Posted on 07/07/2011 7:52:05 AM PDT by newzjunkey
I’m old. I was the last of those who revised papers in cursive. We wrote full hand papers for our classes, and edited them and rewrote them in cursive.
Writing as a skill in cursive is a completely different skill from typing on a keyboard. The structure is different, the words are different and the way in which a person writes changes to accommodate the machine.
I write in cursive if the letter is personal. I find that people appeciate the letter more and that the content of the letter is different.
As for not training kids, what’s the point of school? Reading, writing and arithematic. If they can’t write, then there’s no reason for them to be in school.
And not be able to sign it.
We had to have them make a mark, aka "X", and then sign our name with a note "His mark" or "Her mark" next to what they managed to scribble.
Most could not even make a decent "X".
To paraphrase the announcer for the Lone Ranger, "Come with us now as we return to those thrilling days of yesteryear......Hi-Yo Scribblers. Away."
I’m a historian. Primary document research involves reading cursive.
That’s just one reason to teach people to write and read cursive.
When did M become Mamma? It's Mike in the military.
I think you would be surprised at the numbers that still do. I know I still do, as does my husband and our just turned teenager daughter. In fact when she gets home from school this afternoon she still has 3 more to write. While she does have a tendency to procrastination, she gets it from me, she still does write thank you notes.
As I mentioned in another post, one of the requirements on her application for Governor's School was that the 3 essays had to be done in the student's handwriting, which drove her nuts because one of the essays was about the applicant's computer skills.
Hardly. One, cursive isn’t so dissimilar that someone with a lukewarm IQ can’t figure it out. Plus there are cursive fonts that you wouldn’t even need a room temperature IQ to use as a comparison. Cursive documents are never going to be hard to decipher for anyone who can read print.
OUCH - that's scary.
My daughter was taught how to use a calculator, and they do use them occasionally for certain work, but they are generally not used and they are not permitted to bring them to school. I had to refresh myself on long division when she was learning it because once I learned short division, I never went back to long.
I pretty much stick to paper and pencil with math, because I can rarely find a calculator around here and I have no clue how to use the one on my phone.
I thought sure it was mama ... you're correct ... I'm wrong.
That's the point. They are trying to dumb down the entire population to where a room temperature IQ is all there is...................Have you read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World?............
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
By the time I had gotten to 11th grade the nuns had pretty much done away with that practice...........now if you want me to talk about Sister Mary Linus in the 1st grade, that's a different story.
ROFL!!!
I’m a historian. Primary document research involves reading cursive.
That’s just one reason to teach people to write and read cursive.
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Death from a thousand paper cuts. Yes, there are many reasons for some people to learn to read and write cursive. I don’t think I’ve yet read an answer that warrants everyone doing so.
I once made 238 wpm ~ typing. You can’t touch that with a team of monkeys doing cursive.
Once you got into the content you had to realize HE WAS ONE OF THEIR OWN.
longhand ping...
Ted K is the epitome of what the Left thinks we are................living in a shack in flyover country, making bombs, scruffy and unkempt............which is their reality.................
Same with keyboarding. Not everyone needs a computer. Most people could get by just fine without one at all.
BTW, with the return to clock faces and watch faces thanks to the magic of e-ink, it will be easier for everyone. You can put up a picture with rotating hands, or a number flip thing, or run a movie of leiderhosen clad shephards flitting in and out of the cuckoo clock on the wall.
That's next year at the latest.
I'm a fan of neither.
It’s lack of being phased out isn’t a matter of laziness, it’s a matter of having better things to do with our time than relearn typing. We have multiple generations that know QWERTY by touch, there’s really no way to phase it out, you either replace it or you keep it, if you replace it then all the old typists need to relearn from scratch, so we keep it.
The way I learned about it, was that the original layout in QWERTY was done to sell, and then, slight changes or tweaks were made, but that overall, it was more for ease of demonstration and selling purposes.
Your right about the multiple generations learning by QWERTY, my view is not to get rid of it, but to simply teach children the DVORAK way instead (they can and still will learn QWERTY on their own, no one is banning anything or making any laws saying no, you can't use this). The younger generations learn it, hopefully keep it (some will, some won't), and in time, eventually, it'll be the more adopted standard. You'd be making the change or transition from the bottom (and dumping cursive while we are at it).
I always thought Esperanto was more of a sci-fi type thing. That said, I wouldn’t say I’m a proponent of DVORAK, I think its a better method, and has more advantages, but I wouldn’t say lets fight for it or anything, at most, I’d say stop teaching cursive, and let kids learn to type, and use that as the first format they learn. That would be pretty much the end of my feeling about it.
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