Maybe they should teach this skill.
A lot of our Grandfathers made an X in indelible pencil.
Posted on 04/05/2019 1:34:00 PM PDT by bgill
I am afraid it is too late for me. I am left handed and my right handed cursive penmanship teachers gave up on me 60 years ago. my printmanship is only slightly better.
I am open to suggestions on how to improve my handwriting.
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What claptrap. Like no one can function without keyboard skills. Speech to text is well beyond your writing speed. Who knew all you really need is thumbs.
A lot of our Grandfathers made an X in indelible pencil.
Just improve your keyboard skills or use speech to text on your smart phone.
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Most of these kids can’t type either.
“Cursive fonts have been available for PCs since the early 1980’s.”
Yes I am aware. Guess my sarcasm got lost in translation as I meant to convey they they certainly aren’t going to expect students today to use pen and paper. :-)
I'd have to go back quite a few generations to find an illiterate ancestor. I'm actually not aware of any such person in my family tree, though I'm sure there must have been some.
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Do you sign your name on documents with an X?
If you ever wrote a check, did you just use block letters?
Cursive writing and signatures eliminates most forgeries.
When I first began reading your posting, I was getting mad.
As I read further, I realized it was sarcasm (well done).
Ending with a sarc tag might prevent some folks from believing what you wrote was true.
I agree with you.
I would not have served in a management role at a major defense contractor for over 25 years if I could only write in block letters, like a 3-year old kid.
Might be because the latest crop of teachers can’t TEACH cursive writing, because they don’t have the skill.
Thanks. That’s a good sample of how the NEA dumbs down students and generations.
It is a mistake to not teach them cursive. Most will never have a good handwriting, but imagine how bland life would be if the signers of the Declaration of Independence could not have expressed their anger and disgust without cursive.
And think about writing checks. Will it come to the point that the only cursive they know is your signature.
Oh, I forgot, we will use biometric identification? I pass on that.
And the day that we only have electronic currency? Head shake.
They do learn shorthand.
It’s now called leetspeak.
Emoticons are some of the primary characters used.
I guess they don’t even need that if they just use their phone as a recording device. I wonder if there is an app that converts actual speech into leetspeak or some other type of actual shorthand, so u could take the teachers lecture and then read it as quick condensed notes.
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The beauty of effective sarcasm is that it is almost indistinguishable from reality. Unfortunately we live in an age in which every crazy idea imaginable is espoused by someone. So, it is often hard to tell the difference.
Yeah, it was probably not nice of me to leave off the “/s” but I sometimes do because it operates like a spoiler that everyone sees before they’ve actually read the comments. And that robs them of the sudden realization that it is sarcasm—like you experienced. Achieving that is half of the fun.
“And think about writing checks. Will it come to the point that the only cursive they know is your signature.”
Nah. Thats what rubber stamps and autopens are for.
And the day we only have electronic currency? Handwritten letters? Whats that?
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