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I was always intruiged by the fact that he was such a formidable person, but he wrote like a sissy.
Ahhh, yes. Well, being formidable he didn't think too much about his handwriting being sissyish!
My Dad was 6' 4" and also "formidable" and had beautiful cursive handwriting.
Our local schools did have a course in handwriting in the 1980s - I remember voting for it at the School Disctrict Meeting (similar to Town Meeting but to do with school finances) Whether it is still extant I have no idea.
And I have legible handwriting - a result of classes that were standard in all schools in the 1940s and 1950s.
(Hi Bill!)
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My first grade teacher, Mrs. Gilson, tried to teach us the Palmer Method. It didn't take with me, but I can write legibly if I have to.
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Consuelo, why write legibly and screw up your creativity? You don't have to write legibly, honestly. Half the fun is in watching an entire new system of hieroglyphs develop on the page right before your eyes. The world has quite enough legible writing in it. Shoot, and with computers to take care of legibility for anything that needs to be accurately communicated, handwriting is one of the last bastions of the foreign, exotic and truly strange.
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If you want to study calligraphy, you could do worse than startaing with SpeedBall pens. It used to be the Hunt Pen company. I have no idea if the founder was a member of my tribe or not. My older brother used to be able to make very attractive Christmas cards with those pens. I even made some passable ones. The software I used ten years ago became obsolete, and the replacements were just too damned hard to master. But take a look at what SpeedBall offers: http://www.speedballart.com/letteringcharts.pdf
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handwriting is one of the last bastions of the foreign, exotic and truly strange
Don't remember handwriting anything that you've seen, WW!
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In reply to:
Don't remember handwriting anything that you've seen, WW!
Don't...remember...handwriting...anything...that....you've...seen? Hey, Cap! I speak English, but I cannot parse this sentence. I'm on my first cup of coffee, so go easy on me...
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It's not difficult, WW: Once you insert the "I" at the start of the sentence (left out through "I"dleness, no doubt) it becomes obvious that pfranz is bemoaning the fact that nearly two years of testing as many of the strngest beers that England can produce has caused his memory cells to diminish in power.   On a more personal note, I gave up hand writing when I was about four years old, when they gave me, first, a pencil and, later, a pen.
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Let us not forget that the invention of the typewriter was an impostant step in women's liberation. Remember Galsworthy's "The Twelve Pound Look"?
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In reply to:
Ww>handwriting is one of the last bastions of the foreign, exotic and truly strange
CK>Don't remember handwriting anything that you've seen, WW!
let's see if obviousizing helps here: [I d]on't remember writing anything that you've seen, said the foreign, exotic and truly strange Kiwi.
-ron o.
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Let's reobviousise this into some semblance of the truth, then:
"I don't remember HANDwriting anything that you've seen", yadda, yadda. The fact that she read my post shows that she has seen something that I've written.
- jimmy [even more] obviouser
And I don't think that I'm weirder than a certain sesquipedalious, logophiliac Minnesotan of my acquaintance!
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And I don't think that I'm weirder than a certain sesquipedalious, logophiliac Minnesotan of my acquaintance!
Well - and that still gives you plenty of scope, I guess! - and whose giving prizes, anyway??
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I was just making sure that there wasn't some steganographic (ref. tsuwm's treasure chest) information in Cap's computer writing about his handwriting. Letter for letter, I'll put the worst of mine up against anybody's.
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In reply to:
Let us not forget that the invention of the typewriter was an impostant step in women's liberation.
Millions of women rose up and said, "We will not be dictated to," -- and became shorthand typists.
Not, alas, my own. But I forget who originally said it, and the exact wording.
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