{"id":3479,"date":"2009-03-10T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/semi-dorky-poll-low-tech-writi\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:42:28","slug":"semi-dorky-poll-low-tech-writi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/semi-dorky-poll-low-tech-writi\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Dorky Poll: Low-Tech Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Neil DeGrasse Tyson was on the Daily Show telling stories about Pluto, and mentioned getting a letter from a little kid who added the postscript “Please write back, but not in cursive, because I can’t read cursive yet.” We were talking about this in the car yesterday, because Kate’s been reading one of these books, and I realized that I don’t think I could<\/em> write a letter in cursive, even if I wanted to.<\/p>\n

I did learn how to write in cursive, back in the day, but my handwriting was always borderline illegible, and I switched back to printing pretty much as soon as the teachers stopped grading on handwriting (sometime in junior high). It’s probably been fifteen years since I wrote anything longer than my signature in cursive (I remember some application in grad school that required me to write out a lengthy declaration, and I struggled with it). I’m no longer even sure how to make some of the letters (“Q” and “Z” particularly, but I was never good with those).<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how typical my experience is, though. So let me throw this out to my readers:<\/p>\n

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If you had to write a couple of sentences on paper, how would you do it? Printing, cursive, or typing it into a word processor and printing it out?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also, if you could indicate when you were in school, that might be interesting. Do they even bother to teach cursive these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Neil DeGrasse Tyson was on the Daily Show telling stories about Pluto, and mentioned getting a letter from a little kid who added the postscript “Please write back, but not in cursive, because I can’t read cursive yet.” We were talking about this in the car yesterday, because Kate’s been reading… Continue reading Semi-Dorky Poll: Low-Tech Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}