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cursive writing


TRX
09-18-2013

Cursive writing lost relevance with the decline of the fountain pen.

In the beginning, when proper writing was done by poking triangular characters into clay tablets with a triangular-pointed stick. I imagine the old scribes bemoaned the lack of proper poking skills when people moved to that new "ink" stuff and quills. And then, since the ink drooled off the quills more or less continuously, they couldn't make proper letters any more, and just strung everything together in an unholy mess.

Then came the pencil and ball-point pen, and the keyboard, cursive is stone dead, and we've gone back to the old way, with block characters.


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TRX
06-29-2013

I can't read cursive either.

We were required to write it until the third or fourth grade, but we never had to read it.

Cursive was stone dead even then, about as relevant to a pencil or ballpoint as chiseling marks into stone tablets.