Yeah, lefty's learn to adapt.
For pencils and fast-drying pens, you become an...
For old-style ink pens and others which would smear, you become an...
Now, whether the latter style has any influence on the kid's career choice, I can't say. :0)
Posted on 07/04/2017 5:09:29 AM PDT by bgill
Louisiana’s public school classrooms will be required to teach cursive writing to students starting with the new school year.
That mandate, approved by lawmakers in 2016 but delayed a year so schools could prepare, is among more than two dozen new laws
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Not kidding...
I have a storebought left handed notebook or two. On my last trip to Office Depot, I found they were no longer in stock.
I always start an ordinary notebook with the end cover as the start and the spiral or binding on the right side. That allows writing left handed with out the encumbrance of the spiral or binding hump.
Until my mother’s dying day, she would make apologies to whomever for my being left handed.
I never learned (I tried) to shoot open eyed and I naturally wink the right eye making me a southpaw rifleman.
Nothing against left-handed writing on my part, but I know it played into the hands of the “left.”
Maybe you were supposed to be a doctor...
Not sure where you are getting “nasty” from.
Some people simply dont agree with all of this magical properties that supposedly come from a style of writing words that is perennially carped about on FR whenever the subject comes up.
It certainly doesn’t make your writing neater, make you illiterate if you don’t do it, and it doesn’t make bad writing “good”. One thing I notice is that it encourages people to write too fast, and making what they write look sloppy.
So beside just feeling smug, what is the point of it?
"From the land beyond beyond...."
Yeah, lefty's learn to adapt.
For pencils and fast-drying pens, you become an...
For old-style ink pens and others which would smear, you become an...
"From the land beyond beyond...."
The unlearned may be able to struggle through and figure out cursive, but you know as well as I do ..... if it's work, we generally don't want to do it .... and we don't.
Forgot about those left-handed notebooks. They’re great. At the office, I have the spiral-bound ones with the spirals at the top; that works.
We used pencils back then and there was a pencil sharpener in every classroom.
The old inkwell sat there but was not used on daily basis.
As a life long oppressed left handed person, I 100% agree.
When I was in college, on a whim, I took a course in calligraphy from a priest named Edward Cattich. He was supposed to be the worlds leading authority on the alphabet and handwriting. He tried to get left handers to switch but he wasn't emphatic about it and told me that if I fooled around with it long enough, I'd find that I could write fine with my left hand.
The thing that I remember the most from that class is that he told us that handwriting is anything that is done with your hand, including cursive, calligraphy and what we mistakenly called printing.
ANY and ALL printing is done by machine.
Mine is unreadable at times.
I probably drove most teachers in my school insane.
At one time, people were taught to write in a big round hand.
They tried converting me in elementary school and I was miserable.
This is good. I think it is shameful that it was ever dropped.
Our exchange student from Argentina, many years ago, told us that they learn cursive first in school, and when they get to high school, they learn manuscript. I’ve always like that plan because cursive is faster — your pen or pencil never leaves the paper except to dot and i and cross a t.
There is a warmth and personality in script writing not reflected in the digital purity of email. For example, this letter from Mark Twain to his wife wouldn't be the same in an email.
My 1st grade teacher changed me from lefty to righty. I blame her for any problems that arise in my life, haaa, not!
I never changed eating as left handers....but I also can eat, write, paint and golf left or right handed!
No it doesn’t. I have a left-handed son. I just placed his paper in the middle of his desk and he moved it so it would slant to the right. He has good writing because of that.
Parents need to be adamant with the teachers about the correct placement of the paper for a left-hander.
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