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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.

The New Yorker wonders:

My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can't escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every year, there are worried articles about the decline of cursive and its omission from school curricula. And there's a backlash, one that I secretly cheer for. When I read that Washington state is now considering Senate Bill 6469, "an act related to requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools," I gave a little fist pump in the air.

Cursive and handwriting are dead. Communication of the future will be done with pure emoticons.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @12:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @12:36AM (#421894)

    I think you mean stenography. Steganography's great for spies, but not so hot for throughput.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by NotSanguine on Thursday November 03 2016, @01:22AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday November 03 2016, @01:22AM (#421902) Homepage Journal

    That reminds me of when I walked in to Barnes & Noble many years ago and asked the clerk where the 'Cosmology' section was, and she took me to the 'Cosmetology' section.

    Even after explaining what I really wanted, this young woman *still* needed to ask for help. Apparently, we live in different universes.

    cf. The unwashed masses get only safety pencils and circles of paper [youtube.com].

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday November 03 2016, @06:40AM

      by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Thursday November 03 2016, @06:40AM (#421952) Journal

      Ironically, you'd have already known that you inhabited different universes if could actually find a book in the cosmology section.