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Post by katlady on Jul 31, 2025 3:28:37 GMT
I feel old. Someone could not read this because it was in cursive. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/1mdosjh/what_does_this_sticky_note_say/ linkGranted, it is a little sloppy, but still! And one comment - Who the hell writes s' in triangles?Had me cracking up! |
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Post by Zee on Jul 31, 2025 3:45:37 GMT
Yes but it looks like they misspelled "survey".
(ETA, all nurses who had to decode Dr notes and orders when they were on paper have this superpower)
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Post by katlady on Jul 31, 2025 3:58:52 GMT
Yes but it looks like they misspelled "survey". (ETA, all nurses who had to decode Dr notes and orders when they were on paper have this superpower) I think they didn't know how to make a "ve" in script properly. How do you read doctor notes??!! LOL! |
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 31, 2025 4:38:01 GMT
Yes, but it sure looks like "surely" not survey.
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Post by ToniW on Jul 31, 2025 4:44:08 GMT
Yes but it looks like they misspelled "survey". (ETA, all nurses who had to decode Dr notes and orders when they were on paper have this superpower)
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jul 31, 2025 6:57:15 GMT
Yes. I worked in a pharmacy before the days of printed prescriptions. If I can read Doctor, I can read anything. Sadly this is a skill no longer required, along with spelling and grammar. Ho hum.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 31, 2025 8:48:39 GMT
Without reading any other replies, I can read all but one word:
Can you please do rating (?) on the email thank you.
ETA: Ah, survey!
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Post by wellway on Jul 31, 2025 9:38:41 GMT
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Post by gillyp on Jul 31, 2025 10:10:32 GMT
I have transcribed births, marriages and deaths from cursive for a website and many old Wills from the 1800s and further back. It's very hard on the eyes. The piece linked is sloppy but easy to read. signed, a taught triangular S writer. |
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Post by melanell on Jul 31, 2025 10:26:46 GMT
I had a second's hesitation over "survey" which appears to be missing the "e", but otherwise it's fine. I regularly deal with records written across the last few centuries in all sorts of cursive styles and different handwriting, so the writing has to be either tiny (and un-zoomable), very faint, or just really, really bad to stump me completely.
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Post by melanell on Jul 31, 2025 10:29:25 GMT
I have transcribed births, marriages and deaths from cursive for a website and many old Wills from the 1800s and further back. It's very hard on the eyes. (emphasis in quote is mine) I completely agree. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 31, 2025 11:46:18 GMT
I can, but my kids probably wouldn’t be able to. I write in cursive all the time. My friend just reminded me that the kids won’t be able to read anything these I write on my scrapbook pages so now I’m trying to print instead.
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 31, 2025 11:51:25 GMT
Yes. But I teach elementary school kids so I'm good at decoding. lol
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 31, 2025 12:12:45 GMT
Yes. I worked with some men who had truly awful handwriting.
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Post by rymeswithpurple on Jul 31, 2025 13:33:23 GMT
I can read it. The triangle Ss remind me of my late MIL's cursive.
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Post by Linda on Jul 31, 2025 13:34:00 GMT
yes but I read old censuses and church records for fun, lol (genealogy).
I, however, can not WRITE cursive - we moved a lot when I was a kid and I left British schools before it was taught and entered American schools after it was expected to have been mastered.
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Post by Linda on Jul 31, 2025 13:35:10 GMT
I have transcribed births, marriages and deaths from cursive for a website and many old Wills from the 1800s and further back. It's very hard on the eyes. (emphasis in quote is mine) I completely agree. also completely agreeing |
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Post by aprilfay21 on Jul 31, 2025 15:23:01 GMT
Without reading any replies here I read "Can you please do rating survey on email. Thank you."
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Post by alsomsknit on Jul 31, 2025 15:49:21 GMT
Yes, though, I agree with others about the survey. Looks like surely, but context is survey.
My friend would send pics of historical papers to see if I could read the writing.
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Post by papersilly on Jul 31, 2025 16:54:27 GMT
i grew up with cursive so i can read it. i still make notes in files in cursive.
i was just remember my friend. in 6th grade his teacher would make him stay after school to practice his cursive. he lived across the street from me so there were many days we didn't walk home together. after all that, his writing did improve but it was so odd that he had to stay after school for that.
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Post by lisae on Jul 31, 2025 16:58:59 GMT
I could read it though I had to look carefully at some of the writing. Of course I'm getting it completely out of context. The triangles comment made me chuckle. When I do notes to myself I use a triangle to designate the word change from math terminology. And I have a terrible handwriting!
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Post by busy on Jul 31, 2025 17:08:17 GMT
TBH, I don't understand not being able to read cursive. If English isn't a first language, sure. But many letters closely resemble their printed counterparts and the ones that don't can usually be discerned by context.
DS (17) has never learned to write cursive beyond his own signature, but he can read it with relative ease. He wasn't taught in school nor did we teach him at home.
(Uppercase G is still a mystery to me - why anyone decided that's how it should be written, I will never understand. I write in mixed cursive a lot but never in my life after elementary penmanship have written a capital cursive G "correctly.")
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Post by MerryMom on Aug 1, 2025 21:21:48 GMT
Can you please do rating survey on the email. Thank you
Cursive methods: Spencer, Palmer, Zaner-Bloser, D'Nealian,
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Post by katlady on Aug 1, 2025 22:31:09 GMT
Some of the really old cursive handwriting is hard for me to read. It is pretty but too "fancy".  |
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Post by pantsonfire on Aug 1, 2025 22:39:57 GMT
Yes. Showed it to DD too who never learned to write in cursive and read it. Going to show ds and see if can as well.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 2, 2025 3:24:44 GMT
Yes. But I teach elementary school kids so I'm good at decoding. lol Same. Sometimes you just have to relax your eyes and let your brain predict the next words and you find you are correct. |
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Post by katlady on Aug 2, 2025 5:16:40 GMT
Yes. But I teach elementary school kids so I'm good at decoding. lol Same. Sometimes you just have to relax your eyes and let your brain predict the next words and you find you are correct. The brain is good at filling in the blanks. They have those tests were you read something with letters missing, and you still read it correctly. Or, it even works with digital art where you brain puts together all the dots and you see an image or color. |
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Post by KikiPea on Aug 2, 2025 12:00:26 GMT
Yes, I can read it. I’m 52 though, so I learned how to read and write cursive.
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Post by melanell on Aug 2, 2025 12:28:56 GMT
My 14 year old got "Can you please __ rating ______ on the _____ thank you" The dangling "g" over email stumped them, as did the misspelled "survey" (though they did know the word started with an "s", not a triangle  ) and they did not recognize the "d" in "do". They also questioned what happened to the word "the" between "do" and "rating". They swear that would have helped them.  |
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Post by sierra821 on Aug 2, 2025 14:32:18 GMT
My 20 yr old daughter could, she had trouble with the word survey but it’s written wire anyway. She taught herself cursive.
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) and they did not recognize the "d" in "do". They also questioned what happened to the word "the" between "do" and "rating". They swear that would have helped them. 
