Cursive

Poyt your hand in myeee and we’ll be joyfoy and feel goyidd.Typed out, this looks like gobbledygook. Sing it, though, and it might sound more familiar. That’s thanks to a vocal trend that quietly took over popular music – and, 15 years after it was named, is still thriving.A tweet by a singer named Trackdroppa in 2009 dubbed it “cursive singing”, and it might be summed up like this: a vocalist adds extra vowel sounds to syllables, creating what are known as diphthongs, and leaves out consonants at the ends of some words.…

There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ol’ cursive handwriting seems better at promoting learning than typing, and if we want to pump smarter kids out of our classrooms, we should probably be shoving pencils and pens into their hands.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie The study, first spotted by the Register, measured 36 students’ brains as…

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and downs of a new California law that requires the teaching of cursive writing, which has been cast aside as obsolete in the digital age. But cursive is making a comeback amid concerns that learning to use a keyboard had superseded handwriting skills that are important for intellectual development — and also that a new…

ChromeOS version 102 is now available as an update for Chromebooks, bringing three new features, including the rollout of a new Cursive app, improvements for magnification, and some new alerts relating to USB-C cables. If you’re on a Chromebook that supports a stylus, the new Cursive app should be the biggest highlight for you. This app originally launched last year on select new Chromebooks, and now Google says it is rolling out to all Chromebooks with a stylus. Cursive makes it easier to capture, edit, and organize…