USA Today
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word.
Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents are in need of transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority of them are handwritten in cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of penmanship.
“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Issacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington D.C. More
They forgot this scene when they filmed “Idiocracy”.
I learned how to read and write cursive in early grade school, guessing that is no longer the case.
Cut the stuff. How do they sign their names, or do they just “make their mark” in the presence of two witnesses?
Is driving a manual transmission required?
Yet another thing Millennials are destroying. Guess there’s no app for that
What, nobody uses cursive when writing checks???
Oh that’s right, they just use the automated deductions so it becomes easier for accounts being hacked.
And then he said, “Are there any manual transmissions in cars anymore? Think I might google that one…
Here ya go…
Acura Integra
Aston Martin Valour
BMW M2
BMW M3
BMW M4
BMW Z4
Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing
Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing
Chevrolet Camaro
Ford Mustang
Honda Civic
Hyundai Elantra N
Kia Forte
Lotus Emira
Mazda 3
Mazda MX-5 Miata
Mini Hardtop and Convertible
Nissan Versa
Nissan Z
Porsche 718
Porsche 911
Subaru BRZ
Subaru WRX
Toyota GR86
Toyota GR Corolla
Toyota GR Supra
Volkswagen Golf
Volkswagen Jetta
Bought a manual transmission Camry in 2005. Actually had a coupon from a local dealership that made it only $5000 more than our 10 year old Corolla. Fully made in Japan. Not a SINGLE RECALL on the car while millions of automatics made in Tennessee have been recalled for everything under the sun. Better than The Club at keeping the jackers, etc away.
So do kids graduating nowadays write in crayon.
I had a “coworker” who complained about teaching cursive, asking why bother. I not only learned cursive, but I had to practice it over and over and over in school.
My first truck- a 1956 Chevy panel, 265″ V8 and Hydramatic 4spd (!).
Drove that truck across the country. Twice.
But when that trans died, we bolted in an SM 420.
It was still going strong years later when I sold it.
I’ve been writing in cursive since at least the early 60’s, so what’s their excuse. And if I put hand and mind to it, I am good at calligraphy as well. It’s been a while, but I can probably still do it. I used to write letters home when I was in the Navy with a fountain pen (I love fountain pens) and took notes in college in the late 70’s and early 80’s and tests with a fountain pen, all in cursive.
Schools could stop acting like pedophiles and start teaching again.
Cursive lessons could end with a project reading and transcribing old documents.
😂
Jethro, this scene might be appropriate –
https://youtu.be/6tBGP7V8CuI
@geoff and Beachmom, your post got me thinking and I believe I have hit upon an novel solution for the National Archive. Why don’t they team up with schools to reintroduce cursive into basic education by providing the text they need help transcribing to classes and give awards / recognition to those students who have learned cursive enough to do the work. I’m going to try to send them an email tomorrow suggesting just that.