Johnson & Johnson is getting rid of its script logo after more than 130 years

[rightwinger]

I learned cursive in third grade.
My penmanship was not that bad but was not very neat.

By sixth grade, I reverted to block letters. I had very neat writing in block letters and teachers liked it better

Never used cursive again except my signature and even that became more illegible

 

[SweetSue92]

I learned cursive in third grade.
My penmanship was not that bad but was not very neat.

By sixth grade, I reverted to block letters. I had very neat writing in block letters and teachers liked it better

Never used cursive again except my signature and even that became more illegible

Same. I started printing in middle school and never went back.

 

[1srelluc]

And I made a great case for why we don't spend more than a couple weeks on cursive, and also, why conservatives shouldn't attempt to conserve everything.

Seems to me you just want to trample all over our venerated traditions and observances.

 

[SweetSue92]

Seems to me you just want to trample all over our venerated traditions and observances.

Ha! I give you the cursive Q. I mean....

 

[1srelluc]

Ha! I give you the cursive Q. I mean....

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[Foxfyre]

Reading cursive is not like reading a foreign language, esp not one as foreign as Hebrew, where they read right to left.

We just don't need to spend more than a couple weeks on cursive anymore. Honestly, the cursive debate is a picture-perfect analogy of why schools can't win. We are told all the time to focus on the three R's...but also, please make my child fluent in this longform handwriting no one reads or writes anymore. Just because, I don't know, it makes me feel good?

That's your opinion. But I'm pretty darn sure learning how to write cursive is not why schools are failing.

 

[rightwinger]

More kids today know how to type on a keyboard than write cursive. Kids a generation ago did not

It is a more valuable life skill

 

[Carl in Michigan]

New Logo looks like it was designed by someone with Microsoft Word

They paid someone for that?

They're appealing to YOUR people. It's the best they can do

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Reading cursive is not like reading a foreign language, esp not one as foreign as Hebrew, where they read right to left.

We just don't need to spend more than a couple weeks on cursive anymore. Honestly, the cursive debate is a picture-perfect analogy of why schools can't win. We are told all the time to focus on the three R's...but also, please make my child fluent in this longform handwriting no one reads or writes anymore. Just because, I don't know, it makes me feel good?

Why cursive writing is good for the brain?

Not only is cursive good for speed of writing, but it also is shown to improve brain development in the areas of thinking, language and working memory. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and typing.Mar 31, 2021

 

[rightwinger]

Why cursive writing is good for the brain?

Not only is cursive good for speed of writing, but it also is shown to improve brain development in the areas of thinking, language and working memory. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and typing.Mar 31, 2021

Nobody learns to write in shorthand either

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Ha! I give you the cursive Q. I mean....

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I've seen it written like that, but THIS is how I learned the letters. It wasn't that hard.

Something is being lost losing these things so easily. We aren't a better people for it

 

[hjmick]

probably how it went...

1) Spend $75,000 on a Marketing firm to "design" new logo.
2) After 3 months and 30 examples...
They went with the original color. And chose Arial, pretty much the most popular font on the planet.

I would have gone with Comic Sans MS...

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Nobody learns to write in shorthand either

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Damn. I was looking for a cursive script. It's not an available choice here

 

[SweetSue92]

That's your opinion. But I'm pretty darn sure learning how to write cursive is not why schools are failing.

No. But when they can't read, write or do math--for many reasons--why take time to learn a dying writing style?

 

[SweetSue92]

I've seen it written like that, but THIS is how I learned the letters. It wasn't that hard.

Something is being lost losing these things so easily. We aren't a better people for it

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So. Should we never have moved on from Old English? Which is basically unreadable these days?

Do you just want kids to learn this because you did?

 

[Carl in Michigan]

So. Should we never have moved on from Old English? Which is basically unreadable these days?

Do you just want kids to learn this because you did?

Where I work, we've had kids (early 20s):who can't read a clock.

And you see nothing wrong.

I posted studies about the benefits of learning cursive. It really ain't hard. I remember learning cursive. I could pretty much read it without "training "

I want kids to be able to read and write a very common script. Like I said, I could see the letter and pretty much read it before I was taught to wright it. It trains the brain. And it ain't hard

Yet here you are. Arguing for the dumbing down of a generation.

The Great Cursive Writing Debate | NEA

Cursive has made a comeback in many school districts, but not everyone agrees that it belongs in an already packed curriculum.

www.nea.org

 

[Foxfyre]

No. But when they can't read, write or do math--for many reasons--why take time to learn a dying writing style?

In my opinion it should not be a dying writing style. I would far rather see children learning that--it doesn't take a lot of time and effort to learn--rather than spending time on total crap like CRT or sexually explicit gender studies. Even in a high tech world, there is room for pencil and paper and everybody should know how to write coherently.

 

[Foxfyre]

Where I work, we've had kids (early 20s):who can't read a clock.

And you see nothing wrong.

I posted studies about the benefits of learning cursive. It really ain't hard. I remember learning cursive. I could pretty much read it without "training "

Yet here you are. Arguing for the dumbing down of a generation.

I was conversing with five 30 somethings recently and not one of them could tell time from an analog clock.

 

[rightwinger]

I was conversing with five 30 somethings recently and not one of them could tell time from an analog clock.

Do they know Roman Numerals?

 

[Foxfyre]

Do they know Roman Numerals?

Everybody should know the basic Roman numerals in my opinion, at least ability to count to maybe 20 or so.