[exDemMom]

Your brain works better and thinks about language in a better way when you learn to write cursive. Same foes for learning a foreign language you are unlikely to use.

I do not use cursive because I learned a foreign language.

As a teen, I used cursive and print interchangeably. Then I went to France for my senior year of high school (incidentally avoiding having to spend another year as Adam Schiff’s classmate). French cursive is significantly different than American cursive, and no one could read my cursive. So I printed. And I have never gone back to using cursive. Cursive is hard to read anyway, especially when people write sloppily.

[Dr. Sivana]

Cursive is hard to read anyway, especially when people write sloppily.

Sometimes it is the only way, though. When I got word that a girl I knew well in college had gotten a bad case of stomach cancer in her 40s and would be dying within a few weeks, neither an email nor a typed, word-processed laser print would do the job.

I forced myself with my bad computer guy penmanship to write a letter, three pages of cursive. She called before the end, and getting a hand-written letter made a difference. More recently my 80 year old godmother passed, and I used cursive to write a short note to my godfather on the sympathy card. It works better than manuscript.

For personal use I do print by had, outside of checks and signatures on legal documents.