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To: impimp

Earlier this month, you wrote “I care about the long term strength of the US Constitution”.

And now “Cursive is a waste of time.”?

Huh? The “long term strength” of a document depends on us being able to read it, not listen to some lefty tell us “what it really means”.


39 posted on 12/23/2016 5:36:52 AM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: QBFimi

I don’t know...to me, reading cursive and writing it are (to me) two different things.

Writing cursive is akin to knowing a language.

Reading cursive is akin to simple interpolation-kind of like knowing Spanish, and being able to noodle out the meaning of something in Italian or French that you don’t know, simply because you know Spanish.

Cursive can be so variable, but...after your figure out how someone makes their “e” and “i” and so on, then you just hit a word you can’t immediately figure out, and you interpret it contextually, and you have that figured out.

I guess I completely understand why people don’t write it, I just don’t understand why someone can’t read it.


57 posted on 12/23/2016 5:49:05 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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