Chicken scratches
One of these days the handwritten word is going to fall under the category of fallen arts. As computers and the internet become more and more the primary forms of communications, especially with the increasing popularity of mobile devices and WiFi, the need for writing things by hand will fall to the wayside. Once schools begin to incorporate tablet PCs and laptops as part of the mainstream, writing things by hand will become nearly useless (since school was one of the last places people actually write things out by hand). Handwriting will be shunned to the corners of lab notebooks, longhand math, and other places where paper trails are deemed a necessity or where chicken scratches are desired to help the brain chug along.
I’m ok with all this because my handwriting sucks. It’s slower and far less legible than my typing. During the rare occasions when I have to write by hand I do it hastily and begrudgingly. I *greatly dislike* having to slow down my thinking to accommodate the sloth-like formation of letters by hand.
That’s all I got. Random thought for the night.
I don’t mind writing, however I’ve noticed that the longer you are in school and have to take notes, etc, the worse your hand-writing gets.
I’ve very quick though, especially since I use short-hand and abbreviate just about everything
I’m the same way. anything I write for my own purposes (especially directions) ends up being equivalent to pacenotes. just enough so that I can understand what’s going on and no more.
amen
I agree. Remember my last job where we had to hand-write all those forms? Yeah that sucked. Then they had the nerve to complain about our handwriting when we should have just been inputting the data directly by TYPING anyway lol. Yeah. Typing is much better. My hands won’t move fast enough for my brain even typing, but writing……..no way.
::sits down to write you a letter::