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Funny enough, there was an op-ed from a professor lamenting the fact that younger generations can't read cursives. He worried that the current generation will become future historians who may not be able to read them.
Might as well lament not being able to write and read cuneiforms or oghams by the masses is what I thought to myself. If cursive writing becomes obsolete and relic of history, so be it. Historians specialise reading ancient texts so the same expectations should be applied to future historians to specialise reading cursives, if they are so interested.
Right, it's not like someone who becomes a historian can't easily learn how to read cursive. It's not exactly rocket science.
That's somehow puzzling given that even if I know the cursive of my generation (which, even then differed by country, region, and even school), the cursive of the past is pretty much different from it.
My knowledge of cursive doesn't guarantee being able to read a Spanish church document, written in cursive, from the 1700's. Historians and related professionals train on how to read these kinds of cursive as needed.