Mourning the Death of Handwriting

Time ^ | 08/03/09 | Claire Suddath

[cripplecreek]

I can't remember how to write a capital Z in cursive.

LOL I know the feeling.

[qwertypie]

Finally, TIME has met its level of competence.

[Star Traveler]

I gave up on writing... been typing since 1960.... :-)

[KoRn]

So do I. lol

The other day I went to write a check, and had to think about it for a second. It was the first check I’d written in years.

[rebelskid]

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/cursive/animation/uppercase.htm

a refresher for everyone!

[La Lydia]

Alexander McCarter sounds insufferable.

[snarks_when_bored]

Mourning the Death of Handwriting

Our kids hunt-and-peck on tiny keyboards, and, instead of actually playing the guitar, hit large colored buttons on a plastic simulacrum of a guitar. Meanwhile, Japanese and Korean and Chinese students study extremely intricate calligraphic techniques, training their hands, their eyes and their minds to deal with complexity.

Kiss it all bye-bye, America.

[willgolfforfood]

Yeah... who carZe?

[posterchild]

The last major amount of writing I did was in college in a russian language course. The vast majority of everything I did in english was typed. That cyrillic messed up my english cursive for many years.

[GeronL]

My 3rd grade teacher mourned the death of handwriting!

My 5th grade teacher had to go to the 4th grade teacher to get my papers graded

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The rest of my letters are shaky and stiff, my words slanted in all directions.

Yup, same here. After spending my entire adult life using computers, my handwriting would embarrass most doctors. And my poor third grade teacher put so much effort into teaching us kids how to write in cursive LOL.

[Clara Lou]

A cursive capital Z is quite forgettable. So it the cursive capital Q.

[LauraJean]

I still write in cursive but every once in a while a lapse into printing.

[InvisibleChurch]

The capital letter “Q” has always vexed me.

[Conservative4Ever]

Been printing since 5th grade. Maaaaaannnny moons ago.

[UB355]

My cursive is block letters tied together with squiggles.

[discostu]

You ever actually tried to load up Guitar Hero or send text messages? There’s a lot of complexity in our little toys. and I don’t think most of the Japanese, Korean and Chinese kids are really spending a lot of time doing intricate calligraphy. They get computers too.

[Rodebrecht]

What a terribly inane and silly article.

[duckman]

I have the same problem with long division. Using a calc for so long, I just forgot how to do the division quickly.