    Eric
    April 14, 2014, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    I love the first panel.

  16. TechyDad
    TechyDad
    April 14, 2014, 8:48 am | # | Reply

    Way back in elementary school, I was out sick when we learned upper case cursive As. To this day, I can’t write them.

    Oh, and cursive is useless for my signature. I sign it differently every time.

  17. John (Dawn)
    John (Dawn)
    April 14, 2014, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    In Finland we learn a completely different type of cursive that looks nothing like what those Q or Z in the last panel look like…

    The cursive they teach us is mostly recognazible to those who don’t know it as it resembles “normal” writing a lot. The biggest difference with it is the letter s, which looks like a Moomin character’s head.

  18. Codric
    Codric
    April 14, 2014, 9:30 am | # | Reply

    I was forced to learn cursive in elementary school, and some day just thought “what the hell is this?” and just stopped, and at that point, nobody ever cared or complained. Most people I know don’t use it either. (Well, I do have one friend who uses it.)

    Adam, you do realise dozens of people will wish you a “fludy bortsnip” on your next birthday?

    • Adam
      Adam
      April 14, 2014, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      The thought had occurred to me. What’s worse is that I never my strips so I’ll be totally confused when it happens. I’ll probably assume that everyone suffered the same kind of stroke.

      • Rat
        Rat
        April 14, 2014, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

        You forgot remember.

        *runs away sniggering*

      • Korbl
        Korbl
        April 14, 2014, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

        There were two subjects in elementary thatI refused to believe would ever be necessary for me to know: Cursive and the Metric system.

        While it seems I was right on both counts (given that I’m not a STEM student), I do recant my earlier refusal to learn metric, since I do think that it should just become the world’s primary measurement system everywhere (as opposed to everywhere but for a handful-ish of countries).

  19. Mary
    Mary
    April 14, 2014, 11:27 am | # | Reply

    I write in cursive, weird Q’s and Z’s included. I find it natural, but I get comments on my handwriting about once a week. I’ve been told it’s surprisingly legible.

  20. Jeff Clough
    Jeff Clough
    April 14, 2014, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

    I CAN write quite legibly in cursive (born in the late 50s), but don’t. No one can read it except old goats like myself, so…I took typing (not keyboarding, not in the mid-70s anyways) in 10th grade and fell right back into it when computers became all the rage.
    I do a respectful 35 wpm…

  21. Izzie
    Izzie
    April 15, 2014, 8:06 am | # | Reply

    OMG. I LOL’d on the inside when it said “…and something racist in Elvish?” Wait. No, that says the F word in Elvish.

  22. VaguelyCreepy
    VaguelyCreepy
    April 16, 2014, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Adam, creating nonsense words is its own unique art, and I do believe you are a grand master of it. Everything about “Fludy Bortsnip” makes it an amazing set of not-words, from the look to (what I assume is) the pronunciation.

    Do you teach classes?

    • Adam
      Adam
      April 16, 2014, 7:40 am | # | Reply

      No, but what a great idea. I could be like Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver – except swap math for gibberish.

  23. ElectricKaibutsu
    ElectricKaibutsu
    April 16, 2014, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    Do they still make students write in cursive on the SATs? I remember before the test you had to write something about promising not to cheat in cursive. I was so slow that by the time I finished writing everyone was looking at me :(.

  24. GeekGirlND
    GeekGirlND
    April 16, 2014, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

    This whole comic was A+!

    • Adam
      Adam
      April 16, 2014, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks!

  25. oh hai
    oh hai
    April 18, 2014, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

    Oh my gosh, this is THE BEST THING
    and totally one of my favorites so far.
    Something racist in Elvish… beautiful.

    • Adam
      Adam
      April 18, 2014, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks!

  26. jim
    jim
    April 27, 2014, 11:53 am | # | Reply

    True story: When I was in elementary school, the teacher said that we’re too dumb to ever learn how to write a cursive x, so we should just do a half-assed print/cursive hybrid.

    Since “half-assed print/cursive hybrid” describes my handwriting perfectly these days, I think she was right.

  27. Phallomancer
    Phallomancer
    July 29, 2014, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, but you’re all forgetting one distinct advantage that cursive has: You don’t have to lift your pen off the paper anywhere near as much. It’s an excellent writing style for the perpetually lazy.

  28. Kasran
    Kasran
    October 22, 2014, 11:00 pm | # | Reply

    You lost me at Fludy Bortsnip. :’D

  29. SchAlternate
    SchAlternate
    January 1, 2015, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Curse all of those ours spent in school writing the same stupid cursive letter over and over until you fill an entire page, and do the same with every goddamn letter in the alphabet and whatever other squiggle they throw at you until your wrist burns out.

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