Posted on 06/28/2013 1:29:33 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight.
When asked if she could read a letter in court, witness Rachel Jeantel, her head bowed, murmured with embarrassment, "I don't read cursive," according to court testimony.
Is it any surprise that cursive -- the looped, curvaceous style of handwriting that's been a mainstay of education for generations -- is all but dead? [15 Weird Things We Do Everyday, and Why]
"Cursive should be allowed to die. In fact, it's already dying, despite having been taught for decades," Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, told The New York Times.
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“Hmmmm.... yeah... we’re supposed to use the new cover sheets now on our TPS reports. Did you see.... that memo?”
Never went away:
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Ow, my Balls would be quality programming compared to some of the stuff on TV now.
They just a) work harder and b) cheat more.
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Absolutely. Especially since your whole library could potentially be on a "cloud" somewhere. They could either "update" it to be more "understandable", or as Irenic mentioned, just turn the whole electronic library off. Especially any books not "politically correct". Just see what they did to Paula Deen just today. I started thinking about all that when I started homeschooling and then when my kids were in a classical Christian school,learning a lot of history when they did, and realizing how so much learning had been lost in different times of history.
Just take a look at Webster's 1828 Dictionary as opposed to today's unabridged dictionaries. It was the most widely used (and first) dictionary of it's kind. A very large percentage of the word definitions had Bible quotes as part of the definition. It's an absolute treasury of wisdom, but all that is mostly lost now. Webster's 1828 Dictionary
I think it’s actually a Southern thing. I myself did not hear of “cursive writing” until I met some Southerners in college. In Northern schools we always called it penmanship, or longhand — or just “writing”. We did not regard printing as “writing.”
Ironic, isn't it?
Basic literacy is dead, not just cursive.
"Everyday" has replaced "every day" mostly because most dumbass Americans have no idea how to use each in a sentence, and could care less. That includes a significant number of posters on this forum
That's just one example of how we're losing our beautiful English language.
Maybe we can all learn Spanglish. We can have nouns followed by a long series of adjectives.
Most forms were fully online or automated when I retired and the programs would tell you “Incorrect date format” if you input the wrong data. Just look up some online forms. There are still some old forms that use other formats, but most of those are legal or medical forms.
LOL. VICTORY!
That cracked me up. Of course, I've been there, too.
Was the name of the “friend” Benjamin Crump?
ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
I was with you right up to there. It's COULD NOT CARE LESS.
The nuns used metal rulers and made us hit our own hands while telling us to hit harder and harder because they couldn’t hear the hits. I always thought my fourth grade nun was an escaped gestapo member. I did, however, get straight A;s all the way until we moved and I began attending a public school.
Haven't we already?
What about replacement words?
A while back I saw an ad in the paper advertizing a camper with an outdoor “Spicket”.
I wanted to call and ask if it was only available to Mexicans or if Crackers were allowed to buy.
Try going overseas...in South America it’s: mo/dd/yr...I was always confused
Yikes! Reminds me of calculus
See post 219
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