I’ve been wondering, if you never learned cursive writing, how do you sign your name, like on a lease or other place where you have to sign?
Do you just print your name like you would anything else? Or maybe you looked up how to write just the cursive letters needed for your signature? Or maybe invented a way to sort of connect your printed letters together so it looks like a signature? Or … ?
edit: Specifically hoping to hear from people who did not learn to write cursive, please indicate if that applies in your answer. Thanks
You must log in or register to comment.
Clearly you haven’t seen many signatures.
Mine is a scrawl that no one could identify, and I learned cursive a long, long time ago.
I’ve recently taken to drawing figures whenever I have to electronically sign something.
I’ve had customers like this. Usually they just write their name in block letters. There’s no rule that says a signature has to be written in cursive so it still works.
Too many people think it has to be cursive and your name. But a signature is just your mark showing you agree. You may have heard “Sign your X on the line.” X has become the stereotype of a mark or signature someone who can’t write would use it to sign something. It could be another shape though. The use of a cursive name as a signature is just a cultural thing. When I became an adult I thought about changing my signature to print since I hate cursive, but I decided to not relearn and be last and use what I was taught in school. Years later I realized I could at least do something mildly different like first initial middle initial and last name. But I don’t want to relearn plus most times I sign it not super important so I barely even write my name, but it’s still my signature even if squiggly lines. Lol. I save taking my time writing my signature when it is actually something important like buying a house or car.
i use digital id with a cryptographic signature. get with the times, grandpa!
more seriously: i learned cursive not because it was compulsory, but because i have fine motor issues and the teachers couldn’t read my normal handwriting. so they thought cursive would help. unfortunately i’m also left-handed, so all it did was give me cramps, make my hand dirty, and tear up the paper even more. eventually i got an alphasmart.
i’ve never even been able to make two instances of the same letter consistent, nevermind a whole word. thankfully a signature alone is not a valid identification method.
I never learned cursive (can’t even read it most of the time) but I don’t think my answer would be helpful to you. But it might be interesting.
My signature isn’t my full name, it’s just an arrangement of 3 alphanumeric symbols that has meaning to me but to anyone else probably looks like a meaningless scribble. If someone ever tries to forge my signature, they’ll almost definitely do it wrong.
But the reason my answer isn’t useful is that English isn’t my native tongue, and neither is the Latin alphabet. My native tongue is Hebrew. Hebrew cursive is very different from Latin cursive, in that the letters don’t flow into each other. It’s still “block letters”, just a different variant of them. I’ve never looked at many signatures but I think a lot of people just write their name quickly, and that inevitably involves lifting the pen from the paper between letters multiple times.
In a lot of less important contexts that require signature (e.g. receiving a package), many people just make a really quick meaningless scribble, which might look like α or φ or whatever to just get on with it. Workers asking for these signatures often humorously say “give me a scribble here” in those scenarios.
