tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380631593644516380.post318786821788330431..comments2024-03-17T09:59:25.470-07:00Comments on Making Handmade Books: Handwriting and Creative WritingAlisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04649805582936306865noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380631593644516380.post-63063878474745032942011-07-28T13:34:13.418-07:002011-07-28T13:34:13.418-07:00Cursive as a second language is a strange concept ...Cursive as a second language is a strange concept indeed. Thanks to both of you for making interesting points. If no one can sign their name in cursive and printing is easier to forge, we may end up making thumbprints instead. Somehow it feels like we are going backwards…unless we offer these classes ourselves or are willing to go into the schools.Alisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04649805582936306865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380631593644516380.post-19721558265034017642011-07-27T18:00:27.681-07:002011-07-27T18:00:27.681-07:00Hi Alisa,
After reading your 7/24 blog entry, I...Hi Alisa,<br />After reading your 7/24 blog entry, I'm wondering if you read this NY Times article about cursive in April? It was recently reprinted in our local Santa Rosa paper. The realization that young people find cursive "cryptic" and have to struggle to translate it stunned me! So maybe all of us compulsive journal writers who've been wondering whether or not to burn our personal journals before we die don't need to worry about it . . . they'll be like hieroglyphics. Lin<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/us/28cursive.htmlLin Maxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380631593644516380.post-71687491205924725212011-07-27T13:29:09.083-07:002011-07-27T13:29:09.083-07:00There is a movement to do away with teaching cursi...There is a movement to do away with teaching cursive writing in schools. As a self-taught calligrapher and admirer of beautiful handwriting I find this idea troubling. How would people sign legal documents? By printing their name or (perish the thought) would it all be done electronically?Maryhttp://mcmisura.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com