Posted on 10/30/2011 5:16:14 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
When asked for their John Hancock, future generations might print it in block letters or scrawl some scribbles across the page. But odds are, they won't sign their name in cursive.
They might not even be able to read it.
Cursive, with its graceful loops and perfectly joined letters, seems soon to join the typewriter, VCR player and flip-phone as relics of a past age. Keyboarding skills, not cursive, were included in the Common Core, a set of national academic standards adopted last year by more than 40 states, including Florida.
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Wrong, the comma there is perfectly appropriate.
You must either be a liberal or a teenager. You apparently don't care that Americans are losing the ability of written communication.
Have you ever been to a country filled with illiterates? I have. It's called Afghanistan.
Being unable to write is a terrible thing. We are losing our language and we're a nation in decline.
My judging others on how they post on an internet forum is not ridiculous.
Reading letters of previous ages is quite interesting. Literate people from 100 or 200 years ago make our writing look like grunts and growls. What to speak of handwriting.
I totally agree. My dad was just a country boy that worked in a factory. His handwriting was beautiful. Kids learned things in school back then.
I prefer analog as well - it gives me a visual reference to where I am in the day. As an idiot - with a digital I find myself converting it to analog to put me in the “time-space” reference.
My son luckily learned cursive. He is in high-school right now, and is on his fourth page of history notes for the evening. I can’t imagine how long it would take him to make notes of each and every paragraph of his AP History book if he didn’t know cursive.
My “cursive” has become a mix and match of “regular” and cursive characters. If I write a thank you note or something I use all caps - better chance that the reader will actually be able to read it!
Signature aside, the last time I used cursive in earnest was on the Apple Newton.
Not kidding. That thing’s marginal handwriting recognition was better with cursive than printing.
There exists software that will generate a custom font implementing your personal handwriting. Just think: the Obamacare bill printed out in your handwriting!
“The comma before the “and” isn’t needed in your sentence.”
Okay, help me out with that. I have always believed that a comma was used before a conjunction.
Writing should be more about the content, rather than aesthetics. I always found that cursive simply made it faster for me to get my thoughts on paper, so it was used.
Penmanship was much more important before the widespread use of typewriters and, more recently, word processors. If you couldn’t write legibly you couldn’t communicate in the past. Any letter I compose today, personal or professional, is done on the computer.
Spelling is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. In this day, when almost every misspelled word is pointed out to you it seems like laziness. The other one that bugs me is the misuse of words such as their, they’re, and there, and your and you’re. That’s just poor grammar. However, I refuse to be the grammar police. If I understand your thought, the rest is between you, and your keyboard.
my hand hurts just looking at the pic!
———It is typeface, not font.-——
Hmmm.... we live and we learn from those who know
Good for you mom for teaching you that. A Spencerian hand is beautiful. I taught mine D’Nealian, they’ve lost it as well.
you=your. Sheesh, shouldn’t type before coffee.......
“It is a needed life skill like Morse code, sewing, butchering a hog, ice fishing, or shoeing a horse.
I don’t see how one could survive without these critical skills. “
We butchered a hog this weekend with the help of our 9 year old home-schooled son. He knows cursive writing, and goes ice fishing, too.
That is exactly what is happening. Texas has a project going to image all of the birth and death records. To make them usable, though, they have to be indexed. We are having trouble finding enough youngsters who can read cursive handwriting to interpret what is written on the forms and transcribe them onto a computer for the indexing.
Some years ago I realized my handwriting had become (even more) atrocious. So I got an italics book from the libary, a regular ink (not ball point etc, real liquid ink that I had to refill) and trained myself to have good (or relatively so) handwriting. It was fun and lasted a while. Now I”m back to really bad handwriting again. Time to break out the pen and book...
Good for you! Cheers!
I have Osmiroid tips but need an Osmiroid handle. Any ideas of where to find one? I’ve never done Ebay...
I really need to practice again. IMO the utter dependence on copmuters to write with will eventually backfire, just as utter dependence on calculators has made a generations unable to do simple arithmatic.
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