Posted on 08/04/2009 3:17:55 PM PDT by Borges
I first realized this when I would go to the park and write in a notebook. My thoughts would come to me faster than my poor hands could keep up.
Keyboards, computers and typewriters have spoiled us...
Speaking of typewriters... no one uses those anymore either, eh? :)
We're living on the bit system. (Currency included)
Bump for later.
Awhile back I was at work, walking down a hallway and heard a weird noise coming from an office. I took a look and asked what it was. The lady turned around with a puzzled look on her face and told me it was a typewriter. I'd never heard one used in person before.
I am from the generation that was drilled in penmanship and spent hours in primary school doing writing exercises in the Palmer Method. Sadly I never write anything except on a computer and pay bills electronically so I seldom even sign my name on checks. In stores were I have to use a stylus for an electronic signature the result is often a jumble as the stylus cannot adequately mimic the actions of a pen.
Because ones handwriting reflects the architecture of the mind.
Aristotle
Mine is NOT done well, and I think faster than I can write, so it is frustrating. Computers, spell check — aahh.
I use printed caps when I write cursive.
And can’t you print Chinese on the computer, if you have your keyboard set up correctly?
I could get away - sometimes - with telling the critic that I'd had polio as a kid.....it worked occasionally in shutting 'em up.
I gave up cursive right after high school. Only way I could keep up with taking notes in college was to print
Me too - I simply could not read my own notes. The only way I could think to continue studying was to switch to printing and hope I could keep up with the lecturer. It worked.
Ha! I’m just old, LOL. Plus, I spent first grade in a little farm town school where lst and 2nd grade were combined with one teacher. Those were the days.
It’s not supposed to be a simulation. Guitar Hero is a rhythm game, it’s Dance-Dance revolution without all the jumping around (it’s the exact same color bar waterfall). Then of course you have to plug the damn thing in first, if you’ve got the whole band setup that’s a lot of complicated plugging in.
And the texting isn’t just about the typing, first you’ve got to figure how to get to the texting app.
The fact is our kids learn some pretty darn complicated stuff just being alive today. They grow up on computers, know how to run DVDs, DVRs, and cellphones with more computing power than put men on the moon. Yeah maybe they aren’t learning how to write cursive, but that’s largely because nobody writes cursive anymore, pen to paper is a buggy whip concept.
I'd LOVE to be able to use an abacus. I don't have one.
I once did a timed test with my old fashioned manual E6B flight calculator, doing time/speed/distant calculations against a guy with an electronic E6B. Difference in speed? About a second. Ain't nothing wrong with old calculators.
Yep, calligraphy over there must be going through basically the same transition as handwriting is over here. It’s at best a curiosity, a fun thing to be able to show off.
I’m a lefty. With benign essential tremor. And I flunked handwriting all my life.
But I have a keyboard.
I win.
In high school, in the 70s, I tended to use cursive or printing interchangeably.
Then I went to France for a year as an exchange student. Their form of cursive is quite different from ours; no one could read my handwriting (although I wrote fairly neatly). As a result, I printed everything. Now, I can barely write in cursive; I only use it to sign my name on checks.
Maybe or maybe not... The Eastern cultures put MUCH more emphasis on "calligraphy" than we Westerners can imagine. It is a highly prized art there.
Given how their languages get written it makes sense to put more emphasis on calligraphy. And it’s also an art, but technology should be having the same effect on general non-art writing there as here. People rarely need to put pen to paper anymore, which is making utilitarian writing go away. Artistic writing might be sticking around, but we have art classes too.
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