Social Science Running writing

[Dont be a lemon]

Does anybody do it? I haven't bothered since a couple years after finishing high school, probably because computer use has made it seem old fashioned. Now seven years later my housemate leaves messages in it and I have to say reading more than a line of it is reallyannoying. I have to keenly pay attention to comprehend it with all the extra lines and loops! Is my brain dying?

Discuss.

 

[BALKAN]

I've never heard an adult call it 'running writing'

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Calling it running writing seems old fashioned. Had to google what it was, you mean cursive yeah?

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Calling it running writing seems old fashioned. Had to google what it was, you mean cursive yeah?

Wikipedia accepts both terms.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

I don't think it's necessarily old fashioned, I guess it depends when you're a kid and what sort of writing you tend to write. I remember as a kid, I think the school sort of implied that it was cursive writing or nothing which was weird.

I write cursive if I'm jotting down notes, as I write the fastest with it, but it can be pretty ineligible to, I'd say, everyone apart from me. If I'm writing neatly, I hardly use cursive.

 

[Gough]

I use it, My Gran taught me to write before I started school and she taught me cursive. It caused no end of hassles with teachers who wanted to teach me to print. But it stuck and I still use it to this day.

 

[SugarShane]

Agreed it can be annoying to read. My handwriting goes from "not quite perfect yet tantalisingly attractive" in block writing to "teenager drawing pubic hair" in linked/cursive/running.

I never bothered to get better at it though because my print was fine otherwise.
All i heard in school was;
Year 2 - You better practice linked script because it's all they accept in Primary School.
Year 5 - You better practice linked script because it's all they accept in Year 6 and 7.
Year 7 - You better practice linked script because it's all they accept in High School.

Then you get to High School and the teachers are like "LIGAF."

 

[UmpiringFooty]

Yes. I still do journal entries as it helps to keep my mind sane every day. My handwriting is shithouse though.

 

[Breva_]

Yes. I still do journal entries as it helps to keep my mind sane every day. My handwriting is shithouse though.

It's not working....

 

[Kram]

It caused no end of hassles with teachers who wanted to teach me to print. But it stuck and I still use it to this day.

Had the opposite, teachers had to force some kids (mostly boys) into using it in latter Primary School years with the justification of "Your arm will feel like falling off printing when you get older and have to complete long English exams." Personally I rarely wrote anything in cursive when going to High School and absolutely nothing as an adult.

 

[Igloo]

Never heard the term "running writing" before. Came into thread thinking it was some new fad where people write while they go for a run.

But yes, I write in cursive.

 

[Cruyff14]

Have always written in joined writing and always will.

 

[JD11]

i wish i could do it, instead i write like a computer with every letter spread out.

i try to do it and its just a jumbled mess.

 

[Impunity!]

Yes. I still do journal entries as it helps to keep my mind sane every day. My handwriting is shithouse though.

I wish to buy the rights to these journals. It is eminently likely that they will one day be considered the greatest work of fiction ever written.

 

[Dagless]

Jump between them

MEANT to write in print/preferably all caps
Scribble in revolting cursive that even I can't read
When I take my time it's pretty nice/neat handwriting

 

[RU486]

Never heard the term "running writing" before. But yes, I write in cursive.

Never knew what cursive writing was before I entered this thread!

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I thought "cursive" was the Seppos word for it. Not that I'd call it "running writing" at my age either. I'm not actually sure what I would call it, but that's OK because I can't think of any reason I'd want to have a conversation about it.

 

[Thistle]

Born in the UK I also call it running writing (you are sane OP). Still use it today as it was how we were brought up in school, block writing was unheard of until I came here. Find running a lot faster and fluent but it is pretty messy if the person doesn't have decent handwriting.

 

[Breva_]

Yes. I still do journal entries as it helps to keep my mind sane every day. My handwriting is shithouse though.

UmpiringFooty I find you are more of a cursing writer than a cursive writer.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Sooz's diary will almost certainly end up in an internet museum one day.

His forum, probably not so much.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

I thought "cursive" was the Seppos word for it. Not that I'd call it "running writing" at my age either. I'm not actually sure what I would call it, but that's OK because I can't think of any reason I'd want to have a conversation about it.

Everyone calls it cursive

 

[quin_stick]

Mine's a bordering-on-illegible mix of cursive and print.

On a related note, does anyone else forget how to write certain letters/numbers when you think about it too much? I only really hand-write in exams/tests these days and sometimes I just forget which way something goes or just forget all together...

 

[Papa Juggs]

We were taught this in like grade 4 in Darwin.

I was very neat while the teachers were cracking down on "bad handwriting" but it was slow.

Get to high school then you're allowed to go at full messy speed.

As if you'd get anything done by printing.

Perhaps I'm so old I remember the days before you did all your assignments with a keyboard.

 

[The_Reaper]

Wikipedia accepts both terms.

Wikipedia accepts Straya as a valid way of searching for Australia

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

I have literally never heard of 'running writing' before, haha.

I don't think I've written in cursive since grade four.