Re: OT More pens

As far as I'm concerned, I adore printing when other people are writing.  I
work in customer service positions (at one time I was processing all the new
memberships for the AARP, one of the largest private clubs in the US) and I
can assure everyone that at the very least, a substantial portion of the
American public does NOT produce legible cursive writing.  Even their block
printing is questionable.  My stepmother's versions of both are completely
hopeless; I can't even read her grocery lists.

Even when I was fairly young, though, people commented that they liked my
cursive writing.  I used the D'Neillian (can't spell... can't spell) system,
as well as a version of a system that was published for late 19th-century
schools (when I was much older -- teenagerish -- because I begged my mom to
help me make my cursive writing more attractive).  That was full of the
/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| type exercises, which I at least found quite helpful.  And
I was about the only student who WASN'T completely dismayed to learn that in
Russian class, everything has to be done in cursive.  All those funny
nonsense exercises came back to me as I learned to draw "backwards"
letters...

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
lloannna@surfside.net
http://lloannna.blogspot.com

It's all one big conspiracy, and it's all about me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
> Why? How many jobs require the ability to do cursive writing? None to
> very few in Australia, I'd say! It seems a very arbitrary thing to
> discriminate against. (With everything that says 'please print' or
> 'block letters only!' or some variation on that theme, I'd be suprised
> if anyone *wanted* cursive.)
>

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