• Guntrigger@feddit.ch
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    7 months ago

    It wasn’t meant to be insulting to Americans, the hate for learning to join up letters and write quickly just doesn’t really make sense to the rest of us.

    You know what’s stupid and fucking ignorant? Assuming everyone has a laptop on them all the time. Do people really not write notes anymore? Handwriting notes is much more conducive to learning than typing and is a basic skill that aids education at all levels.

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      7 months ago

      It wasn’t meant to be insulting to Americans, the hate for learning to join up letters and write quickly just doesn’t really make sense to the rest of us.

      Lol this is like the best example of pissing on my foot and telling me it’s raining.

      You know what’s stupid and fucking ignorant? Assuming everyone has a laptop on them all the time.

      And if I had argued that we shouldn’t need to learn cursive because everyone has a laptop all the time, this wouldn’t be a completely fucking stupid argument. Alas, I did not.

      I also almost never write in cursive and know how. I can count on one hand how many times in my life I was like “oh crap! I should switch over to cursive to save some time!” and I lost all the fingers on that hand in a freak grenade accident (joking).

      This is especially stupid because I actually support kids learning cursive. It’s just a skill that is much less important than it was 50 years ago and so I don’t particularly care either way if kids learn it.

      You can just admit you were wrong, its much easier than trying to pile on more nonsense to justify the ignorant insult.

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        7 months ago

        I was wrong about what exactly? My facetious point about American and World views on the matter? I still think it was on point despite not being 100% serious.

        It’s absolutely commonplace in the UK to learn this at an extremely young age and not something that “takes up valuable learning time”. It seems weird not to learn it. How about we don’t learn how to paint either because most people don’t have use for watercolours in their daily life?

        I think the fact I’m being down voted by the Americans who don’t want to learn cursive is kind of a hilarious confirmation.

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          7 months ago

          There’s no need to learn cursive, it serves no functional purpose that typing cannot match. Other than your signature, which… you have to learn how to do separate to cursive anyway to protect yourself from fraud by making it as unique and as difficult to replicate as possible.

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            7 months ago

            Good luck typing something when you have no electronic device nearby or no power. I know we live in a connected, techno-cebtric world now, but it’s wild to think that this simple skill is no longer valued at all by some.

            Also, your signature being the thing protecting you from fraud is quite hilarious from a European perspective too!