Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature?

• mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On the flip side, there’s validity in doing things just for the aesthetics of it and we sacrifice too much to the ever present drive for efficiency.

  Cursive isn’t necessarily the banner we should all really behind for that though handwriting something is still shown as one of the best ways to remember something.

  As a fan of fountain pens and handwritten letters it is nice to get one knowing someone put that effort into it.

  I dunno where I’m going with any of this. Teachers and schools are underfunded, if kids are fucked it’s our fault don’t blame them, fancy squiggles are fun.

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• Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think there’s validity in learning/teaching cursive, if you’re proficient it’s a much faster way of writing. Handwritten notetaking has been shown to be more effective than digital in terms of concept retention (you’re not just regurgitating content verbatim), and cursive can facilitate better notetaking. I’d argue its setting students up for better outcomes in secondary and post-secondary institutions.

  Regardless of that I do agree with your view, we should not just continue things for the sake of tradition, young people aren’t “terrible” for forsaking certain traditions. If anything, re-evaluating what we hold as important is a useful exercise, especially when it comes to education.

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reading through these comments and I’m just now realizing something; I’ve never gone searching to see data on if cursive actually is faster on average and if so, how much. And does that handwriting improves memory fact apply more to cursive or print writing or equally just because it uses more muscles in general?

    I’d imagine it would partially depend on the script chosen, ligature vs looped, Spencerian vs New American vs D’nealian etc for speed but the memory thing I’ve got no guess.

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t shorthand (stenography) be a better solution then?

    Cursive was very specifically a solution to quill/fountain pens of old, where you needed to reduce the times the pen touched the paper.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  not learning cursive is like not learning Latin

  I think both are still useful today, cursive less so. But sure, they’re not indicative of superior moral fibre, which is presumably why you prefer young people to old people.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To put a finer point on it, it’s not even just “moral fibre”. Sure, higher societal morality is something we should all strive for, but I’m not even asking for that much.

    It’s the morally neutral bullshit like handwriting, or reading a novel on your phone instead of on paper, or spending your free time playing video games or watching YouTube/Twitch as opposed to watching Network television. There’s no reason to raise a fuss or dub others inferior for doing things a little different.

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    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not raising a fuss, but signing in detachéd does make it way easier for others to forge your signature and even less difficult to replicate your own signature. Knowing how to write cursive costs nothing, so not practicing it - at least for signatures - seems terrible.

      It lets you sign off greeting cards (more effectively)

      It leads to faster note taking (though generally less neat notes, lol)

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