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Post by DJW1066 on Jun 27, 2016 11:57:56 GMT
This article talks about the benefits of children learning to write. My penpals surely wish I would learn to write better; sadly, there's little hope of that, but there's still hope for the younger generations. Handwriting matters Jun 25-16.pdf (885.83 KB)
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Post by Mia on Jun 27, 2016 14:52:54 GMT
I can actually decipher your handwriting and is actually a little easier to read than some fancy calligraphy scripts. But yes, with social history of more interest now, a lot of that is in letters - letters from the front - WWI and WWII... love letters and letters home from soldiers... it would be such a shame if these would not be able to be read by their great grandchildren and their descendants.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2016 15:21:55 GMT
Great article. You might like to read "Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read" by Stanislas Dehaene for more insight into the subject.
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Post by distractedmom on Jun 28, 2016 1:16:40 GMT
I love it when science backs up my beliefs!
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Post by stormymorning on Jul 4, 2016 12:05:08 GMT
... and I can't stand it that there are schools already that let kids work with tablets or laptop almost exclusively!
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Post by mailartist on Oct 22, 2016 12:42:57 GMT
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Post by sails on Oct 22, 2016 15:14:38 GMT
Your brain works better when you write by hand.
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Post by DJW1066 on Oct 22, 2016 17:59:13 GMT
Your brain works better when you write by hand. My brain may or may not work better when I write by hand, but my recipients' brains sure get a workout trying to read my letters.
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Post by distractedmom on Oct 26, 2016 2:41:00 GMT
I just shared the link on Facebook. Great article.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 16:25:21 GMT
I read in old parish registers all the time for my genealogical research (No, the handwriting from 400 years back is not harder to read than that from 100 or 200 years back). My son recently saw me reading on the computer screen and exclaimed: "Can you read THAT?" I finally taught myself to write Kurrent (old German cursive) fluently.
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Post by mailartist on Oct 27, 2016 23:13:13 GMT
I read in old parish registers all the time for my genealogical research (No, the handwriting from 400 years back is not harder to read than that from 100 or 200 years back). My son recently saw me reading on the computer screen and exclaimed: "Can you read THAT?" I finally taught myself to write Kurrent (old German cursive) fluently. My husband's ancestors were from German-speaking Switzerland. He's got photocopies of old letters and family histories. Lovely script, it is, but he had no idea what anything said. Paid a translator to "English-ify" it, so we have the info, but it's not the same reading a translation. Wish we could read in the original, but alas, "we sprechen not Deutsch."
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Post by Mia on Oct 27, 2016 23:52:31 GMT
I read in old parish registers all the time for my genealogical research (No, the handwriting from 400 years back is not harder to read than that from 100 or 200 years back). My son recently saw me reading on the computer screen and exclaimed: "Can you read THAT?" I finally taught myself to write Kurrent (old German cursive) fluently. Some of those letters look nice. Some look a little confused.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 13:57:19 GMT
I read in old parish registers all the time for my genealogical research (No, the handwriting from 400 years back is not harder to read than that from 100 or 200 years back). My son recently saw me reading on the computer screen and exclaimed: "Can you read THAT?" I finally taught myself to write Kurrent (old German cursive) fluently. Some of those letters look nice. Some look a little confused. It can also be very confusing trying to read and figure out the words. Sometimes it just goes up and down and you don't know if it's small m's or n's or e's or u's or r's, or maybe an i oder c in between. However, it seems a bit easier to me since I learned how to properly write it.
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Post by distractedmom on Oct 31, 2016 15:03:30 GMT
Some of those letters look nice. Some look a little confused. It can also be very confusing trying to read and figure out the words. Sometimes it just goes up and down and you don't know if it's small m's or n's or e's or u's or r's, or maybe an i oder c in between. However, it seems a bit easier to me since I learned how to properly write it. Wow. That would take some work.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 15:33:27 GMT
It can also be very confusing trying to read and figure out the words. Sometimes it just goes up and down and you don't know if it's small m's or n's or e's or u's or r's, or maybe an i oder c in between. However, it seems a bit easier to me since I learned how to properly write it. Wow. That would take some work. I'll send you a sample next time I write. It seems even more difficult to write English language.
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