> I was thinking about this today as I laboriously wrote a letter to my grandmother.
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> Where is cursive writing going? Do any of you still use cursive? Everyone now is taught cursive mandatorily, but do you think that soon it will become an elective, like Spanish or Art class?
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Actually, I write in cursive whenever I can, because I'm just used to it.

> I almost never write cursive anymore. These days, cursive is quaint and hardly used, because of computers.

Just speaking of computers, pull up Microsoft Word and select the font "Lucida Handwriting", "Freestyle Script", or "Signet Roundhand." There's computer cursive for you.

> So what do you think? Is cursive necessary, except to read old Snoopy cartoons? Do you use it?

Well, yes. And I do not mean this in a sarcastically terse way.

Si"Don't forget about reading the books in Myst and Riven"lon