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red_ajah

Words. Lovely words.

Jul 26, 2009 13:35

Found this article on Time.com: Mourning the Death of Handwriting
Interesting - I really like one part of the article:

"People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly ( Read more... )

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rivlee July 26 2009, 19:12:49 UTC

I have horrible penmanship. Horrid. Print, cursive, cunieform, it doesn't matter. Yet every story I write, paper I compose, article I create, starts off in a handwritten copy that is done in cursive. It is still my default to write in cursive. Whenever I write fast it's this mixture of print and cursive. I think it is an education thing though. When I was still living in NY we were forced to do cursive writing every single day, with that special paper with the lines and stuff? I don't know its name, but when we moved down to NC they couldn't care less about us writing in cursive, or our handwriting, as long as we could spell. I failed on both accounts. Whoops.

(This is also why you need to go read The Phantom Tollbooth. Even though it was published in 1961, after reading this post, I am sure you will get the message of and appreciate the book.)

red_ajah July 26 2009, 19:35:14 UTC

Oh my gosh - I forgot about that paper!
It was triple lined I think? With the lines super close to each other or at least 2 of them? I know what you're talking about. Shit, I wonder if you can still get that paper?
Yeah, they made us use it that at one point then stopped and they didn't give a rat's ass after I guess.

Yeah - that's probably why my peers and I did start to try and write in cursive but as we found out when we had to do super dictation, yeah, cursive didn't work so well for that so I think that's when we got the cursive written out of most us, haha~

It's on my wishlist. Really it is!

shampoo_neko02 July 26 2009, 22:27:11 UTC

Yeah...I don't write in cursive.
I don't even think I remember how.! -_-
But yeah I remember in 4th grade we had to learn how to write in cursive but then every year after that no one cared.

Now when I try to write in cursive it takes me longer than it does to write in print.

red_ajah July 27 2009, 04:07:06 UTC

It is hard and it ends up looking like chicken scratches, lol!
It's a dying art I guess, like those people who can do pretty fonts free hand @.@

trekqueen July 27 2009, 16:02:04 UTC

well if it makes you feel better, when I talked to teens on Friday about computers and being an engineer, I told them not to blow off English class. :D

I tend to write a combination all my own of cursive/non-cursive that doesn't look too sloppy yet rather unique. Though, for my notes at work, I do it in basic non-cursive script cuz it is easier to read when I need to glance quickly at my paper for acronyms and what not.

What really annoys me? That bubbly cursive so many girls write in, my sis does that, and it just annoys the crap out of me!

red_ajah July 29 2009, 05:13:24 UTC

Why thank you -_- You math/science types seem to quite frequently do. My friend said she found English "hard".
Wtf? That math she was doing was almost pure letters!

I know what you mean! All super loopy. Oh my gosh, remember the ones who used to put hearts on the letters, lol!