My secret code .... otherwise known as cursive.

I enjoyed writing in code and seeing if my 16yo nephew could translate:

Secret cursive code

Yeah, they don't teach cursive in school anymore. By the way, this is my finest cursive ever. The scribbles are mainly my nephew demonstrating how he might sign his name... because this was my first line of inquiry after the whole "we don't learn cursive in school anymore." 

I told my nephew that his scribbles were, on the whole, not signatures. Probably won't work unless he's about to get conscripted by pirates. We discussed some of his attempts and agreed they were pretty solid, but more along the lines of writing his initials with a flourish -- like what you'd put on pages 1-9 of a ten page legal document on the line that says "initial here" and you can't then have your signature look exactly the same as your initials.

So then there were a few more attempts that included more letters but. Yeah. He really sort of doesn't know how to write in cursive... except there's an inexplicable plot twist:

He could read all of my (secret) cursive notes except 'zero' - it was the Z that got him. I thought the G and the S were pretty hard, but for a kid who never learned cursive, he seemed to know some cursive... so. I guess maybe (?) there's more to the "they don't teach cursive in school anymore" story. 

I may or may not ever learn the details because my nephew got bored with the code decryption so we went downstairs and played one game of pool for the next four hours. 

At least I have my cursive to fall back on because my chances of becoming a pool shark are. small.