Can You Read Cursive?

[sherbs]

I went to a Lawyer Office with a will written in cursive by my father. I was told by the legal secretary I would have to translate to print as she could not read cursive. Are there a lot of people out there who can not read cursive? Never gave it any thought until Friday.

 

[vonclod]

I don't think they teach it in many schools anymore..pretty sad, I guess they cant even read your constitution either..thats really lame.
Personally I think a person would have to be pretty stunned stupid to not be able to figure it out.

 

[sherbs]

I would have thought the same. This girl was around 25, my son is 30 and he was taught cursive, so not sure what the cut off is. So much family history will be lost if relatives can not read cursive, even something simple like recipes.

 

[vonclod]

I would have thought the same. This girl was around 25, my son is 30 and he was taught cursive, so not sure what the cut off is.

My nieces and nephews are in high school presently and have not learned it..they can for the most part read it though.
I'm guessing it has gone by the wayside in the last 10 years, I did look it up, and it seems some schools are bringing it back.

 

[UncleJohn]

If the legal secretary can't read cursive I wonder about the lawyer she works for. It's kind of scary to me!

 

[soze]

Wow, never realized the younger ones might not be taught cursive. What do they do for signatures then? It could be they just don't want to make any mistakes with a will, as print would definitely be more legible for a legal document.

 

[vonclod]

If the legal secretary can't read cursive I wonder about the lawyer she works for. It's kind of scary to me!

Someone should throw some shorthand at her:ror:..not that I can read that

 

[sherbs]

Wow, never realized the younger ones might not be taught cursive. What do they do for signatures then? It could be they just don't want to make any mistakes with a will, as print would definitely be more legible for a legal document.

The secretary claims she was taught to sign her name cursive.

 

[sherbs]

Someone should throw some shorthand at her:ror:..not that I can read that

It is a satellite office for a 4 lawyer law firm. There is a older secretary that also works in it but she is retiring. In my area good employees are tuff to come by most of them work for the State or Federal prison system or the State developmental units.

 

[vonclod]

I'm probably being a bit harsh to say someone is stupid if they cant figure it out, it just seems fairly intuitive to me.
I learned to read it on my own as soon as I could read.

 

[sherbs]

I'm probably being a bit harsh to say someone is stupid if they cant figure it out, it just seems fairly intuitive to me.
I learned to read it on my own as soon as I could read.

I thought the same. I figured it maybe my fathers penmanship but the other lady said she can't read any cursive. As I just looked to my left I see the front cover of a book I was looking at is cursive. Not old either, printed in 2015.

 

[vonclod]

It is a satellite office for a 4 lawyer law firm. There is a older secretary that also works in it but she is retiring. In my area good employees are tuff to come by most of them work for the State or Federal prison system or the State developmental units.

Hard to find good work ethic.

The times, they are a changin..I'm not sure where we are heading but there is too much reliance on technology.

 

[vonclod]

I thought the same. I figured it maybe my fathers penmanship but the other lady said she can't read any cursive.

I think it's just laziness for the most part, but as another poster noted, you definitely need to get a legal document correct.

 

[cmbscx10]

Hmmm unless she is illiterate or blind i just cannot see it. Or unless your dad's will writer came over in the 1600's. Every letter is the same just with little flair.



Unless you sign your name like a 2yo EVERYONE signs there name in some form of cursive.


Shoot i am 45 and remember when the taught calligraphy. Hated that crap with the weird pen.


I guess just ask for someone who is over 40 and still has a flip cell phone and you should be good.

 

[sherbs]

What's scary is I worked in a prison for 28 years, all my incident reports were written in cursive. What if years down the road a inmate sues, will anybody be able to read them?

 

[sherbs]

Hmmm unless she is illiterate or blind i just cannot see it. Or unless your dad's will writer came over in the 1600's. Every letter is the same just with little flair.



Unless you sign your name like a 2yo EVERYONE signs there name in some form of cursive.


Shoot i am 45 and remember when the taught calligraphy. Hated that crap with the weird pen.


I guess just ask for someone who is over 40 and still has a flip cell phone and you should be good.

I'm with you, the older secretary had no issues. The girl who could not read it said she never had cursive in school except to sigh her name.
I am over 40 and have one flip phone and a smart phone, there are many places where I live that cell coverage does not exist. My wife carries the smart phone and I the flip in the winter. Any distance trips we are together so she has the modern phone.

 

[UncleJohn]

We were taught to write in cursive back in elementary school. That was a few years ago, back in the stone age.

Dylan was right, "The times they are a changin'"

 

[davis53]

I went to a Lawyer Office with a will written in cursive by my father. I was told by the legal secretary I would have to translate to print as she could not read cursive. Are there a lot of people out there who can not read cursive? Never gave it any thought until Friday.

Get another lawyer, they are just jacking up the time to charge you.

 

[sherbs]

Get another lawyer, they are just jacking up the time to charge you.

Actually it's a freebie, the older lady in the office is a friend of my wife. Just making the will legal.

 

[struhall]

I'm 33 and I can read and write cursive but my handwriting is terrible in print or cursive. My wife writes cursive more than print so I have to be able to read it to know what she wrote down.

My oldest is 10 and they are learning cursive in school next year. It's part of the curriculum at our school. If they were not going to teach it we were going to do it ourselves.