'Duck Dynasty' Star Also Under Fire for African-American Statements

[Thunder_Snus]

I'd be interested to know if any of you can write in cursive? I'm constantly amazed at "younger" people not being able to read my cursive writing (and I write very well). It's not that this person is illiterate, but it's no longer being taught in schools. It's viewed as antiquated, not needed. I've personally taught my own children to write in cursive, if for no other reason...OUR CONSTITUTION and Bill of rights are written in cursive, lol.

We learned cursive in 2nd grade here and apparently I was the only one who used it after that. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in college that a teacher finally asked me to stop and that was when i realized I was the only person i knew that still used cursive. In all honesty i lost my ability to write normally. All of my letters are different sizes and i can't keep a straight line with it, but it helps my teachers to not think I am writing in Arabic. I still take class notes/personal notes i jot down to myself in cursive but for test taking and whatnot i will use traditional writing. Luckily where I work I have never needed to write anything except my signature.

If anyone is interested german had a form of writing similar to our cursive and almost all the letters look similar, i can't seem to remember what it was called. It was officially banned by hitler during his rule because it was "too jewish." Also it was incredibly hard to read especially because people would write it incredibly sloppily which is what a lot of people tend to do with cursive, especially a classroom full of 2nd graders who have not mastered regular writing yet.

[CoderGuy]

I can never understand this. I only had to work briefly in the retail environment but when someone hands you money you just type in how much on the register and it will tell you the change. Even if you aren't quick with math you can easily just type in the ammount they gave you and it should dawn on you that that came to a good increment of 5/10 whatever.

In theory, yes, but I never get that far, they are too baffled and try and hand it back before even trying it. At a Taco Bell this happened, and she finally had to call the manager over to tell her she didn't know what I wanted. Lucky for me, the manager had a little more sense and just looked and me and shrugged and gave me my change. LOL

[Andy105]

We learned cursive in 2nd grade here and apparently I was the only one who used it after that. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in college that a teacher finally asked me to stop and that was when i realized I was the only person i knew that still used cursive. In all honesty i lost my ability to write normally. All of my letters are different sizes and i can't keep a straight line with it, but it helps my teachers to not think I am writing in Arabic. I still take class notes/personal notes i jot down to myself in cursive but for test taking and whatnot i will use traditional writing. Luckily where I work I have never needed to write anything except my signature.

If anyone is interested german had a form of writing similar to our cursive and almost all the letters look similar, i can't seem to remember what it was called. It was officially banned by hitler during his rule because it was "too jewish." Also it was incredibly hard to read especially because people would write it incredibly sloppily which is what a lot of people tend to do with cursive, especially a classroom full of 2nd graders who have not mastered regular writing yet.

It's called Suetterlin. I'm German. My mother wrote like that...

[Thunder_Snus]

It's called Suetterlin. I'm German. My mother wrote like that...
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Now that is something i would not be able to read or write.

[Skell18]

Now that is something i would not be able to read or write.

It is in German that pic which is maybe why you can't read it (unless you can read German).

[Thunder_Snus]

It is in German that pic which is maybe why you can't read it (unless you can read German).

I can read and understand german at an ok level. I can pick out a few words on there. looks like lieb and then am "something" so they are probably saying they live on "near/within reach of" a certain landmark or city. Then it looks like ohne at the end which is without but it looks capitalized so perhaps the last letter is something else and it is an object or persons name

[Skell18]

I can read and understand german at an ok level. I can pick out a few words on there. looks like lieb and then am "something" so they are probably saying they live on "near/within reach of" a certain landmark or city. Then it looks like ohne at the end which is without but it looks capitalized so perhaps the last letter is something else and it is an object or persons name

See, you can read it

[truthwolf1]

It's not just the south. A young man (17 or 18) came up to me at lunch once, and asked me for the time. I held up my wristwatch for him, and he said "I can't read that kind" (analog). I told him it was 14:30, and he left angry. He'll probably be a congressman in a few years.

That is odd. When I travel to eastern europe everyone uses military time which confuses the hell out of me after 13:00 hours.

[lxskllr]

I like 24hr time. I always used it on my time sheets, and anything that requires math. It makes the math easy. I don't know it well enough to provide instant translation though. There's a couple spots where I have to think about it for a couple seconds.

[Crow]

I use the 24 hour clock for all timekeeping myself. I've only had one person ask me how it works............. She must have been a foreigner from another one of the American states where they never taught their offspring the joyous wonders of the 24 hour clock (alongside the 12 hour clock)............. Gd bless her soul.............

I also use the DD-MM format of datekeeping... Surprisingly, not a single person has been thrown off by this. Score one for Cascadian Americans!

[DanF]

That is odd. When I travel to eastern europe everyone uses military time which confuses the hell out of me after 13:00 hours.

I like 24hr time. I always used it on my time sheets, and anything that requires math. It makes the math easy. I don't know it well enough to provide instant translation though. There's a couple spots where I have to think about it for a couple seconds.

During my cop days we lived and logged every report, incident, and movement, by 24 hour time.

You got to know what 24 hundred hours was real fast.

Dan

[lxskllr]

I also use the DD-MM format of datekeeping... Surprisingly, not a single person has been thrown off by this. Score one for Cascadian Americans!

I prefer that format, but I never used it. There wasn't enough benefit for the potential hassle it could create. It's much more logical than the American system.

[Andy105]

General's 'best by' dates are mm/dd/yyyy in the US, and dd/mm/yyyy when I get them from Sweden. I almost made an ass out of myself at a gas station buying snus here, until I realized at the last moment it was in the US format. Duh!
I thought that they were trying to sell me old snus, but it wasn't. Why does life have to be so complicated?

[lxskllr]

General's 'best by' dates are mm/dd/yyyy in the US, and dd/mm/yyyy when I get them from Sweden. I almost made an ass out of myself at a gas station buying snus here, until I realized at the last moment it was in the US format. Duh!
I thought that they were trying to sell me old snus, but it wasn't. Why does life have to be so complicated?

My biggest piss off is the lack of metric use in the US. There's as much reason to use English measurement as there is Roman numerals, IOW, none. It's stupid. cumbersome, and makes life needlessly difficult. It forces you to do math to interpret the system before you even get to the math you really want to do.

[Andy105]

My biggest piss off is the lack of metric use in the US. There's as much reason to use English measurement as there is Roman numerals, IOW, none. It's stupid. cumbersome, and makes life needlessly difficult. It forces you to do math to interpret the system before you even get to the math you really want to do.

Amen, to that. A mile is 5,280 ft. A quarter mile is 1,320 ft. What a pain! The math is so much simpler in divisions of tens. Fahrenheit is goofy too, when compared to C. Water SHOULD freeze at zero and boil at a hundred. I wasn't born in the US, but I've been here since I was a child. These things should make more sense to me by now.