s08nlql9@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhat do you think is the worst human invention?message-squaremessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down125file-text
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minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·edit-22 days agoCursive handwriting. Sorry, everything you wrote is useless because nobody, not even you, can read it.
minus-squarelimpatzk@bookwyr.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoCursive handwriting is actually the standard in Brazil (and I guess a lot of other places), so here you would be the odd one out.
minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI work in a museum, the amount of data lost due to illegible cursive handwriting is staggering.
minus-squarelimpatzk@bookwyr.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI also struggle to read some cursive handwriting, especially when the letters are more angular, like super italic.
minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoIt’s very sensitive to sloppiness too, I think, like if you write quickly or mindlessly it loses form and legibility very easily.
minus-squareThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoBeing illegible is the point. Doctors just write ‘his shit is fucked up, give him drugs or whatever idk’ in Latin and if people understood that they would freak out
Cursive handwriting. Sorry, everything you wrote is useless because nobody, not even you, can read it.
Cursive handwriting is actually the standard in Brazil (and I guess a lot of other places), so here you would be the odd one out.
I work in a museum, the amount of data lost due to illegible cursive handwriting is staggering.
I also struggle to read some cursive handwriting, especially when the letters are more angular, like super italic.
It’s very sensitive to sloppiness too, I think, like if you write quickly or mindlessly it loses form and legibility very easily.
Being illegible is the point. Doctors just write ‘his shit is fucked up, give him drugs or whatever idk’ in Latin and if people understood that they would freak out