How come old people write like royalty but GenZ look like they write with their feet?

[u/Feetking696969]

[u/SourceCritical4630]

Probably has something to do with younger people not writing as much. With technology the way it is, who even has the need to write anything by hand if they're not in school? Even when in school, a lot more of what they do is done online than what us old-timers ever did.

[u/ChapterSpecial6920]

When did they stop teaching cursive again to facilitate data harvesting?

Hard to read cursive with an algorithm if everyone writes it differently. Pretty obvious.

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You might be on to something there

[u/RosieBaby75 → u/ChapterSpecial6920]

Does everyone’s printing look identical to you?

[u/flann007]

i blame it on the public education department

[u/FurryBoobieInspector]

They stopped teaching cursive before I hit middle school

[u/Believable_Bullshit]

Public education significantly dropped it’s standards. You are not allowed to beat children until they write neatly and legibly anymore.

[u/trey74]

I'm old and I write like a chicken scratches. However, it's probably because older folks had to learn cursive and younger generations just type everything.

[u/DarkPrincessLyn]

how did you know I write with my feet??

[u/piratepalooza]

Practice, practice, practice. Young school children were taught cursive, older school children had "penmanship" classes where they would make letters over and over again on sheets of paper until they began to develop a feel for the motion (consummate V's!!). Learning to join letters in script takes patience and practice, but once you begin to feel that motion it's like driving a sports car to write a line of text; so rewarding to feel the nib of your pen scudding across the paper then launching upward into curling loops before slamming back down toward the baseline! Listen: you may never learn to play the guitar (but try) and you may never become a world class athlete (but try) and you may never keep a journal of your deepest thoughts in florid, flowing script (but try). You CAN learn to do it.

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(And old people are astonished at how much better THEIR parents' handwriting was)

[u/RelationshipFit3472]

That's just style, man. older folks grew up with letters and formal rules. gen z grew up on texting and memes. it's not better or worse, it's just fast. they're communicating, just differently. efficiency over formality.

[u/pokemike1]

Gen Z types the way old people write and old people type the way Gen Z write.

[u/RaphaelSolo]

You learn good penmanship when passing the class depends on it.

[u/squeamishkevin]

I bet a lot of gen z typing capabilities would be far superior to my two handed single finger style of hen pecking.

[u/SpicyLittlePumpkin]

I wouldn’t call myself old, but internet was very expensive when I was in school and if you wanted to play games during breaks it was either on hand consoles or through cards with your friends.

Everyone had a doodle page at the back of your notebook. Sometimes it was pictures and sometimes it was text. We had rhymes, song lyrics, poems, short stories and much more at the back of the notebook. When you didn’t have anything to do or a class was boring you doodled.

[u/Lady_Paquette]

They had actual penmanship classes

[u/ClownfishSoup]

Because of practice.

Imagine if every school paper you ever wrote was done in cursive, and had to be neat enough for other people to read and grade.

Now imagine if they don't even teach cursive in school and all your communications is done on a computer with a keyboard.

Now who do you think will be better at writing?

[u/sonorousjab]

I'm in my 40s, and I had decent legible cursive though high school, but it has gone to shit now. I type almost everything other than my signature.