----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
> En réponse à kendra :
>
>
> >Speaking as a fairly young person (18,) handwriting was hardly taught
when I
> >was young. We learned cursive in third grade and had to mime perfectly
these
> >endless sheets of letters, adn that was that. From then on we had to do
> >things "in ink, in handwriting" (I don't know why handwriting = cursive,
is
> >this a prevalent US thing or just where I live? Anyway...) through about
> >eighth grade, but we were never taught any more handwriting.
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> "Handwriting was hardly taught"? To me, it's identical to say "writing was
> hardly taught". In France, when we learn to write, we learn handwriting!
We
> learn no other way to write than in cursive! And we learn that in first
> primary school year, age 6 thus. Reading has usually been taught a year
> before in the last year of kindergarten. But I fail to understand how you
> can be taught to write otherwise...
To be honest, I can't think of anything more useless than writing in
cursive. It makes things a lot harder to read.