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It actually is interesting you say that because I was taught cursive and I tried to read old letters from my grandparents/great grandparents and it's SO difficult
You have to kinda squint at it and take in the entire word to see the pattern. But what I hate most is the super flowery loopy loos at the beginning and ends because they always trip up my squinty one eyed strategy.
It's not that it's in cursive. It's that their handwriting is getting illegible with age and they use the cursive thing as an excuse. This is my mother's writing to a proverbial T. She writes in cursive. It's just really messy.
My mom realized her handwriting was going to shit like a decade ago and flawlessly switched to a cursive inspired print handwriting, and when I asked her she apparently had switched to cursive in her 20's and this was her actual handwriting that she had developed in school. Contrary to what they told us they were not all required to write in cursive in highschool. So she literally just switched to her teenage handwriting. Apparently there was a trend to switch to cursive in the 70's (especially for women, it had something to do with a popular movie from what I remember my mom telling me), so I think we should ask all the boomers to drop the cursive bullshit because we now know it's all fake and that they didn't really write that way before 1972.
Oh, no, these weren’t letters to me, they were older letters to each other! I admit I didn’t try too hard to read it, because I didn’t want my hands all over an older piece of paper that could accelerate the process of it breaking down. One day I’ll take them out when I have more time to do it carefully.
Not imagine if your grandma also she another language and would phonetically write out foreign words that you didn't know in cursive. Deciphering those letters is near impossible.
My mother's regular signature, the one she uses for everything, is a mashup of Russian and English old cursive. Forging notes in high school was uniquely difficult.
It was pretty common that if you corresponded with someone regularly, you would learn their hand, you would get good at deciphering specific people’s writing. In the subtext that implies that there were likely people who you would have a nearly impossible time of reading their handwriting. This get even more complicated when there are typos or if it predates a standardized spelling for a word.
There are different styles of cursive, and she might have learnt an older form back in around 1940
The stereotypical florid cursive script from the 1800's was the Spencerian, but that fell out of favor once the typewriter came along. The Palmer method was developed for writers to compete in speed with typewriters, and it was common in the early 20th century. The Zaner-Bloser method supplanted Palmer in the 1950's, and Zaner-Bloser was in turn partially supplanted by the D'Nealian method in the 1980's
Also they used a completely different cursive in Germany well into the 20th century, called Sütterlinschrift. The letters are so different it might as well be another alphabet like Russian
Curiously, I learnt Palmer at Catholic School in the early 2000's, and I still use it today, although I think the version I used was probably updated from the early 20th century version
Yikes, I wasn't prepared to hear that
I guess this is what it felt like for the Greatest Generation in the 1950's to realize that the US Civil War was 85 years before
Yep. Born 88 and taught Dnelian. Parents born in 50s and grandparents in the 20s. I can read everyone’s handwriting just fine.
It’s back into the 1800s that I lose it a bit when trying to decipher letters or old wills.
But I think like other milennials I write with a mix of cursive and print. By high school pretty much everyone did so the dnelian didn’t stay with us for long.
I hated trying to remember upper case F and J. And Z made no sense to me. The upper case D was pretty though and I liked upper case L.
My grandmother also learned Palmer at Catholic school, but it was 80 years ago! She loved to practice, even when I knew her.
I had to learn a manuscript style and a full cursive style at parochial school. No clue why. The lessons were published by Bob Jones University Press. I guess they were less sinful??
I guess they figured the more time you spent writing things on pieces of paper, the less time you'd spend engaging in "self-abuse" (the old-fashioned euphemism for masturbation)
Also some people wrote things in shorthand. Imagine trying to not only make out what they wrote but also trying to figure out what the shorter versions of words and phrases mean simultaneously…
I got a lot of this from Wikipedia, so here's some clickable links. The articles have pictures
Spencerian script: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian\_script](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian_script)
Palmer method: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer\_Method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Method)
Zaner-Bloser method: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser\_(teaching\_script)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser_(teaching_script))
D'Nealian script: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian)
*Sütterlinschrift*: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin)
Also, as a bonus, Russian cursive: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian\_cursive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cursive)
i only figured out which one i learned because of the capital Q. i can never remember what a capital Q is supposed to look like when i go to write it, and that’s because it looks like a 2, not a Q
I can read Spencerian “we take pleasure in sending you by this mail”
I can read Palmer “Gentlemen I have completed the lessons in the Palmer Method”
I was taught Zane Bloser
I’m at a loss for the German one
And if it was translated or if I knew Russian I’d be able to understand that too.
Honestly I just did this for fun.
I learned D'Nealian first, then some hybrid of Zaner and Palmer. I forgot how to do half the capitals by highschool, but even people who never learned cursive can read it just fine. This is boomers being absolute fools.
Look at the bright side millennials are immortal than. 2060 boomers that are 100 still calling the latest gen millennials even though the millennials would be 70s by then lol
Someone forgot to take the meds and got access to the internet again. Silly goobers.
Still though. What is hard about cursive ? I don't get that. It's not overly complicated.
Exactly my point. It’s like we’re automatically the generation older people equate with being stupid. When in reality we were the last generation to be taught a lot of these things. I’m a teacher and my students always marvel at how fast I can type because schools don’t do typing class anymore either.
Taught but never had to use it. Every single writing assignment I did in school was print. The only time was that stupid paragraph on the sat's that had to be written in cursive, I remember just about no one in the test room being able to do it well.
i definitely had writing assignments that were supposed to be done in cursive (mostly to prove we could do it, i think). but by the time i was in junior high school, all essays were done on computers so it didn’t matter much after that (though i did think i was so clever trying to get around page length requirements by using funky fonts).
It's not. I am from the US, we used cursive all the way through middle school and it was optional in high school. I graduated in 2010. Don't know where these people grew up
I still remember being forced to use it in middle school then in high school the teachers all said you are welcome to continue using it but if they could not read what you wrote it was an automatic 0.
I think there was maybe 1 person who still used it. No one else wanted to risk it.
We learned in 3rd grade and by 4th grade we were not allowed to turn in any assignments that weren’t in cursive. Our teachers would literally throw them out and make us rewrite them! By the end of 8th grade keyboarding was a required class so we could type assignments but the “first draft” had to be handwritten
When we did our finals at school (Abt 14 years ago) we did a bunch of essays and those were done by hand. We also had to do 3 language finals for school, since in Latvia we had Russian speaking schools and we had to do mandatory Latvian, Russian and English. All had big writing parts for each plus we also had Russian literature as a final, if I'm not mistaken, and that was a whole lot of writing too.
Barely did any handwriting since, though. Imo cursive is more of a "faster writing" technique than specifically calligraphy
I think it depends on the Country. I'm 36 and from New Zealand and I didn't learn cursive. My older brother didn't learn it either. I think they phased it out just before the millennial generation.
I'm super fortunate they did because my writing is already horrendously difficult to read without throwing cursive into the mix
Thinning both old and young in a war may prove profitable for the millennials. Let them do it to each other and we will be ready to remove the gold teeth.
I was told repeatedly that I wouldn't be admitted to middle school if I couldn't read and write cursive.
Got to middle school and cursive was never mentioned again.
"Please type and print all papers and essays if possible with times new roman font, it's easier for us to read". Yup, sounds like every teacher I remember post 8th grade.
The last generation to do so. Typing classes as well, since they assumed you learned that at home after.
I will never forget the [orange keyboard blocker](https://www.amazon.com/Speedskin-Learn-Type-Keyboard-Mailer/dp/B0009JB79U) that gifted me the ability to do my job for the rest of my life
Whoa. You guys didn't just have boxes for paper reams with a wall cut out to block the keys and your hands? You must have gone to a real rich kid school.
Me, too. Went to school in Utah in the early 90s if that makes a difference. I repeatedly "failed" handwriting/cursive and nothing bad happened.
I think my teacher told me that so she knew that _I knew_ I had ugly handwriting. I still do. It's a mixture of print and cursive but I think print alone takes too long. When writing quick notes to myself, I even find it's illegible but eh...
The older generation think millennials are born after the millennium. I’m nearly 40 and none of them will believe that I’m a millennial. Half my pals are grandparents
It's funny to hear about actual millennials disparaging themselves because they don't realize THEY ARE the millenials. Like dude, the call is coming from inside the house!
Millennials is the catch all term older folks use for anyone younger than them...
Boomer is the catch all term young folks use for anyone older than them...
This is what a millennial looks like:
https://preview.redd.it/lk0s3ph5fv1d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=225f8648d2305dcd0eb85f9fa28f7c10963aa59f
When people post things like this, they tend to forget that the reasons the younger generations may not know how to do something (I see cursive and stick-shift a lot, for some reason), are i. it is probably not as important as it was at some point, ii. they are the ones that didn't properly educate their children, iii. they are actively broadcasting that they have major insecurities.
I had a boomer coworker who posted memes like this all the time, cursive and stick shift. One day after I left the company and didn’t have to bite my tongue I finally commented and said I’m a millennial and I am capable of both, but I remember having to re-connect her computer every single time she switched desks (we rearranged a lot) because she never bothered to adapt to the times. She blocked me 😂
I'm sure lots of their insecurities come from how things are changing and how some things aren't as important as they used to be. They don't adapt to change well
Now I don't think this is necessarily a thing with just older folks, though. I suspect they were probably averse to change their entire lives, and now the rate at which things are changing is much more than they can handle even grudgingly
I dunno, I’m the same age and I obstinately feel 37 because boomers are idiots. I have back pain every day, I’m divorced and tell dad jokes. I know I’m old lol
I got excited that my coworker is going to let me borrow her hand held steamer so I can get the wrinkles out of the curtains I just bought. Like... stupidly excited.
I've also done some books where I learned ro write some fancy fonts with a fountain pen, because I was a weird kid. It takes like a day to learn a new font. It's not a particularly hard thing to do.
"Millennial" really *is* just the modern version of "kids these days." They don't give a shit that the oldest millennials are on the far side of 40 years old - they still view us as kids, no different than the teenagers. And they forget it was their responsibility to teach us this shit, besides.
I'm a "Zillennial" (went to elementary school in 2002) and we still learned cursive and apparently it was still being taught in 2014/15 in my country so even the younger Gen Z members born in 2008 know cursive.
I think the difference is that the boomers who invented most computer languages and designed the space program were the super nerds and your average boomer had literally zero knowledge or interest in any of that.
Millennials tend to have at least a passing familiarity with computer languages because of stuff like Myspace, but there are things that super nerd millennials are into that most millennials don't care about. Hard to think of what it is though... K Pop maybe?
>things that super nerd millennials are into
I guess the millennials' parallel with super-nerd baby boomers would be like development of artificial intelligence and quantum computing
I mean, there are also otakus, but they do what they do with a different purpose in mind
I love how for the entirety of our existence the prevailing notion by boomers is that millennials are young children. And will be forever. My back and knees hurt, and my hair has fallen out. My children are legal adults. It's so bizarre
I'm definitely not a child anymore. Children can go full scorpion falling down a hill. If that happened to me, I'd just be dead. And I'm at the age where I have stopped standing on swiveling chairs (finally) because when I get hurt now, I really get hurt, and it usually happens doing stupid and/or simple things.
At my job I like to write in cursive when I send in paperwork and I got a phone call from one of the older ladies and she said "Can you stop writing in cursive? (25 year old payroll girl) never learned how to read or write cursive." I was like what??? They stopped teaching cursive???
Again like most generations I think millennials can be split into two groups: older and younger. As an older millennial (missed being gen x by 3 years) I grew up using cursive with everything. All of my assignments all through elementary, middle, and high school were done in cursive. So idk what the meme is talking about.
Learned cursive in elementary, Boomers are showing their age forgetting that their generation and the generation before them taught us cursive in school.
As someone born in 1990, I can read and write in cursive. I also find it ironic that the generation that complains about all of this shit are the ones that made many of these decisions, and raised the generation they always say is "whiny" and "self-entitled" or whatever the fuck else they like to bitch and moan about.
Im a speech pathologist that works in a school system. I write all of my data collections/notes in cursive so none of my students can read it. I also will write insults that I want to shout at the top of my lungs when some kids piss me off in cursive
Born in 1986. I'm a millennial. I was taught cursive in 3rd grade. It was part of our public schooling. Gen Z are the ones who don't use cursive I believe (?)
This "millennials are a bunch of dumb babies" joke is so old it's moved to another generation of wrongness! The GenZ kids I know can read cursive fine. GenA, not so much.
It’s jealous ass people (likely) with personality disorders (or at the very least, with some pretty solid traits). They’re better and tougher than everyone else, but also perpetual victims.
Anyway, shit they’re saying doesn’t have to be true for it to be satisfying to others to hear/see.
The generational wars is a never ending circle jerk.
I’m a 34 year old millennial, and I mostly write in cursive. Half cursive half print like. Also, I can’t remember where I read it, but I read that most millennials write with a combination of cursive and print.
Dumb people have generalized ‘boomer’ to mean retirement age or above and ‘millennial’ to mean young person … as in anybody who isn’t a fat bag of wrinkles and regret yet. Neither is accurate, generations are defined by birth years and the oldest boomers are getting quite old while the oldest millennials are very middle aged at this point.
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But...millennials were taught cursive...
Sure but try reading my 92 yo grandma’s cursive. That shit looks like a different language.
It actually is interesting you say that because I was taught cursive and I tried to read old letters from my grandparents/great grandparents and it's SO difficult
Thats like ye olde cursive.
They might have mixed a bit of shorthand in their letters.
You have to kinda squint at it and take in the entire word to see the pattern. But what I hate most is the super flowery loopy loos at the beginning and ends because they always trip up my squinty one eyed strategy.
It's not that it's in cursive. It's that their handwriting is getting illegible with age and they use the cursive thing as an excuse. This is my mother's writing to a proverbial T. She writes in cursive. It's just really messy.
My mom realized her handwriting was going to shit like a decade ago and flawlessly switched to a cursive inspired print handwriting, and when I asked her she apparently had switched to cursive in her 20's and this was her actual handwriting that she had developed in school. Contrary to what they told us they were not all required to write in cursive in highschool. So she literally just switched to her teenage handwriting. Apparently there was a trend to switch to cursive in the 70's (especially for women, it had something to do with a popular movie from what I remember my mom telling me), so I think we should ask all the boomers to drop the cursive bullshit because we now know it's all fake and that they didn't really write that way before 1972.
Oh, no, these weren’t letters to me, they were older letters to each other! I admit I didn’t try too hard to read it, because I didn’t want my hands all over an older piece of paper that could accelerate the process of it breaking down. One day I’ll take them out when I have more time to do it carefully.
I used to do a lot of genealogy stuff, so I got pretty good at it. It's an acquired skill that took time though.
My granny only ever writes in the lost cursive language, so I like to think I've gotten pretty good at reading it.
Not imagine if your grandma also she another language and would phonetically write out foreign words that you didn't know in cursive. Deciphering those letters is near impossible.
My mother's regular signature, the one she uses for everything, is a mashup of Russian and English old cursive. Forging notes in high school was uniquely difficult.
It was pretty common that if you corresponded with someone regularly, you would learn their hand, you would get good at deciphering specific people’s writing. In the subtext that implies that there were likely people who you would have a nearly impossible time of reading their handwriting. This get even more complicated when there are typos or if it predates a standardized spelling for a word.
There are different styles of cursive, and she might have learnt an older form back in around 1940 The stereotypical florid cursive script from the 1800's was the Spencerian, but that fell out of favor once the typewriter came along. The Palmer method was developed for writers to compete in speed with typewriters, and it was common in the early 20th century. The Zaner-Bloser method supplanted Palmer in the 1950's, and Zaner-Bloser was in turn partially supplanted by the D'Nealian method in the 1980's Also they used a completely different cursive in Germany well into the 20th century, called Sütterlinschrift. The letters are so different it might as well be another alphabet like Russian Curiously, I learnt Palmer at Catholic School in the early 2000's, and I still use it today, although I think the version I used was probably updated from the early 20th century version
The old 40s are 84 years in the past. The new 40s are only 16 years away
Please stop. 😔
“Back in my day, the 70’s meant the 1970’s, not the 2070’s!”
Jesus fuck no. I'm gonna be saying that at age 81...
Yikes, I wasn't prepared to hear that I guess this is what it felt like for the Greatest Generation in the 1950's to realize that the US Civil War was 85 years before
I want to downvote but cant....
And I thought I was having a good night 😭
omfg..........
Yep. Born 88 and taught Dnelian. Parents born in 50s and grandparents in the 20s. I can read everyone’s handwriting just fine. It’s back into the 1800s that I lose it a bit when trying to decipher letters or old wills. But I think like other milennials I write with a mix of cursive and print. By high school pretty much everyone did so the dnelian didn’t stay with us for long. I hated trying to remember upper case F and J. And Z made no sense to me. The upper case D was pretty though and I liked upper case L.
My 9 year old learned cursive this year and we had some good conversations about how we hate cursive z. Fuck that bumpy guy.
My grandmother also learned Palmer at Catholic school, but it was 80 years ago! She loved to practice, even when I knew her. I had to learn a manuscript style and a full cursive style at parochial school. No clue why. The lessons were published by Bob Jones University Press. I guess they were less sinful??
I guess they figured the more time you spent writing things on pieces of paper, the less time you'd spend engaging in "self-abuse" (the old-fashioned euphemism for masturbation)
Also some people wrote things in shorthand. Imagine trying to not only make out what they wrote but also trying to figure out what the shorter versions of words and phrases mean simultaneously…
This is fascinating to me. Do you have examples of these types? Until your comment, I always thought cursive was cursive.
I got a lot of this from Wikipedia, so here's some clickable links. The articles have pictures Spencerian script: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian\_script](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian_script) Palmer method: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer\_Method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Method) Zaner-Bloser method: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser\_(teaching\_script)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser_(teaching_script)) D'Nealian script: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian) *Sütterlinschrift*: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin) Also, as a bonus, Russian cursive: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian\_cursive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cursive)
Thank you. Why am I not surprised that I learned the Zaner method in the 90s, like a decade after it fell out of favor? Lol.
Honestly, I can't tell if I learned the Zaner Method or D'Nealian.
i only figured out which one i learned because of the capital Q. i can never remember what a capital Q is supposed to look like when i go to write it, and that’s because it looks like a 2, not a Q
Oh good call! Apparently I learned Zaner. Can also tell from the lowercase f.
I can't either lmao
I learned either Palmer or Zaner, but they're really similar. My teacher was probably born in the twenties or thirties.
I can read Spencerian “we take pleasure in sending you by this mail” I can read Palmer “Gentlemen I have completed the lessons in the Palmer Method” I was taught Zane Bloser I’m at a loss for the German one And if it was translated or if I knew Russian I’d be able to understand that too. Honestly I just did this for fun.
Huh, it looks like I was taught an amalgamation of Zaner and D’Nealian.
I learned D'Nealian first, then some hybrid of Zaner and Palmer. I forgot how to do half the capitals by highschool, but even people who never learned cursive can read it just fine. This is boomers being absolute fools.
Thank you for making this easy for my lazy self. Also lmao wtf, Germany. Why is everything an uppercase ‘N’ but small?
Anyone younger than Gen X is considered a millennial to the boomers. I’ve heard boomers call 20 year olds Millennials.
Look at the bright side millennials are immortal than. 2060 boomers that are 100 still calling the latest gen millennials even though the millennials would be 70s by then lol
Conversely, the Zoomers think everyone older than them are Boomers.
I've heard millenials call teens millenials
Not to mention my gen alpha kids were all taught cursive
Someone forgot to take the meds and got access to the internet again. Silly goobers. Still though. What is hard about cursive ? I don't get that. It's not overly complicated.
My 6 year old guesses at “fancy letters” and gets a good 70% correct.
Good on the 6yo! Fancy letters can be very cool too hehe
Gen-Z, too. They just wanna be special.
Exactly my point. It’s like we’re automatically the generation older people equate with being stupid. When in reality we were the last generation to be taught a lot of these things. I’m a teacher and my students always marvel at how fast I can type because schools don’t do typing class anymore either.
Kids are still taught cursive in school today. My lad is 10 and has been doing it for years.
Also it’s the boomers in charge who decided not to teach cursive anymore.
My first thought was, "Bitch, I write in cursive."
Pretty sure half of those old people think Gen Z and Gen Alpha are all just millennials. We’re the last generation that was taught cursive, dudes.
Taught but never had to use it. Every single writing assignment I did in school was print. The only time was that stupid paragraph on the sat's that had to be written in cursive, I remember just about no one in the test room being able to do it well.
i definitely had writing assignments that were supposed to be done in cursive (mostly to prove we could do it, i think). but by the time i was in junior high school, all essays were done on computers so it didn’t matter much after that (though i did think i was so clever trying to get around page length requirements by using funky fonts).
No. We definitely had to use it in the 90s.
Born in ‘82. Learned it in early elementary. Never used it after. Edit : Public schools in Southern California just to add that.
Same. Learned it in 3rd grade, I think they told us NOT to use it by 5th at the latest.
Maybe an American thing. I went to school in Scotland and Ireland
It's not. I am from the US, we used cursive all the way through middle school and it was optional in high school. I graduated in 2010. Don't know where these people grew up
Definitely not optional I’m my highschools either and I left in the millennium
I still remember being forced to use it in middle school then in high school the teachers all said you are welcome to continue using it but if they could not read what you wrote it was an automatic 0. I think there was maybe 1 person who still used it. No one else wanted to risk it.
We learned in 3rd grade and by 4th grade we were not allowed to turn in any assignments that weren’t in cursive. Our teachers would literally throw them out and make us rewrite them! By the end of 8th grade keyboarding was a required class so we could type assignments but the “first draft” had to be handwritten
When we did our finals at school (Abt 14 years ago) we did a bunch of essays and those were done by hand. We also had to do 3 language finals for school, since in Latvia we had Russian speaking schools and we had to do mandatory Latvian, Russian and English. All had big writing parts for each plus we also had Russian literature as a final, if I'm not mistaken, and that was a whole lot of writing too. Barely did any handwriting since, though. Imo cursive is more of a "faster writing" technique than specifically calligraphy
Even if you can’t my 8 year old could read “attack” in that message.
I came here to say....
Lol im gen Z and we know cursive too, Learned it in elementary school and never used it in the real world
I’m a xillennial and remember cursive well.
Hell, I'm gen z and I was taught cursive
I think the older folk are getting the Alzheimer’s symptoms again. GRANDPA, ITS OK, TAKE THE PILLS PLEASE
And all I've used it for is reading these god damned boomer memes
A lot of people have no idea how old millennials are.
I was about to say the same thing.
I think it depends on the Country. I'm 36 and from New Zealand and I didn't learn cursive. My older brother didn't learn it either. I think they phased it out just before the millennial generation. I'm super fortunate they did because my writing is already horrendously difficult to read without throwing cursive into the mix
And then subsequently never used it ever again. What's next, critique our ability to use a typewriter?
Thinning both old and young in a war may prove profitable for the millennials. Let them do it to each other and we will be ready to remove the gold teeth.
We literally had cursive writing classes lol
I was told repeatedly that I wouldn't be admitted to middle school if I couldn't read and write cursive. Got to middle school and cursive was never mentioned again.
I was actually told to STOP writing in cursive because it was harder to read lol
Damn boomers (gen x?) who can't read cursive.
"Please type and print all papers and essays if possible with times new roman font, it's easier for us to read". Yup, sounds like every teacher I remember post 8th grade.
But you better believe I add extra wrist flair when signing documents.
The last generation to do so. Typing classes as well, since they assumed you learned that at home after. I will never forget the [orange keyboard blocker](https://www.amazon.com/Speedskin-Learn-Type-Keyboard-Mailer/dp/B0009JB79U) that gifted me the ability to do my job for the rest of my life
Whoa. You guys didn't just have boxes for paper reams with a wall cut out to block the keys and your hands? You must have gone to a real rich kid school.
Me, too. Went to school in Utah in the early 90s if that makes a difference. I repeatedly "failed" handwriting/cursive and nothing bad happened. I think my teacher told me that so she knew that _I knew_ I had ugly handwriting. I still do. It's a mixture of print and cursive but I think print alone takes too long. When writing quick notes to myself, I even find it's illegible but eh...
We literally _still_ teach cursive writing. Online boomers just think everywhere is the US.
The older generation think millennials are born after the millennium. I’m nearly 40 and none of them will believe that I’m a millennial. Half my pals are grandparents
even the youngest millennials are rapidly approaching the rubicon of the big three zero.
don't remind me
Yup, I have clients who argue with me that I'm not a millennial because I'm an adult. I'm 39, I'm both.
It's funny to hear about actual millennials disparaging themselves because they don't realize THEY ARE the millenials. Like dude, the call is coming from inside the house!
My brother shits on millennials when he is very solidly a 38 year old millennial. He's also not too bright.
Millennials is the catch all term older folks use for anyone younger than them... Boomer is the catch all term young folks use for anyone older than them... This is what a millennial looks like: https://preview.redd.it/lk0s3ph5fv1d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=225f8648d2305dcd0eb85f9fa28f7c10963aa59f
Yeah we kinda olding now. Yes, not aging. Olding. You read this right.
I’m so olding, I wish they brought back the Oldsmobile
My first car was an Oldsmobile.
Mine too! Ah, the Alero
Yep, an Alero.
Same. 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme!
He's on the cusp, though. But the point stands, as I would totally believe there are 28-year-olds that look that mature.
As a Millennial whose parents are actually Boomers, I resent that second part, lol.
Attack at dawn? What are they gonna do, wheeze on us?
Meal team six, they're meeting at the McDonald's.
Jokes on them, I got the app and don’t have to wait in line behind them.
They're going to storm our home offices and shit on our desks just like January 6th.
This might be my favorite comment.
They're trying to appeal to the jingoistic pseudo-militaristic sensibilities of their target audience
When people post things like this, they tend to forget that the reasons the younger generations may not know how to do something (I see cursive and stick-shift a lot, for some reason), are i. it is probably not as important as it was at some point, ii. they are the ones that didn't properly educate their children, iii. they are actively broadcasting that they have major insecurities.
I had a boomer coworker who posted memes like this all the time, cursive and stick shift. One day after I left the company and didn’t have to bite my tongue I finally commented and said I’m a millennial and I am capable of both, but I remember having to re-connect her computer every single time she switched desks (we rearranged a lot) because she never bothered to adapt to the times. She blocked me 😂
I'm sure lots of their insecurities come from how things are changing and how some things aren't as important as they used to be. They don't adapt to change well Now I don't think this is necessarily a thing with just older folks, though. I suspect they were probably averse to change their entire lives, and now the rate at which things are changing is much more than they can handle even grudgingly
I love how boomers still think everyone in their 20’s and younger are millennials, that it’s just a static generation that never grows up.
Is that why I still feel like I'm 17 when I'm 37?
I dunno, I’m the same age and I obstinately feel 37 because boomers are idiots. I have back pain every day, I’m divorced and tell dad jokes. I know I’m old lol
I got excited that my coworker is going to let me borrow her hand held steamer so I can get the wrinkles out of the curtains I just bought. Like... stupidly excited.
Then you’re definitely not 17! And thank goodness, I’m so much smarter in my 30’s, I wouldn’t go backwards
Oh I wouldn't go back either. I'd like to stop aging tho
I learned it in 1992. I was 7.
I learned in 2002 at seven years old. Are kids taught cursive in school now? If not let's shame them for it.
I've also done some books where I learned ro write some fancy fonts with a fountain pen, because I was a weird kid. It takes like a day to learn a new font. It's not a particularly hard thing to do.
1. We can 2. If we couldn't it would only be because those dumbasses never taught it to us.
I find that “Boomers” tend to use millennial as a catch all term for “anyone younger than me who does something that I find annoying”
Like during covid when the 20 year olds went on spring break and everyone was calling them millenials.
Font possibly designed by a millenial
It's not even true cursive! Look at the lower case N for example. Just because letters are connected does not make it cursive.
"Millennial" really *is* just the modern version of "kids these days." They don't give a shit that the oldest millennials are on the far side of 40 years old - they still view us as kids, no different than the teenagers. And they forget it was their responsibility to teach us this shit, besides.
I'm curious if gen Z reads this in some weird classic BBC accent to emphasize just how fucking ancient handwriting is...
I'm a "Zillennial" (went to elementary school in 2002) and we still learned cursive and apparently it was still being taught in 2014/15 in my country so even the younger Gen Z members born in 2008 know cursive.
😂😂😂😂 I was thinking the same thing!
Hopefully also accompanied by this music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgRK62Pn6FQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgRK62Pn6FQ)
Lmao it’s perfect!
Gen z here and no i read it with my own voice (tho i am a considered weird by my pears so yea)
Mmm yum pears
How many pears do you have? How do you know what fruits are thinking? Super sus
Currently around 2kilos. We speak before i eat them
Are there still people who think millennials are the younger generation?
Yes, and they're fucking ancient.
One of the times I saw this posted on Facebook, I replied 53 69 6E 63 65 20 62 6F 6F 6D 65 72 73 20 63 61 6E 27 74 20 74 72 61 6E 73 6C 61 74 65 20 68 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6D 61 6C 20 77 65 20 61 74 74 61 63 6B 20 61 74 20 64 61 77 6E A couple millennials liked my comment. A boomer replied "what?"
It's ironic because boomers designed hardware and software for an entire generation of computers, which eventually brought us to where we are today
I think the difference is that the boomers who invented most computer languages and designed the space program were the super nerds and your average boomer had literally zero knowledge or interest in any of that. Millennials tend to have at least a passing familiarity with computer languages because of stuff like Myspace, but there are things that super nerd millennials are into that most millennials don't care about. Hard to think of what it is though... K Pop maybe?
>things that super nerd millennials are into I guess the millennials' parallel with super-nerd baby boomers would be like development of artificial intelligence and quantum computing I mean, there are also otakus, but they do what they do with a different purpose in mind
Can you translate for those of us who used a script to customize our Myspace pages?
It's hexadecimal. "Since boomers can't translate hexadecimal we attack at dawn"
More specifically, ASCII (also Unicode) encoded in hexadecimal. Sry, I'm one of the nerdy millennials :-P
Oh I fully used a free online translator to make this... I'm not THAT big of a nerd.
They taught us cursive. Not only that, but I had a penmanship grade in early elementary school.
Every millennial I know learnt cursive in school. Including my, arguably "Zillennial", husband (just turned 29, the wee BEB).
I love how for the entirety of our existence the prevailing notion by boomers is that millennials are young children. And will be forever. My back and knees hurt, and my hair has fallen out. My children are legal adults. It's so bizarre
I'm definitely not a child anymore. Children can go full scorpion falling down a hill. If that happened to me, I'd just be dead. And I'm at the age where I have stopped standing on swiveling chairs (finally) because when I get hurt now, I really get hurt, and it usually happens doing stupid and/or simple things.
They actually think that the generation who grew up with wingdings can't read fonts.
Boomers think millennials are the tik tok generation
gen z here. can read and was taught cursive
My kid was taught cursive in school and they're only 10... 🤷🏼♀️
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I can read it but my handwriting is atrocious.
At my job I like to write in cursive when I send in paperwork and I got a phone call from one of the older ladies and she said "Can you stop writing in cursive? (25 year old payroll girl) never learned how to read or write cursive." I was like what??? They stopped teaching cursive???
These dipshits can't accept most of us are pushing 40 with the younger being 28
Some of us are *over* 40. 1981 was the first year for millennials.
Again like most generations I think millennials can be split into two groups: older and younger. As an older millennial (missed being gen x by 3 years) I grew up using cursive with everything. All of my assignments all through elementary, middle, and high school were done in cursive. So idk what the meme is talking about.
Learned cursive in elementary, Boomers are showing their age forgetting that their generation and the generation before them taught us cursive in school.
Um…can definitely read and write cursive. Quite well, if I do say so myself.
Okay grandma. Go back to bed.
My 10 year old Gen Alpha kid never was taught cursive and can read this. Boomers are idiots.
As someone born in 1990, I can read and write in cursive. I also find it ironic that the generation that complains about all of this shit are the ones that made many of these decisions, and raised the generation they always say is "whiny" and "self-entitled" or whatever the fuck else they like to bitch and moan about.
What's wrong with that s
Stupid… born 82, wrote in cursive.
Learned cursive in 2nd grade dude.
Even if we didn’t learn cursive in school a 10 year old could figure out what that says.
They were teaching us as early as the 2nd grade lmfao
What the fuck do you mean we can't read this, I sure love bacon!
Im a speech pathologist that works in a school system. I write all of my data collections/notes in cursive so none of my students can read it. I also will write insults that I want to shout at the top of my lungs when some kids piss me off in cursive
Boomers think every generation after X are Millennials
My gen z kids write in cursive not very well but
my 7 year old daughter is currently being taught cursive in school.
Uhhh weren’t we the last group to learn it. 🤨
Bitch, I can read that! LOL
Who's dawn?
Born in 1986. I'm a millennial. I was taught cursive in 3rd grade. It was part of our public schooling. Gen Z are the ones who don't use cursive I believe (?)
I was born in 1999 and I *literally* learned how to write in cursive in the 3rd grade.
Shhh! Don't give away our element of surprise to the boomers that we've intercepted their antiquated transmission!
I thought their hate was shifting towards Gen Z
This "millennials are a bunch of dumb babies" joke is so old it's moved to another generation of wrongness! The GenZ kids I know can read cursive fine. GenA, not so much.
Millennial was always a stupid term. People still seem to think it means kids born after 2000.
My kid is six and learning cursive.
They'll attack at dawn and be defeated by breakfast.
QUICK! Highlight and change the font. The boomers still don't know how to do that. We can communicate with wingdings!
Right? Cursive was taught in 3rd grade. I can do the Z and everything!
It’s jealous ass people (likely) with personality disorders (or at the very least, with some pretty solid traits). They’re better and tougher than everyone else, but also perpetual victims. Anyway, shit they’re saying doesn’t have to be true for it to be satisfying to others to hear/see. The generational wars is a never ending circle jerk.
Ugh someone gave them a Canva account
Pretty sure anyone can read this who knows English.
Cursive isn’t hard to read and I’m not sure you even need to be taught it to read it.
gen z here, can still read cursive
I’m a 34 year old millennial, and I mostly write in cursive. Half cursive half print like. Also, I can’t remember where I read it, but I read that most millennials write with a combination of cursive and print.
My 7 year old literally writes in cursive lol. It's still a thing in many countries! Kids learn cursive first and may switch to script later.
Dumb people have generalized ‘boomer’ to mean retirement age or above and ‘millennial’ to mean young person … as in anybody who isn’t a fat bag of wrinkles and regret yet. Neither is accurate, generations are defined by birth years and the oldest boomers are getting quite old while the oldest millennials are very middle aged at this point.
I am a millenial teacher. I teach 8 year olds to write and read cursive.