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I'm really tired by all of these click-bait articles essentially saying my entire generation is retarded. I can read cursive, where's your god now?

Seriously though, if at all this might be an American thing. Here in Germany we definitely had lessons on cursive writing. I write cursive. Hell even most lined school notebooks for children start with a page that has cursive writing in it, so that children can train on it.

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> saying my entire generation is retarded.

As a middle stage millennial, we too were once considered retarded. But now we control the media, so it's time to pay it forward.

Seriously though, the article's point about the loss of this skill will result in a knowledge access issue is ridiculous. Anyone who's reading these source materials in cursive should be able to pick it up without too much effort.

The focus on cursive seems to be very American.

I really don’t understand why people think that joined up writing isn’t useful any more. Don’t people note things down and want to do it faster that writing out each letter separately?

I might be wrong about this but I think cursive is a very specific style in America, whereas in the UK "joined up writing" is less restrictive. Maybe that's why they make such a big deal about it. Probably why it has such a clumsy childish name here too - nobody talks about it as an adult because it's just "handwriting".

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