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Daneel_today at 10:53 AM5 repliesview on HN

I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.


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psychoslavetoday at 11:12 AM

That's not generational. Living in France I can ensure you that in primary school, kids still learn and use cursive as main writing system. I wasn't even aware anyone would use anything else to write by hand in Latin script.

I'm curious to get information about how people write elsewhere and how does it look.

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tazjintoday at 10:57 AM

It is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in cursive (and learnt that in school). I'm in my 30s.

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antonyhtoday at 11:29 AM

Conversely I don't know anyone who doesn't write in cursive. It's still taught in schools in the UK, and I still write with it and actively aim to improve.

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Angosturatoday at 11:23 AM

Still taught in uk primary schools as the fastest way to get words down in paper

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BoredPositrontoday at 11:00 AM

It's more cultural than generational.

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