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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,778
    edited December 1969

    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2015

    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    my cousin is in 3rd grade. they don't teach cursive writing. not in new york public schools. private schools might

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    I try not to curse when writing. :-P

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    edited December 1969

    I still use it. It's faster than printing for me.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,231
    edited June 2015

    Misty Whisky said:
    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    my cousin is in 3rd grade. they don't teach cursive writing. not in new york public schools. private schools might

    I was never a master at cursive writing. In 7th and 8th grades I had a very small point pen that I printed my reports with. I could print quickly and neatly. But by College I typed everything that mattered.

    I think it's a shame that cursive isn't taught much anymore. However, I can understand why. It's not really necessary and has lost it's advantage, and kids have so little time now days to learn the really important stuff like which clothes to wear to be cool, how to avoid bullies, and how to cram for tests that mean nothing in the long run. Just like we did, only more so.

    The only thing I'm worried about losing in not having cursive is our signatures. I take great pride in my signature and have worked on it for nearly 6 decades. Now, I'm asked to sign some plastic screen with a bent dull stick, or my finger tip, and the computer traces out some random lines that look nothing at all like my elegant signature, and I sigh resignedly and what we have lost.

    When the day comes, I think I will refuse to sign a contract with my DNA in the form of a blood drop for fear of giving up my soul.

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,778
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    my cousin is in 3rd grade. they don't teach cursive writing. not in new york public schools. private schools might

    I know they were talking about getting rid of it which is stupid. How are they gonna sign stuff. Signatures are different for each person which separates you from others. If your printing your name anybody can take your place.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    my cousin is in 3rd grade. they don't teach cursive writing. not in new york public schools. private schools might

    I know they were talking about getting rid of it which is stupid. How are they gonna sign stuff. Signatures are different for each person which separates you from others. If your printing your name anybody can take your place.

    Seems pretty stupid to me, we will end up with a generation of kids that can't write before long. Back when I was a kid we were taught "little letters" and "Big letters" from the start of our schooling. Made it so much easier to go on to "Joined up writing" at around 7 years old

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    Cursive writing will be missed when someone detonates an EM bomb! They'll be back in the stone age time! Communicating with grunts (practically all they do now anyway), and using stick figure drawings in the dirt with a branch!

    Blood drop signatures? Well, that will make it easy for those who want to steal your money. Just walk by you on the street, or in the subway, and graze you with something sharp enough to draw blood. Bingo, got your identity! :ahhh:

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    constitution is written in cursive writing

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    I try not to curse when writing. :-P

    Dana

    I curse all the time when I'm writing, maybe that's an issue... :red: :red:

    My cursive is nearly unreadable, due to lack of use. Ugh. :long:

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:
    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    I try not to curse when writing. :-P

    Dana

    I curse all the time when I'm writing, maybe that's an issue... :red: :red:

    My cursive is nearly unreadable, due to lack of use. Ugh. :long:

    I write out so few checks these days that I am finding that I make mistakes when I write my signature. :red: Especially if I write it quickly.

    Of course, there could be another reason for that. But I don't want to know.

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,231
    edited June 2015

    Misty Whisky said:
    constitution is written in cursive writing

    A lot of early stuff was written in cursive.

    Back when I was in High School about 1964 my father was tax assessor for our township, and when the county courthouse had new tax maps (showing property lines) created they got all that information from the original recorded Deeds. In order to do that they had all the original Deeds microfilmed and then printed on normal sized 8.5x11 inch paper. The entire collection of about 150 years of Deeds was reduced to a set of 2000 boxes each with a ream of paper in them. When the map makers were done with the copied set of Deeds they were sold and my father bought all of them. For one year my bedroom had 24 feet of 6 foot high bookcases holding that library of copied Deeds. My father hired me and two of my friends to sit up there every day after school and on weekends to read and staple the several pages of each Deed together and sort them into the 25 townships and 3 cities of the county. He then sold the sorted Deeds for each township and city to the local governments of those smaller organizations. We were paid for our work, but not much. I don't know if he ever made any profit on the deal or not but I was glad to finally get those boxes out of my bedroom.

    My point being that Deeds before 1915 were in written in script which made some of them difficult to read. Not because it was sloppy, but because it was so beautiful and flowery. I think the earliest Deeds went back to 1805 which was when the county was founded.

    We took the time to examine some of them as we worked. The one I remember in particular was the Will of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Although why Longfellow's will ended up recorded in western NY State property Deeds I don't know. I just remember it was long and boring and mostly unintelligible to this 10th grader.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2015

    there was a line in excalibur, merlin says, For it is the doom of men that they forget.


    the end of the movie the excalibur went back to the lake, waiting for the next king. mebbe it's still waiting. sequel!


    wuh oh thunder storm. arthrit alert.
    sitting outside in thw wind waiting for buppy hugs. leafy bits stuck in my hair.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Morning. Rust and gold leaves drifting from bare branches twisting and twinkling in bright sun and a lazy breeze :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:
    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    I try not to curse when writing. :-P

    Dana

    I curse all the time when I'm writing, maybe that's an issue... :red: :red:

    My cursive is nearly unreadable, due to lack of use. Ugh. :long:

    I curse Apple's auto-correct all the time :lol:

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:
    Frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:
    AtticAnne said:
    My children never could transcribe my shorthand notes. They really hated it because I always used it to make my shopping lists for Christmas and birthdays. :lol: On the other hand, my father took shorthand when he was in high school and still remembered it into his 90's.

    Do grade schools in the U.S. still teach cursive writing? Just wondering.

    I'm not sure. Both my kids are in high school and they don't use it but I didn't use it 21yrs ago in high school. We only used it in grade and middle school

    I try not to curse when writing. :-P

    Dana

    I curse all the time when I'm writing, maybe that's an issue... :red: :red:

    My cursive is nearly unreadable, due to lack of use. Ugh. :long:

    I curse Apple's auto-correct all the time :lol:

    I don't have one, but I can sympathize with you...I've checked out the examples on damnyouautocorrect.com. Damn funny, actually...unless you're the one having the problems.

    Dana

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    They're already here--the Illiterate Generation. They can't write, read, or do arithmetic. But, damn, they sure are good at coloring in the bubbles on the standardized tests. The sad thing is that they don't care. I'm glad I'm no longer teaching in the public school system.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,125
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    german BEER!


    i've never seen a france beer. does it exist?


    ...yes it does.

    Je voudrais une beer, qu est-ce vous avez Kronenburger? Ah crap don't know if that's even the right spelling :lol:
    ...you have it right, along with Fischer, and Pelforth, which are the other major French brands. There are also quite a number of small regional and town breweries (Brasserie in French)

    http://beermapping.com/maps/maps.php?m=france#lat=undefined&lng=undefined&z=11

    The red "pins" denote breweries.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,125
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    chohole said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ..never could get the pronunciation for French down though love how it makes common things seem more "elegant".

    Train à Grande Vitesse = "high speed train".

    cerf-volant = "kite"

    le chant des oiseaux = "bird song"


    The Unpronounceable Complaint Thread.

    Yes it is much more elegant that german where you have words like Rathaus I will let you find out what that means. ...

    Hmmm... similar to Russian "ратуша" pronounced ratusha.

    (I'm curious: when I type the Russian alphabet "АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ" does everybody see it that way? My computers do, but my computers aren't exactly off-the-shelf configuration.)


    ...as I viddy it, looks real "horrorshow" to me.

    It's supposed to look like this:

    ...exactly.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,125
    edited December 1969

    AtticAnne said:
    I'm not sure Google was around in the late 1990's. I tried a couple of words just now and bingo, got the translation. Now to pull out my Russian books and get busy translating and making some bobbin lace.

    I usually take notes in Gregg shorthand.


    ..I actually used to know that...a long long time ago.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,125
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    goo'day :)

    ...after three days in the 90s, kind of feel like goo.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,125
    edited June 2015

    AtticAnne said:
    They're already here--the Illiterate Generation. They can't write, read, or do arithmetic. But, damn, they sure are good at coloring in the bubbles on the standardized tests. The sad thing is that they don't care. I'm glad I'm no longer teaching in the public school system.

    ...and good at texting, which is a language unto it's own.

    When I see texting become part of the school curriculum, then that the end of civilisation as we knew it will be at hand.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    edited December 1969

    Crick in the neck ≠ fun. :-/

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    AtticAnne said:
    They're already here--the Illiterate Generation. They can't write, read, or do arithmetic. But, damn, they sure are good at coloring in the bubbles on the standardized tests. The sad thing is that they don't care. I'm glad I'm no longer teaching in the public school system.

    Yeah.. technology is replacing brainpower with Google and Wikipedia. We've had a pile of new grads come here interviewing for engineering positions and about half couldn't answer basic mechanical engineering questions even I could answer, and they had degrees!!! :long:

    Not sure where it'll all lead, though. Could work out fine, could be a disaster. Ugh. :blank:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Well, my laptop is in Tulsa and should be at my place when I get home!!! :cheese: :cheese:

    It's likely to take a week or two to transfer my entire music software collection over.. ugh.. sine two of the companies that make the most important things I own are in Germany and notoriously slow to respond. I'll set up the second machine off to the side and get all my 2D and 3D art tools on it first, and keep the old machine going until everything is moved, then it's reformat and reinstall.

    Hot here too.. low 90s Sunday, then again Monday, supposed to hit 94 today and stay low/mid 90s all week. Oh, and humid. :blank:

    Worse, our test fence is out in an open field :shut: thankfully there are a few trees close to hide in but the unit I work on is out in the Sun.. I got smart and wore my special Austin-style light gray mesh-ventilated hat in so I should be safe! :coolsmile: Got it at the Pecan Street Festival a few years back, love the thing!

    Oh well, back to testing my own software.. fun times.. :blank:

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,231
    edited June 2015

    tjohn said:
    Crick in the neck ≠ fun. :-/

    Yeah, you're liable to drown! :bug:

    When I was a kid we could find frogs and crawdads in the crick. I don't think there are any crawdads or frogs around here anymore. :down: And the kids don't explore the cricks anymore anyway. They're inside on all the beautiful days avoiding the germs and bad people that their mothers obsess about.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,427
    edited December 1969

    I have to go downtown today after work to pick up my 31 day bus pass. Ughhhh!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    there's no bus pass system here - Suffolk county. they wantz the cold hard cash and coins.

    NYC has the metro card. and ez pass for the toll bridges and tunnels.

    mid town tunnel is scary, i feel like it's gonna collapse any minute.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    Crick in the neck ≠ fun. :-/


    heating pad?

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    tjohn said:
    Crick in the neck ≠ fun. :-/


    heating pad?
    2aspirin + caffeine = better now thanks :)

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