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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do any universities or research students need anyone to read aloud a cursive text? I have free time, and I wanted to offer myself up as someone who could read a large text aloud. You could take my audio and use a tool to transcribe it.

I also have experience with old English / early modern English pronunciation.[/quote]

Has education really gone so far downhill in the last couple decades that this is a viable thing?

I cannot imagine someone being allowed to graduate grade school, much less HS, without being able to at least read cursive writing. They should also know how to write in cursive. Public schools used to require proficiency in it by at least 4th grade. [/quote]

No, my kindergartener and his cladsmates can read cursive and I doubt they're the only ones.  Now can they read sloppy cursive?  Probably not.  But they can't ready sloppy print either.

Now I read Middle English in college (what makes that even messier is there are multiple dialects of middle English) and reading older texts does take a second to learn.   But it's not terribly hard to learn and anyone reading Middle English or doing ancient manuscript texts even on an undergrad level would have learned it.[/quote]

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