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[Awaclus]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

That's, right, Z.  Stick that in your function and iterate it.  You chaotic monster!

Zee or Zed?

Tset.

[Cuzz]

I started crossing z's when I first learned complex analysis. To do otherwise is madness.

I know a professor who even requires it from students in a section of his syllabus. 

[Kirian]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

That's, right, Z.  Stick that in your function and iterate it.  You chaotic monster!

Zee or Zed?

Tset.

[Axxle]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

That's, right, Z.  Stick that in your function and iterate it.  You chaotic monster!

Zee or Zed?

Tset.

[eHalcyon]

Some interesting stuff about shady Facebook practices.

[qmech]

I can recommend most of what Veritasium does.

[Titandrake]

I decided on a whim to play an Osu song that I always failed within 10 seconds, and somehow cleared the entire rest of the song blind.

It's so nice to realize I'm actually getting better at this game.

[dondon151]

I always write my z's in cursive...

[Lekkit]

I draw my x's in two strokes. First a / then cross it with a \. Z's uncrossed. 7's crossed. 1's without serifs. I also write in capital letters only, so no curves at the bottom of my t's. And I don't like math. At all.

[pingpongsam]

I write in print, no cursive. My cursive is illegible. My print is very good though never straight at the bottom. My print used to be illegible and I only wrote in cursive until I went to engineering school.

[Witherweaver]

I write in print, no cursive. My cursive is illegible. My print is very good though never straight at the bottom. My print used to be illegible and I only wrote in cursive until I went to engineering school.

I have yet to find a reason for cursive.  Except maybe to make your signature more unique?  But even so, signatures aren't really cursive, rather any style of writing you happen to come up with, though usually based on cursive in some way.  I think they just ran out of stuff to teach us in school.

[pingpongsam]

http://www.newamericancursive.com/learncursive

[Witherweaver]

http://www.newamericancursive.com/learncursive

#2 reason to use cursive is to increase your ability to read cursive :/

[eHalcyon]

http://www.newamericancursive.com/learncursive

I think #1 also applies to printing. #2 is kind of begging the question. Citation needed for most of the rest. And 6 and 8 kind of conflict.

And 7 seems false to me. It says that cursive is easier to read, but then many teachers actively ban cursive on assignments.

[pingpongsam]

Citation needed for most of the rest.

It clearly says the reasons are well documented. I'm not sure what more you could be asking for...

[Witherweaver]

Citation needed for most of the rest.

It clearly says the reasons are well documented. I'm not sure what more you could be asking for...

It didn't say it in cursive, though, so I had trouble reading it.

[Kirian]

One of the reasons I have heard is that young people won't have the ability to read old documents and letters written in cursive.  To which the obvious reply is that any of those documents that are actually important have been digitized.

[AHoppy]

New American cursive looks harder than when I learned cursive in school... I mean, they made capital T and F and Z easier, but really they're just print...

I use cursive when I'm writing letters (yeah, I still do that.  LDR) because I think it works nice in that format.  But that's about it. 

[Witherweaver]

New American cursive looks harder than when I learned cursive in school... I mean, they made capital T and F and Z easier, but really they're just print...

I use cursive when I'm writing letters (yeah, I still do that.  LDR) because I think it works nice in that format.  But that's about it.

Could you use cursive to reply in that Mafia game?!

[Kirian]

I actually use a weird print-cursive hybrid when I write.  It's more legible than any cursive I know and much faster to write.  My signature might as well just be scribbles though.

[sudgy]

I actually use a weird print-cursive hybrid when I write.  It's more legible than any cursive I know and much faster to write.  My signature might as well just be scribbles though.

My mom writes like that too.


Also, darn you all, I got self-conscious on my science test today and started writing my t differently...

[Witherweaver]

I actually use a weird print-cursive hybrid when I write.  It's more legible than any cursive I know and much faster to write.  My signature might as well just be scribbles though.

I write in a random mix of uppercase and lowercase print, whichever is easier for my hand/brain at the time.

[markusin]

I learned cursive in elementary school. Once I got the hang of it, life was great. Legible handwriting was never my strong point, but at least with cursive I could easily tell where one word ended and another started. With print writing, you had to find spaces that were slightly larger than the spaces between letters. Lame.

In recent years, print-writing has corrupted my autopilot. I swear I've caught myself switching from cursive to print or vice-versa mid sentence. Luckily, pretty much the only time I'm handwriting is when taking personal notes in class. There is a major shift towards digitization.

Interestingly enough, in Canada they want to stop teaching cursive. Here's a starter link that I couldn't be bothered to read more than a paragraph of:
http://www.todaysparent.com/family/education/cursive-writing-in-schools/

You know what else they tried teaching in my elementary school? How to type without looking at the keyboard, index fingers on F and J style. Never got the hang of that. I type so much faster when I look at the keyboard and type freestyle, mostly with my index fingers.

Does anyone here type without looking at the keyboard?

[Witherweaver]

I learned cursive in elementary school. Once I got the hang of it, life was great. Legible handwriting was never my strong point, but at least with cursive I could easily tell where one word ended and another started. With print writing, you had to find spaces that were slightly larger than the spaces between letters. Lame.

In recent years, print-writing has corrupted my autopilot. I swear I've caught myself switching from cursive to print or vice-versa mid sentence. Luckily, pretty much the only time I'm handwriting is when taking personal notes in class. There is a major shift towards digitization.

Interestingly enough, in Canada they want to stop teaching cursive. Here's a starter link that I couldn't be bothered to read more than a paragraph of:
http://www.todaysparent.com/family/education/cursive-writing-in-schools/

You know what else they tried teaching in my elementary school? How to type without looking at the keyboard, index fingers on F and J style. Never got the hang of that. I type so much faster when I look at the keyboard and type freestyle, mostly with my index fingers.

Does anyone here type without looking at the keyboard?

Yes, exclusively.

[sudgy]

Does anyone here type without looking at the keyboard?

Ooh!  Me!