LeviF Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 What is "cursive"? I looked it up and came up with a rock band. Is it what I used to call "longhand"? Yes.
BuffaloBill Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 changes - for those who may still write in cursive I assume they are doing so with a pen and not a feather dipped in ink. Not too far into the future it is highly likely that people may not read from a sheet of paper (newspaper, book, whatever). Time and technolgy marches on.
Jim in Anchorage Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 changes - for those who may still write in cursive I assume they are doing so with a pen and not a feather dipped in ink. Not too far into the future it is highly likely that people may not read from a sheet of paper (newspaper, book, whatever). Time and technolgy marches on. Yes but would this be the same in microsoft word?
BuffaloBill Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 Yes but would this be the same in microsoft word? Absolutely not - however if it was written today I highly doubt it would be documented by hand. Both of my parents have beautiful handwriting as it was a point of emphasis in their upbrining but it is a dying skill. In my mind it is perhaps even more painful to watch some young person who can't figure out how much change they should get from a cashier because they can't do simple math in their head.
bbb Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 Yes but would this be the same in microsoft word? That Jefferson dude had some cool fonts.
The Senator Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 What I find mind-boggling is that none ever feared a Russian missile strike. Anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis, 'duck & cover' drills and crawling under your school desks (as if that would save you from being instantly vaporized by a thermo-nuclear bomb blast), air-raid shelters/sirens, or "This has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System - in the event of a real emergency, you would have been informed the location of the nearest nuclear fallout shelter..."
Jim in Anchorage Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 That Jefferson dude had some cool fonts. "fonts"? I find it a shame that beautiful way of writing has passed into history. If the US declaration of Independence was written today it would look like my phone bill.
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 I love the wristwatch thing. I always wear a watch and I was talking to a young person recently about that. They said "I don't need a watch, I've got the time on my phone" so I asked what time it was. I sat there and watched my second hand go around and around as he fumbled looking for his cell phone. Ok, so email takes to long but you had to check your pockets, look around and finally go back to your cube to tell me what time it was. What did they do before WWI and wristwatches? I think around WWI is when wristwatch came into vogue... If not superimpose whenever that era was... ?? Oh... Yep... They looked at their pocket watch... Not unlike a cellphone... No? Anyway... My cellphone has the date and time right on the front... All you have to is tap it. My wife wears a watch... She wears it on her RIGHT hand! Even know she was born in 1967, you can tell right away that she never wound (while still on a wrist) a wristwatch. Even today, that is my biggest pet peeve about wristwatches... People who where them on the right hand... It looks so wrong!
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 Born just a few years after you and also gave up cursive in college. @10 years ago when taking the GMAT, you had to write out a provided paragraph in cursive. I suppose this was done so they had a record to investigate any cheating (how about a webcam while taking the test?). Anyhow, I really struggled to write a whole paragraph in cursive. I hear you! I remember getting in trouble in drafting class because I used a lettering template... Took my a while to formulate a nice consistent font of my "own." By the time I hit high-school and college, reports/papers were typed mainly on my mother's IBM Selectric II... Then came the PC, first-second year of college and dot matrix printer.
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 I took the SAT in 2008, and you had to do a paragraph in cursive for that as well. They taught my class cursive in 3rd grade. I hated it. I, also, wear a wristwatch at all times. It just feels right. Hopefully not on your RIGHT hand!
Chef Jim Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 What did they do before WWI and wristwatches? I think around WWI is when wristwatch came into vogue... If not superimpose whenever that era was... ?? Oh... Yep... They looked at their pocket watch... Not unlike a cellphone... No? Anyway... My cellphone has the date and time right on the front... All you have to is tap it. My wife wears a watch... She wears it on her RIGHT hand! Even know she was born in 1967, you can tell right away that she never wound (while still on a wrist) a wristwatch. Even today, that is my biggest pet peeve about wristwatches... People who where them on the right hand... It looks so wrong! Except the person who told me he used his cellphone for a watch didn't even have it on him. I'm wearing a watch right now that needs to be wound. That's right, no battery.
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 What I find mind-boggling is that none ever feared a Russian missile strike. Anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis, 'duck & cover' drills and crawling under your school desks (as if that would save you from being instantly vaporized by a thermo-nuclear bomb blast), air-raid shelters/sirens, or "This has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System - in the event of a real emergency, you would have been informed the location of the nearest nuclear fallout shelter..." Yes. Only in kindergarten (Vietnam...1973)... I asked why we are doing this. I still remember what the teacher said: "In case the communists bomb us." Our sump pits below the lock... Where all the wiring goes under the river used to be doubled as "air raid" shelter... The place was built in 1960... They had the "air raid" placards and everything. Just a few years ago they were removed and gonna get tossed... I saved a couple thinking that they were kinda cool! I tried to convince them to leave them in place... No avail!
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 What I find mind-boggling is that none ever feared a Russian missile strike. Anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis, 'duck & cover' drills and crawling under your school desks (as if that would save you from being instantly vaporized by a thermo-nuclear bomb blast), air-raid shelters/sirens, or "This has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System - in the event of a real emergency, you would have been informed the location of the nearest nuclear fallout shelter..." An interesting thing to me regarding my generation is that, despite an attack on America actually being accomplished, the level of fear and paranoia compared to your generation (based on stories my parents have told me) is remarkably lower. I wonder why. Not trying to make any point, just really wondering why. I can't ever remember feeling afraid, and I think most of my friends echo that sentiment.
Chef Jim Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 An interesting thing to me regarding my generation is that, despite an attack on America actually being accomplished, the level of fear and paranoia compared to your generation (based on stories my parents have told me) is remarkably lower. I wonder why. Not trying to make any point, just really wondering why. I can't ever remember feeling afraid, and I think most of my friends echo that sentiment. You had to be there.
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 "fonts"? I find it a shame that beautiful way of writing has passed into history. If the US declaration of Independence was written today it would look like my phone bill. No it wouldn't it would be mechanically done in a similar way. Yes, the little things would disappear... The bottom line is that it would look "too perfect." Do we pine for the days of illuminated print? Maybe... But Guttenberg brought so much to the table that we totally forget about the monks copying works by long hand.
bbb Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 "fonts"? I find it a shame that beautiful way of writing has passed into history. If the US declaration of Independence was written today it would look like my phone bill. Is Linksfiend the only person on this thread who gets my jokes?
Jim in Anchorage Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 An interesting thing to me regarding my generation is that, despite an attack on America actually being accomplished, the level of fear and paranoia compared to your generation (based on stories my parents have told me) is remarkably lower. I wonder why. Not trying to make any point, just really wondering why. I can't ever remember feeling afraid, and I think most of my friends echo that sentiment. Because the USSR is not shipping missiles to Cuba, nor is their premier taking off his shoe and pounding it on the desk at the UN screaming "we will bury you" Very different times. I lived next to camp Pendleton California 1957-63 and even as a baby I knew there was a lot of war tension.
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 An interesting thing to me regarding my generation is that, despite an attack on America actually being accomplished, the level of fear and paranoia compared to your generation (based on stories my parents have told me) is remarkably lower. I wonder why. Not trying to make any point, just really wondering why. I can't ever remember feeling afraid, and I think most of my friends echo that sentiment. You are an "Echo Boomer." That generation was insulated from their parents "fear." That is what good parents do... Why duplicate the stress.
bbb Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 Because the USSR is not shipping missiles to Cuba, nor is their premier taking off his shoe and pounding it on the desk at the UN screaming "we will bury you" Very different times.I lived next to camp Pendleton California 1957-63 and even as a baby I knew there was a lot of war tension. Exactly, I was born in 1962 and I really figured the world would be over by now. Nuclear annilihation seemed to be a given, just a matter of when.......And, I was growing up 20 years after a war where something like 50 million people died. The odds were pretty much that if something were to happen, you'd be going down.........9/11 was horrible, but we still know that our chances of being a terror victim are astronomical.
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 Exactly, I was born in 1962 and I really figured the world would be over by now. Nuclear annilihation seemed to be a given, just a matter of when.......And, I was growing up 20 years after a war where something like 50 million people died. The odds were pretty much that if something were to happen, you'd be going down.........9/11 was horrible, but we still know that our chances of being a terror victim are astronomical. Really? It is all how you are raised. Not calling fault to anybody... My parents and certainly not me ever bought into that BS. It happens, it happens. I did catch the tail end... But my siblings were born in the early 1960's and they feel exactly how I do. My parent's lived through the Great Depression, just like mine did... They got older and raised a family thorugh the 1960's and didn't by the hype.
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