[dasboot]

Correct about the applications; but the skills developed in cursive are transferrable to printing. Correct grip, for example, is necessary for all renderings by the hand.

Additionally, I review many job applications. These particular ones do not indicate the preferred method of filling it out, and many are in cursive. An applicant that renders in the hand of a grammar-school student--whether cursive or print-- is under suspicion. It's like having stinky armpits at an interview.

[Rodney King]

OK. Well, its not like I am an anti-cursive activist. I never even thought about it until this thread. Nor have I ever filled out a job-application form, as I have always just emailed a resume and a cover letter. The fact is though, that I have never used cursive since school.

I also rarely get letters in cursive, and when I do I often find them hard to read. Not because I can't read cursive, but because cursive is so different from one person to the next.