national handwriting day

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/12/2007 11:02 AM, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>Although I understand your pain, I (someone who once learned cursive) find
>cursive to be unnecessary. Printing works just as well, it just isn't as
>"fancy" or "pretty." But that's just my controversial take on the matter.

My own cursive has become so sloppy due to my predominant employment
of keyboards that I can't read the handwriting of my own notes more
than a day or two later.  Although that's due in part to overly-rapid
writing when I'm taking notes from something I'm reading.  So I've
taken to printing -- not only can I understand it more readily two
days later, but it slows me down when writing.  (I do know the
difference between capitals and lower case, however, and use both!)

Joel

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org