I have some letters written to my grandmother from her family. Of course it's all cursive. I can't make out a lot of words. Only going by context I can guess. Unless good penmanship cursive is sloppy and hard to read. Cursive is like shorthand (that I wasted two years of school learning) not really needed anymore. My grandson asked me how do you write in cursive. I said connect while writing all your letters together in a word without stopping. After a bit of practice he said that was easy and faster than printing. I could read his cursive!