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Having few reasons to use a pencil or pen since leaving high school, a decade and change later I still have a callus on my right middle finger, but using a writ
by rgovostes 7y ago
Having few reasons to use a pencil or pen since leaving high school, a decade and change later I still have a callus on my right middle finger, but using a writing implement is uncomfortable.
With computer keyboards and touchscreen smartphones used for the majority of written communication, I wonder if penmanship is worse now than at any time in human history. If cursive is still taught, it's probably not for much longer.
During the SATs, we had to write in cursive some statement that we did not receive outside help. Everyone joked afterwards about how tedious it was and how we overflowed the space in which to write because we weren't practiced at making tight loops.
- lucb1e 7y ago> I wonder if penmanship is worse now than at any time in human history As another datapoint, I write a few times per year. I'm not sure if my handwriting got worse (it has always been on the lower end of legible), but I do forget how to write letters. I have to consciously think how an M or a K goes, or how a U fits onto a W. It has also always been slow, nearly slow enough to cause real trouble in exams. On the other hand (pun not intended), typing is something I do faster than anyone else I know in real life, so it's not that me or my hands are slow in general.
- pjc50 7y ago> penmanship is worse now than at any time in human history Mass literacy is a fairly recent norm, especially outside the West. Only really took off with the norm of mass schooling. http://www.unesco.org/education/GMR2006/full/chapt8_eng.pdf http://www.unesco.org/education/GMR2006/full/chapt8_eng.pdf