slo’s MONDAY 10/20 poll - Printing vs Cursive Writing ✏️

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Also...is there anything that says a signature needs to be in cursive?

What is someone's signature isn't actually in cursive though? Is that allowed?

Signature means your unique way of putting your name on it. The banks are supposed to match it up with what you used when you opened the account, same as your CC although due to regulation laws matching the back of someone's car with their DLs for example became obsolete when consumer protection laws updated, it doesn't mean the way you sign your name isn't there. I was so happy when I worked in retail and we stopped having to ask for people's IDs in order to semi-check the signatures.

Think about forms that ask you to print your name and then sign your name, that is done for a reason (to match your identity). Many people, like my husband, do like one or two big swoops of a letter and the rest is ineligible. For me I typically only do that with the last several letters of my name.

When we signed our mortgage papers some of the docs wanted our signatures and then some of the pages wanted our initials only.

I'm sure over decades these things will change as times change but there are still a decent amount of things that are still set up the old way of looking at things.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

And I’m not sure you read the line where I said in the life I live.

I believe people have to, much less than they did 10 years ago and much more than they will need to in 10 years.

A signature will soon only have value as a collectors item.

Sure like travel agents it will hang around for specific purposes for a while.

But like land lines, cash, newspapers, etc, the signature is less and less needed.

Kdonnel you asked the question, people answered. Only you are opting to tell someone else their experience is non-existent. I sure haven't advised there aren't times where e-sign exists. The conversation isn't about what stuff out there is less and less. That's what I meant by you're not seeing what people wrote because they didn't dispute that. You asked what situations you would need to. People answered you.

To put another way you're arguing a point that no one was arguing in the first place.

 

[kdonnel]

Kdonnel you asked the question, people answered. Only you are opting to tell someone else their experience is non-existent. I sure haven't advised there aren't times where e-sign exists. The conversation isn't about what stuff out there is less and less. That's what I meant by you're not seeing what people wrote because they didn't dispute that. You asked what situations you would need to. People answered you.

To put another way you're arguing a point that no one was arguing in the first place.

Based on my experiences I was curious how often people sign their signature and then I pointed out how I think it will be even less often in the future.

Not sure where you think I am arguing with anyone?

I did mention where my experience differs, I don’t think having different experiences is arguing unless I am doing that wrong like how I don’t endorse checks.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Based on my experiences I was curious how often people sign their signature and then I pointed out how I think it will be even less often in the future.

Not sure where you think I am arguing with anyone?

I did mention where my experience differs, I don’t think having different experiences is arguing unless I am doing that wrong like how I don’t endorse checks.

When you ignored other people when they were giving their experiences in response to your inquiry.

3 people gave you examples of when they needed to write their signature and each one you just responded with either why they were doing it wrong because they should just do it this other way (when they aren't writing the rules) or instances when you haven't had to. (and I also have to do signature when voting in my state, amongst a few other examples people gave that I also encounter).

I mean we all have had times where we haven't had to but there are times where people have and in recent enough times, to me that kinda should have been the end of it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The issue isn't so much learning to WRITE cursive, it is having the ability to READ it. I have run into people who can't read cursive because they never learned to write it.

That's a valid point especially with harder letters like lowercase "m" and "n". You'd have to use context clues on what a word is most likely be which is what people often do anyhow when they can't read someone's handwriting but it's probably more work if someone wasn't taught to write it so their brain has less recognition of it from past memories.