Signatures Anonymous

       If cursive handwriting is no longer taught (it's already being allowed to disappear from school curricula), what of signatures?

       Can one's printed name be considered a signature?  In my lexicon, a signature is handwritten, and I do mean "written," not printed.

       And what becomes of handwriting experts?  They can identify people from the peculiarities of their writing, but maybe and maybe not from their printing.

       If someone says, "Put your John Hancock here," we know what it means from that flourishing signature on the Declaration of Independence.  Has all that gone overboard in a flood of "texting"?