Writing is sort of a lost art. I know my handwriting has deteriorated until it looks like a Doctor’s scrawling on a prescription. Sherry has always had a great hand writing.
It is easy to read.
I have noticed mine has gotten so bad that after it gets cold, I can hardly read it. If I am writing a sentence, the first words are legible, but then it heads down hill quick. I have even thought of practicing. In school I had plenty of practice, i.e. I shall not chew chewing gum in class. (100 times) or ‘I will not talk in class’ or ‘I will not speak without first raising my hand.’ or something like that. I wrote so many of those I should have been a calligrapher.
Our friend Mary Ann could have written the constitution.
Her handwriting is perfect.
Funny, I have never brought that up to her. I wonder if she takes special pains to write so well, or is it is something that is natural? She reads the blog sometime, maybe she will respond. Of course she just got married again, so she may have better things to do than read this blog stuff. (smile)( If she doesn’t have something better to do, me’n Buck her new hubby, needs to talk./ LOL)
Young folk text and use a short hand that must be interpreted for me. But they certainly can get their points across.
Is handwriting fading out of the picture all together? What about all the rules of English, letter writing and pass down notes?
It was just on my mind.
Nite Shipslog
PS:
I did not write this entry with a pen, and missed a lot lot rules I am sure. I tried to learn some from Bonnie as she proofed ‘Finally Love’, but I think I am pretty much a lost cause.
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1988 Chevy Caprice (We owned a Caprice, and for the life of me I cannot remember the year??)
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14 comments:
hee hee...
Ol' «Louis» got a LOT of handwriting practice like you did! LOTS of practice!
I even got some handwriting experiences. lol
Now in the public school system they do not teach cursive any more. Nor many English rules or parts of speech or diagramming.
Now think about this - you go to a private school - all that changes. They are taught cursive, all the English rules you could think of, all parts of speech, and diagramming until well .... this is the biggest problem we experienced in transferring the grandson from public to private and it has been extremely hard learning in one year what the others have learned over a few years.
You have hit a point with me!
Sandie
You hit a point with me. I write long-hand letters once or twice a week to my best friend and she responds. Writing has become a lost art.
My handwriting has gone south too. Used to keep up with a lot of people writing letters. Now all I get in the mailbox is bills.
My hands are not as flexible as they once were (they're muscle bound, I say), so I typically use manuscript rather than cursive. It is much more legible that way.
In the homeschool community, of which I'm a part, I hear a lot of discussion on what method of handwriting to teach. There is one method (Getty-Dubay) which is an italic style that is a hybrid of cursive and manuscript.
One disadvantage of not knowing cursive (at least well enough to read it) is that old handwritten documents can't be deciphered. For example, my son and I were perusing the State Archives for a early 20th century court case. Of course the court minutes are all cursive.
I'm impressed with people who have beautiful handwriting. I feel the way about pretty handwriting as Sheriff Andy said about Dud Walsh's charm, "Some's got it, and some ain't."
What amazes me is the neatness of the script of even a rugged frontiersman like Daniel Boone:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=98105
bonnie k.
I can remember practicing writing, and I know my children did, now I'm going to have to check with some of my grands to see if they ever have to practice. I know things are changing. I don't have much reason to write things out by hand anymore. Most of my correspondence is done by email.
As a former fourth-grade public school teacher, I remember cursive handwriting being taught. It was first introduced in the third grade, and I reinforced and "fine-tuned" my students' abilities in cursive handwriting in the fourth grade.
I loved it. The students did too! Remember as a child WANTING to write in "real writing" so much that one began in first or second grade with those "curvy" letters ?? :)). I can say from a teachet's perspective that it was sometimes hard to undo what the child had 'practiced' before his/her formal learning of cursive....but such fun and satisfaction gained when it was accomisplished.
You have brought back wonderful memories, here, Jack.
Thank you for that!!
I fuss about auto-correct on my iPhone...
But I should check before hitting "publish" ...
Forgive my typos/spelling above.
I kan spel! :)))
Jackie
You bring up that nasty subject of hand writing. I am a lefty and have never had readable hand writing. I don't think that is why, but it is better than nothing. My hand writing was better when younger but it is spiraled downward about as far as it can. I still write checks for the bills. I keep trying to show Joe about the checkbook. He is so determined a bank statement is all you need to balance a check book. I can not get it through his head that not all checks that have removed money from our account may not have been listed yet. We are at the age that I may not be around even though I plan on being here, he needs to listen to his wife for once.
You bring up that nasty subject of hand writing. I am a lefty and have never had readable hand writing. I don't think that is why, but it is better than nothing. My hand writing was better when younger but it is spiraled downward about as far as it can. I still write checks for the bills. I keep trying to show Joe about the checkbook. He is so determined a bank statement is all you need to balance a check book. I can not get it through his head that not all checks that have removed money from our account may not have been listed yet. We are at the age that I may not be around even though I plan on being here, he needs to listen to his wife for once.
I always print when I need to
send something after my writing
gets cold I can't read it. For
some reason I have started writing
small which makes it harder.
I guess everybody has written in school "I will not talk in class". My teacher sent a note home if I
would pay attention in class and not to everybody around I could
do better.
Do you remember Dad typing out
his sermons on the small manual
black typewriter what would he
think about the computer?
Oh, I remember one other thing (that has to be told, lol!). Before I learned to read or write, I would make scribbles on the grocery list that I thought looked like writing in vain hopes that I had magically spelled the words "ice cream." LOL. It's funny how a little kid's mind works.
bonnie k.
BTW, the "anonymous" immediately above is NOT ME. Looks like spam. If I hover over the link, I see an address that just doesn't fit with all the other good people commenting here.
Only yesterday, I "pinned" a photo of forgotten simple pleasure ... the handwritten letter. What a shame that coming generations may never experience those.
ANYway, I've never liked my own handwriting, v. mother's lovely script. This chip of my shoulder? Probably stems from 6th grade when I had to wear a plaster cast for near 6 months on my writing (left) arm ... then the blasted teacher actually gave me a "D" in penmanship. (My dad was soooo mad!)
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