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What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades
NY Times ^
| 6-2-14
| MARIA KONNIKOVA
Posted on 06/02/2014 9:24:43 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: windcliff
My handwriting went from bad to worse. Not much lost.
Keyboards are way easier and faster. They have the added advantage of me being able to read what I wrote.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:21:44 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: Political Junkie Too
My grandsons think I’m a real meanie. Every year at Christmas they have to sit down and write a note inside each Christmas card which goes to friends and relatives in other cities. They also have to write thank you notes for their gifts all in cursive.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:22:32 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Grams A
They also have to write thank you notes for their gifts all in cursive.Cursive is the new hieroglyphic.
-PJ
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:27:56 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: gunsequalfreedom
My handwriting went from bad to worse. Not much lost. Keyboards are way easier and faster. They have the added advantage of me being able to read what I wrote. Same with me. I've had life long eye coordination issues and cursive writing didn't help matters. Teachers dreaded seeing my work. If I write something important I want read like a note around the house I print it.
But here is something to consider. How come a person who has the best skill of hands {doctors} also usually have the worst handwriting skills? LOL.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:41:44 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: cva66snipe
We had penmanship for years at St. Mary’s. Tracing over cursive printed stuff, over and over.
My handwriting always sucked. Big fingers holding little skinny pens was incredibly awkward for me.
My fingers can type faster than I can talk or even think sometimes. They’re like a blur on the keyboard.
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posted on
06/02/2014 10:50:39 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
To: savagesusie
The history of families are handwritten on the flyleaves of Bibles and passed down from one generation to the next. What a pity for many to be unable to continue that tradition.
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:15:19 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
To: cva66snipe
I think it is in the mind not in the hands.
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:24:12 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: windcliff
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posted on
06/02/2014 11:25:19 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: windcliff
Good grief: I didn’t learn proper cursive until the 3rd grade! In Catholic school. We were too busy learning proper letter forms, spacing, with tense, gender, adjectives and proper nouns for dessert.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:12:03 AM PDT
by
Don W
(already are)
To: savagesusie
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posted on
06/03/2014 4:09:48 AM PDT
by
spankalib
("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
To: windcliff
I was talking with a young lady at a store recently while I waited for a prescription to be filled and somehow the subject of handwriting came up. I inquired as to whether she (who appeared to be in her very early 20s) had been taught cursive writing in school. No, she said. I asked as how she was able to sign her name when required. She said her mother taught her how.
What a changed world we live in.
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posted on
06/03/2014 4:27:32 AM PDT
by
OldPossum
("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
To: dalereed
They’ll just use their thumbprint.
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posted on
06/03/2014 4:38:21 AM PDT
by
goldi
To: catnipman
I for one wont miss cursive writing. Did you never receive nicely written notes and letters from girlfriends in your school days?
I suppose the modern equivalent would be phone texts... how sad.
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posted on
06/03/2014 5:31:00 AM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Max in Utah
“Did you never receive nicely written notes and letters from girlfriends in your school days?”
Uh, it wasn’t notes and letters from them that I was interested in ...
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:07:16 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: dalereed
It is more likely that it will be a thumb print One problem I see with the failure to teach writing is that no one would be able to keep a private journal, as Winston Smith did in 1984. these kids will not even be able to think about writing on paper. Everything will be on line.
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posted on
06/03/2014 9:00:05 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: savagesusie
They will not be able to read many of the original documents like the Constitution and items like John Adams letters to his wife, etc. without cursive.No, they won't. You are right.
It reminds me of how the Progressives, at the beginning of the 20th century, gradually convinced everyone that Latin and ancient Greek were "dead" languages and had no place in a modern, democratic curriculum.
That accomplished, no longer would Americans be able to read, in the original, the long 2,500 year history of those ancient civilizations that led to European civilization, the Enlightenment, and, eventually, the United States. Our ties to the past were lost.
Quite by design.
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posted on
06/03/2014 4:18:08 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
To: BfloGuy
These were probably same progressives that told me I’d never be able to get by in America without learning the metric system.
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posted on
06/10/2014 3:03:18 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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