There is a theme that runs through these comments, that tells me that things, practices, customs, beliefs, and all that pertains to the PAST has no value, because of the fa, a, and ct that it's "old" . . . or antiquated, or outdated, and that it was considered "expected" and "approved" in the past by civilized and educated people, in most places. It's similar to the mentality that causes some to want to trash a three-year-old automobile, just because it's "old" . . . in favor of sometyhing "newer" and more "up-to-date". There was a kind of discipline and control, conformity, if you will, in learning to write in cursive style, which made everyone's writing look in a sense similar to everybody else's, and we all know that rebellion is honored and worshipped, whereas conformity of every type is detested. What I was hoping to see, but didn't, was the fact that typewriter, computer and almost every type of alpha numerical keyboard gives the typist a choice of type faces, one of which is named "script" . . . which is nothing, essentially, but another term for cursive. It appears similar, in many respects, to italics in most other type faces. So, then, if we manually write it, it's like a dinosaur, but if we type it, that makes it acceptable?
Don't you think it strange that some of these same nonconformists who hate a thing if it's old, just love antique furniture and cars?