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06-02-2005, 10:41 AM
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Re: Computers And The Lost Art Of Handwriting
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haha during midterms in february they didn't want to let me use a computer for typing so I got to use a word processor. Loudest thing ever [/ QUOTE ] Do you mean typewriter??? If so I feel really old as well as hung over right now [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] 
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#12
06-02-2005, 10:45 AM
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I was just talking to my mom about this. She said they actually had penmanship class when she went to school. [/ QUOTE ] Wtf? You never had to take penmanship? Have the stopped teaching kids to write at all? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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#13
06-02-2005, 10:47 AM
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[ QUOTE ] haha during midterms in february they didn't want to let me use a computer for typing so I got to use a word processor. Loudest thing ever [/ QUOTE ] Do you mean typewriter??? If so I feel really old as well as hung over right now [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] No...it's a word processor. There's a little screen on it where you can see what you type and then at the end there's a print button. They're annoying to use.
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06-02-2005, 12:50 PM
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The only class I ever got close to failing in my education were my first and second grade penmanship classes (well, and CS 311, database systems, but that is only because homework was worth 50% of the grade and I didn't hand in a single assignment).
Now, I haven't really handwritten anything in years, but July 26th and 27th is the bar exam, and it will be handwritten. I'm already having nightmares. I'm actually practicing writing.
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06-02-2005, 01:00 PM
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My mother tells me that she purchased my first computer when I was 9 for Christmas, that would have been 1983. This is what she got...
 I can type very well, but I must agree my handwriting sucks!! Living, Learning, and Laughing. Big Steve [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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06-02-2005, 04:59 PM
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I think cursive, but who knows. I see no reason for decent handwriting, as long as it is legible. It pisses me off that it was graded in elementary. [/ QUOTE ] It does me, too. Boys develop the motor skills for good handwriting later than girls do, and when I was a kid, good handwriting was equated with every good social characteristic imaginable, from friendliness to intelligence, and poor handwriting was spoken of as if it signalled conclusively the opposite. Not very fair to young kids, who have trouble writing well in the first place, and to young boys in particular, who simply develop differently than young girls do in that regard. In Europe, I understand, handwriting "analysis," which I think has no more validity than astrology or numerology, is supposedly very commonly considered in job applications and suggested as a legitimate basis for psychoanalysis. Very sad and very scary that having better or worse fine motor control is foolishly promulgated as indicative of absolutely every sort of fitness. My handwriting is terrible, so I learned to print instead of using cursive, as it's easier to read. Better, I learned to type, so I wouldn't have to either subject people to my chickenscratch or be judged by it.
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