The future of writing - Page 2

Mr Quatro · 09-11-13, 05:38 PM

I read this on the web several months ago too ... I think it was Ohio had already decided to stop teaching cursive writing.

I guess keyboards and text messaging will be the norm ...

What about personality ... there really is something about hand writing analyzes from a person hand and mind on the paper. I sincerely believe this is a big mistake.

My older friends have beautiful hand writing and my children can't even spell.

Aktungbby · 09-12-13, 04:25 AM

[QUOTE=Mr Quatro;2113036]
hat about personality ... there really is something about hand writing analyzes from a person hand and mind on the paper. I sincerely believe this is a big mistake.[QUOTE]

Damn straight!

I never hire anyone whose writing tilts to the left. They're unstable and contrary!

Wolferz · 09-13-13, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Damn straight!

I never hire anyone whose writing tilts to the left. They're unstable and contrary!

Probably liberals too.

Armistead · 09-14-13, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by August

Us left handers have more than our share of trouble handwriting especially cursive.

I wrote with my hand all reached over in common left hand style. I then taught myself to write correctly and my writing improved greatly.

TorpX · 09-14-13, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

I then taught myself to write correctly and my writing improved greatly.

Do you mean you now write with your right hand, or just a different left-hand style?

Aktungbby · 09-14-13, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

I wrote with my hand all reached over in common left hand style. I then taught myself to write correctly and my writing improved greatly.

Bet you shoot that flintlock right handed too; wouldn't want ya' to be blind!

Platapus · 09-14-13, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Us left handers have more than our share of trouble handwriting especially cursive.

That's because people like you are so sinister.

Aktungbby · 09-14-13, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

That's because people like you are so sinister.

'Unstable and contrary' will suffice Platapus, remember ...charm uber alles!

Takeda Shingen · 09-14-13, 01:22 PM

I am left handed, but was ambidextrous as a child. I would write with my left hand until I reached the center, and then switch to my right. When forced to choose a hand, I went with left because that was the hand I always started with. Looking back, I wish that I wasn't forced to choose. It would be very cool to have equal dexterity.

vienna · 09-14-13, 02:25 PM

I learned cursive writing in school through the Palmer Method. Over the years, my handwriting has deteriorated from legible to a scrawl that would make a doctor look at my writing and say "What does this say?" The keyboard has eroded whatever dexterity I had for longhand writing. I have given serious thought to getting hold of a Palmer method book and trying to re-learn my handwriting skills...

There is an intersting possibility a sort of resurgence of the art and occupation of "scribe" may come out of the dependence on the keyboard. Much as the then new field of typist came out of the invention of the typewriter, people, having lost or diminished their own handwriting abilities, may seek out someone else with the "gift" of clear cursive handwriting to produce those documents that seem to be all the better for the "human touch". It could be a sort of full circle: the scribe displaced by the typist displaced by the scribe...

The far worse loss and potential problem comes from the dependence on automatic spell checking and grammar correction. The degree to which the simple abiltity to spell and use correct grammar (Hi, Steve) has fallen among the most educated of professional people of the younger years is startling. In past years, I have found younger co-workers, some educated by some very prestigious colleges and universities, in wonder and awe at my seemingly "magic" ability to use language and the likewise abilities of others my age. I guess when one is soley strivng to be the next MBA to become a multi-millionaire, the simple chores of a well-rounded education are a drudgery...

I once read a novel where it became necessary to "turn off" all the GPS satellite systems worldwide in order to thwart a terrorist attack. The unexpected side-effect was to cause the running aground of several commercial ships due to the ships officers not being able to navigate in the old manner since they had become totally dependent on GPS navigation systems. There may be likewise shoals and reefs ahead for those who become dependent of machines to do everyday tasks...

<O>

Armistead · 09-14-13, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Bet you shoot that flintlock right handed too; wouldn't want ya' to be blind!

I can do anything with my right hand as I can my left, cept write....
Some things I have to use both hands.

Takeda Shingen · 09-14-13, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

Some things I have to use both hands.

Like shoveling crap.

09-14-13, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

It would be very cool to have equal dexterity.

My Grand Mother could write with both hands equally well.
It always amazed me. And I wish I could do that.
I can read forwards, backwards, upside down, upside down backwards and so on.

Sailor Steve · 09-14-13, 05:37 PM

@ Vienna: My handwriting is mediocre but legible and always have been. I read things written by the Founders and their contemporaries and I'm amazed at the skills they owned. On the other hand they seem to have written slowly and carefully when it was for public consumption but weren't quite so careful otherwise.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/rough.htm

When I was thirteen my mother lived in a trailer park. She commented to me once that the manager of the park had "the most beautiful handwriting I've ever seen." It's a practiced skill, just like anything else.

Takeda Shingen · 09-14-13, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by privateer

My Grand Mother could write with both hands equally well.
It always amazed me. And I wish I could do that.
I can read forwards, backwards, upside down, upside down backwards and so on.

I read forward, backward, upside down, inside out, etc, but it certainly isn't intentional.

09-12-13, 04:25 AM	#17
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,080 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	[QUOTE=Mr Quatro;2113036] hat about personality ... there really is something about hand writing analyzes from a person hand and mind on the paper. I sincerely believe this is a big mistake.[QUOTE] Damn straight! I never hire anyone whose writing tilts to the left. They're unstable and contrary! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

09-14-13, 02:25 PM	#25
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,722 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I learned cursive writing in school through the Palmer Method. Over the years, my handwriting has deteriorated from legible to a scrawl that would make a doctor look at my writing and say "What does this say?" The keyboard has eroded whatever dexterity I had for longhand writing. I have given serious thought to getting hold of a Palmer method book and trying to re-learn my handwriting skills... There is an intersting possibility a sort of resurgence of the art and occupation of "scribe" may come out of the dependence on the keyboard. Much as the then new field of typist came out of the invention of the typewriter, people, having lost or diminished their own handwriting abilities, may seek out someone else with the "gift" of clear cursive handwriting to produce those documents that seem to be all the better for the "human touch". It could be a sort of full circle: the scribe displaced by the typist displaced by the scribe... The far worse loss and potential problem comes from the dependence on automatic spell checking and grammar correction. The degree to which the simple abiltity to spell and use correct grammar (Hi, Steve) has fallen among the most educated of professional people of the younger years is startling. In past years, I have found younger co-workers, some educated by some very prestigious colleges and universities, in wonder and awe at my seemingly "magic" ability to use language and the likewise abilities of others my age. I guess when one is soley strivng to be the next MBA to become a multi-millionaire, the simple chores of a well-rounded education are a drudgery... I once read a novel where it became necessary to "turn off" all the GPS satellite systems worldwide in order to thwart a terrorist attack. The unexpected side-effect was to cause the running aground of several commercial ships due to the ships officers not being able to navigate in the old manner since they had become totally dependent on GPS navigation systems. There may be likewise shoals and reefs ahead for those who become dependent of machines to do everyday tasks... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

09-14-13, 05:37 PM	#29
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	@ Vienna: My handwriting is mediocre but legible and always have been. I read things written by the Founders and their contemporaries and I'm amazed at the skills they owned. On the other hand they seem to have written slowly and carefully when it was for public consumption but weren't quite so careful otherwise. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/rough.htm When I was thirteen my mother lived in a trailer park. She commented to me once that the manager of the park had "the most beautiful handwriting I've ever seen." It's a practiced skill, just like anything else. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

09-11-13, 05:38 PM	#16
Mr Quatro Navy Seal Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 6,772 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I read this on the web several months ago too ... I think it was Ohio had already decided to stop teaching cursive writing. I guess keyboards and text messaging will be the norm ... What about personality ... there really is something about hand writing analyzes from a person hand and mind on the paper. I sincerely believe this is a big mistake. My older friends have beautiful hand writing and my children can't even spell.

09-14-13, 01:22 PM	#24
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	I am left handed, but was ambidextrous as a child. I would write with my left hand until I reached the center, and then switch to my right. When forced to choose a hand, I went with left because that was the hand I always started with. Looking back, I wish that I wasn't forced to choose. It would be very cool to have equal dexterity.