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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

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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'm old and have seen very many signatures of cursive writers so I know that most are scrawl-like and only slightly resemble the letters they're based on. What I haven't seen is signatures of the non-cursive-knowing signers, which is why I'm asking the question and hoping to get responses from those who never learned cursive.

For people who learned cursive, it's natural and intuitive to develop a unique, flowing signature that's hard for someone else either to forge or even guess what it might look like. So my question is trying to understand if those who've only ever printed also develop unique signatures like that, or if their signatures look closer to how they would normally print their name.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 21 hours ago

For people who learned cursive, it’s natural and intuitive to develop a unique, flowing signature that’s hard for someone else either to forge or even guess what it might look like.

I learned cursive and no it fucking isn't natural and intuitive. My signature was never consistent when I tried and now I just scribble chicken scratch that doesn't even superficially resemble the letters in my name because I don't regularly write in cursive and signatures don't matter 99.99% of the time.