[Marius3188]

Interesting thought.

I must confess that my spelling has gotten worse since using Word. It's my fault for being lazy.

[Shady]

Having had my right index finger's first joint amputated without anesthetic when I was 11 years old, my use of the 'puter is a godsend. I can still communicate!

[HiTech RedNeck]

In Britain.... [o]nly in the 1930s was the semi-cursive or joined-up style known as round hand developed. Most schools now teach a variant of this.

I wonder what Gilbert and Sullivan, the famed Victorian era British operetta writers, were talking about in the song "When I Was A Lad" in H. M. S. Pinafore, penned in the late 1800s, when they wrote "... and I copied all the letters in a big round hand."

[prisoner6]

Yuppers, handwritting, spelling, lots of other skills are evolving or just going away. OTOH typing skills ARE improving as is conciseness, creativity and perhaps overall communication.

Plus I just wanted to get onto this thread because I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered...

prisoner6

[Hardastarboard]

I always tease the clerks in the store when they capture my signature electronically that we have all that technology and yet they can't make my handwriting any better. They never get it.

[Americanexpat]

My handwriting is so bad it would have to be euthanasia.

[leadpenny]

I print because I can't read my handwriting. Does that count?

[Casaubon]

agreed

you should see what 18-25 yr olds put on job aps these days.
most here would shake their heads in dismay.

some can barely write their own names.
worse some kids use netspeak on aps.

[benjaminjjones]

I, for one, am glad.

I hated trying to decipher someone else's script. My Mom's script is particularly difficult to read.

I had horrible script handwriting myself .

On the other hand, once I learned to draft, and worked in the industry for a few years, had excellent block letters, and it was almost as fast as writing script.

I wrote everything in block draft after that.

I even learned to draft left-handed when I almost chopped off my right arm in a motorcycle accident.

It messed with my brain a bit to have to work with the opposite side, but I got pretty good at it.

As far as spelling goes, I was raised mostly in the pre-computer era, so I rarely have spelling errors, but still spell-check everything.

I wish some of the kids on FR would hit that "Spell" button more often, as it annoys me when I see horrible spelling errors, and denigrates their posts.

[Man50D]

Interesting thought. I must confess that my spelling has gotten worse since using Word. It's my fault for being lazy.

I respetfuly dizagre. Mi Speling haz not ben efected sins uzing the computer. Th computer haz not chanjed my abilitee to rite. Th articl iz veri mizleadin!

[Navydog]

I do believe that hand writing will become a lost art....just like most kids these days can't tell time on a Non-digital clock.

[Fintan]

This is just plane ridikulus.

[woofer]

must confess that my spelling has gotten worse since using Word.

Mine's gotten better!

Spell-checker is your friend, as long as you remember your synonyms.

[razorback-bert]

Spelling, let us talk of grammar.


I often have to read something five or six time to understand what is being written.


Journalists are the worse offenders.

[Personal Responsibility]

I grew up before computers and my handwriting was god-awful. It still is, but now I can type everything. I am very, very thankful that embarassment is out of my life.

[The_Victor]

My handwriting was always atrocious. When I became and engineer I learned to letter everything, but at least now I can write legibly.

[R. Scott]

I must confess that my spelling has gotten worse since using Word. It's my fault for being lazy.

For me it has been the opposite. After seeing some words underlined in red so often I have learned to spell them correctly.
It also helps me because my handwriting has always been nearly unreadable. When I had to fill out a ship’s logbook I would laboriously write the entries out slowly and carefully – and it could still be hard to read.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I've switched to voice recognition.

It's my cheesier.

[Max in Utah]

I still get compliments on my handwriting, even though it's not as good as it used to be (like most things these days :). I find that I get writer's cramp now by the end of one page.

[Terabitten]

I fail to see why the "loss" of handwriting skills really matters. The point of handwriting was to communicate without physically present, and electronic communication fills that task admirably.

One may as well lament the lack of people able to accurately press cuneiform into clay tablets.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I must confess that my spelling has gotten worse since using Word.

That's interesting.  Programs with real-time spell check have vastly improved my spelling. 

It's become something of a low-key video game for me:  if the red line appears under a word when I space-bar away from it, I "lose a point".