The Coolest Signatures In History
Aside: I suppose that within a couple of generations signatures will disappear along with cursive writing. The signature cards at banks and the spaces for signatures on the backs of credit cards will be gone, too.
4 comments:
I've seen the disappearance of cursive/signatures happen within the space of a few years. When my oldest daughter (who is now 22) was in elementary school, cursive handwriting was a daily subject and, after 4th grade, teachers of all subjects wanted all work done in cursive. Fast-forward a mere five years: my twins (16-1/2 and still in high school) have never had any cursive lessons. I did buy them some penmanship books when they were younger, but whatever they got, they got on their own (one twin has a relatively nice signature, the other basically prints letters with loop-de-loops; neither uses cursive for any writing that they have to do). Like you say Bill, it's a dying skill.
Before long authors will be printing their signatures in books. That kind of takes the fun out of it.
I've never willingly signed the back of a credit card and only once has a store demanded I do so.
Why give a thief an example of a signature to forge?
And if you lose it or it gets stolen wouldn't a crook be able to use it? Then again, I've found that people rarely if ever check a signature.
I've had a lifetime of reading and deciphering bad script, first my mother's and then Jackie 's who is, admittedly, left-handed. My handwriting has always been quite legible.
That said, I have no problem with people printing.
Jeff
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