• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    How do modern kids even develop a signature? They used to teach cursive and it’s based on that, but cursive isn’t used anymore

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        14 days ago

        Write name, but sloppily. My brain will always be lazy in the same way, so the signature just ends up looking approximately the same every time. So basically, lots of squigglies too, but I’ll get the ascenders and descenders.

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        14 days ago

        I used to sign my name in cursive, but its legibility as actual letters disappeared over the same time span as my forgetting how to write cursive altogether. Now it vaguely resembles a capital K followed by a bunch of random shit. It does at least look pretty much the same every time.

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      14 days ago

      Your signature is your mark. Uniquely identifying. It doesn’t need to be your name.

      I originally signed with name and last name plus a squiggle. I got tired of that and many years ago I changed it to my 4 letter first name barely legible. Way better more consistent than the variance writing my full name.

      Butnintinknwe aware saying the same. Cursive is illegible, so. A bunch of squiggles is good enough. Some people call it cursive.

      Note: other than nostalgia, I don’t understand why cursive. Barely legible even by the original writer.