quarta-feira, 14 de dezembro de 2011

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  1. Very well said. I too have a problem with schools not teaching proper penmanship, printing and writing or as modern teachers like to say block letters and cursive. I wish my grade school days had more writing practice to correctly form letters and write better in cursive. It is an art that I learned to appreciate after I was out of school several years and I was able to read some old records of meetings for the volunteer fire department where I belonged. Such neat cursive those fellows had. There was a pride in what they wrote and how they wrote. They also used fountain pens which I chose to start using (after not using one since childhood) for several reasons, one of which is to improve my penmanship and do what little I can to preserve cursive. I also chose at the same time to start typing instead of using a computer for all my writing. Again, it is not as boring as computer generated perfect text. Typewritten has class, character and as with the hand-written note the writers personality.

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  2. You are right about all of this, of course. Fortunately the computer can help us few, perceptive typewriter fans find each other around the world.

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  3. Very well said. You demonstrated one reason to use a typewriter in your text. Knowing how to break up a long word at the end of a line rather than have the computer do so connects you to the basics of the language, in the same way that a slide rule connects you to the mathematical processes. However, I dispute the notion that cursive is less efficient. One Morse Code training course I took *insists* that the student use cursive to keep the pen on the surface and to think in words, not letters. Of course I then set about looking for a typewriter for copying code...

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