Another "handwriting Is Dead" Article

[katerchen]

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/16/cognitive-benefits-handwriting-decline-typing

 

( Don't look at me, I'm doing my part ... both of my girls are very prolific handwriters and I did manage to get the younger interested in fountain pens )

 

-k

[erpe]

Yep, handwriting is certainly a thing of the past. That is why Apple reserved 200 M$ on research for proper handwriting recognition and developing the required pen and screen technology

20 years ago, I thought we would all have to learn Palm's Grafity but it seems, technological evolution can indeed progress backwards.

[Ste_S]

I don't think that's "Another handwriting is dead article" at all, it makes a good case for why everyone should continue to write and concludes with "Perhaps, in their way, they compensate for our soulless keyboards"

[usk15]

We are going back to the roots:

 

 

 

Teenagers already using short text messages and a lot of icons on their devices...

[erpe]

We are going back to the roots:

 

[savingbirds]

Forget the article, what pen is it on the header?

 

It looks fairly modern, but the nib seems to have rounded wings (kinda like a Pilot FA nib or a Noodler's nibs after the "ease my flex" mod) for flexibility.

[KBeezie]

Well... well I guess I'll just go back to doing chicken scratch...

[erpe]

Forget the article, what pen is it on the header?

 

It's a stock photo from alamy. Browse your heart out for clues http://www.alamy.com/search.html?CreativeOn=1&adv=1&ag=0&all=1&creative=&et=0x000000000000000000000&vp=0&loc=0&qt=fountain%20pen&qn=&lic=6&lic=1&archive=1&dtfr=&dtto=&hc=&selectdate=&size=0xFF&aqt=&epqt=&oqt=&nqt=&gtype=0

[KBeezie]

It's a stock photo from alamy. Browse your heart out for clues http://www.alamy.com/search.html?CreativeOn=1&adv=1&ag=0&all=1&creative=&et=0x000000000000000000000&vp=0&loc=0&qt=fountain%20pen&qn=&lic=6&lic=1&archive=1&dtfr=&dtto=&hc=&selectdate=&size=0xFF&aqt=&epqt=&oqt=&nqt=&gtype=0

And probably a few other micro-stock sites if they didn't opt for exclusivity. Half the nibs can be photographed and sold as stock so as long as the brand/TM is photoshopped out.

[DonLeone]

So I bought a craptop laptop to carry around and take notes on.

 

As it turns out, our memory is only about 3 seconds long. It takes more than that to fire up a laptop. I had a smartass phone with all kinds of cool options but that thing takes a fiddle or two to get to a notetaking app and then you need to use a virtual keyboard that doesn't work right. Or you need to use a pokey stick draw lines which don't get recognised. I even bought one of them digital pens so I'd have digitised notes.

 

100 for the pen, 400 for the phone, 1200 for the laptop. That's 1700 bucks I could have spent on pens and paper and been more effective.

 

"Oh but you need to get an ipad"

 

Gah don't make me Ipads you on the head!

 

To be honest, I may get a first or second generation cheapo ipad to use as a reader for books or something.

[flipper_gv]

It can't go away, but it can become less and less used.

Edited December 17, 2014 by flipper_gv

[Justjosh]

Well... well I guess I'll just go back to doing chicken scratch.

 

I resemble that remark!!!

Today was the first day I started writing, wow, it's dreadful.

 

 

I've read numerous articles on "handwriting is dead" today, mostly due to searching for writing classes

[dcwaites]

Why is it that we regularly see "Handwriting is dead" articles, but never "Scone-making is dead" articles? And there are far more people out there using handwriting (present company included) than there are scone-makers.

 

For each art/craft out there (scone-making, handwriting, quilt-making, sword/knife making, book-binding, wooden-toy making, etc, etc, etc) there are many practioners learning and passing on the skills. For each of those skills there are machine-made alternatives, but which are never as good as the craft-made version. Just try any store-bought scone (if you can even find one...) against one made by my Aunt 'Lisbet. The one will give you stomach cramps, whilst the other is bliss on earth.

 

Going back to handwriting. You simply write better prose by hand. More of your mind/body/soul is involved. Read the last paragraph of "On the Orgin of Species", or "The Old Man and the Sea", or "The Ocean" trilogy by Rachel Carson. All these were written by hand. There is no modern prose written solely on a computer that matches any of those.

[Parse Error]

The world consumes more than 30 billion ballpoints every year (not to mention the number of cheap disposable mechanical pencils and wooden pencils)...

 

Aside from ear picking what else are they used for?

[Lamyrada]

Well, that means we have the ability to create the experts of the future that will be called to to read and translate cursive written documents , found in attics, old chests and drawers. Those to pass on the art of cursive writing will produce in three- four generations future the well paid experts that will know how to read the chicken scratch our elders and us know how to write. Let's think positively. It will be a new job. Cursive writing expert.

[KBeezie]

Why is it that we regularly see "Handwriting is dead" articles, but never "Scone-making is dead" articles? And there are far more people out there using handwriting (present company included) than there are scone-makers.

Because there's a lot more people who would jump at the chance to debate such an article, even those who aren't really avid writers. Where as if you say scone-making is dead, it's boring, next to no one would bother to debate it and the average lay person can't really relate to it. When nearly everyone has least written something once in their life, they're suddenly entitled to have an opinion about it, where it's harder to have an opinion about scones if you've never made one, let alone tasted one.

 

Well, that means we have the ability to create the experts of the future that will be called to to read and translate cursive written documents , found in attics, old chests and drawers. Those to pass on the art of cursive writing will produce in three- four generations future the well paid experts that will know how to read the chicken scratch our elders and us know how to write. Let's think positively. It will be a new job. Cursive writing expert.

Wouldn't even have to write it, if you can read it you're hired lol.

Edited December 18, 2014 by KBeezie

[blINK]

We need someone to write scone recipes in cursive and then sell them on Etsy.

 

Vintage! Rare!

Edited December 18, 2014 by blINK

[sirgilbert357]

We need someone to write scone recipes in cursive and then sell them on Etsy.

 

Vintage! Rare!

Up charge if it's written in FP ink. Oh, you want shading with that? That's extra. Sheen? Extra. Tell you what, I'll use an italic nib for half price if you buy the other options too, mmmKay??

 

LOL. Future business model indeed.

[BookCat]

I just cracked up at the scone making analogy.

And I see it's getting even worse! :lticaptd:

[Algester]

but scones... seriously?! no tarts, cakes or pies?