So are music in schools, matching pitches, and rhythm exercises..
The last hope for cursive handwriting was: the Apple Newton.
Cursive gave better handwriting accuracy with faster input than printing.
Alas, “egg freckles” was cursive’s last gasp. It’s dead, it just hasn’t stopped moving yet.
Handwriting practice is also a good way to be more prepared to keep business records and continue business correspondence after, say, a nukefest—a possibility in our future. Our computing and communications infrastructure is increasingly fragile.
Interesting article. I seldom write in longhand any more. The only time I do is when I’m talking on the phone and want to record what I’m being told.
I keep a daily log on my laptop, just because it’s so easy. One of the best features is it allows me to easily search to quickly find out what happened when. Honestly, writing longhand now just feels like a chore. When communicating with people now, I usually test with my phone.
Amen to that. Our brains are too wired to these keyboards now. I can still sign my name longhand with no problem, but if I have to do something like personalize a Christmas card, my writing looks like I have some sort of palsy, and it’s frustrating. What will people be doing a generation or two from now, leaving a biometric thumbprint to say, ‘Happy Birthday’? Scanning a barcode to see what the sender typed?
-PJ
Recently I came across a handwritten letter from Mom to Grandma shortly after I was born. It goes into some detail about the way I took DC by storm on day one. Fat chance ever finding or seeing that if it were an email. Fat chance this entire post is true.
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I find I can barely write any more! Not used to it!
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My thumbs are so sore I can scarcely write any more.
Then these psychologists will be happy to note, via visible evidence on YouTube, that the Pagan sector of society touts their recording by hand, in their bullet journals, dream journals, shadow work journals, their grimoires and Book of Shadows, all in their own hand!
