Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 14:44:13 -0700 kendra <kendra@...> writes:
>
> I know, it always seemed rather backwards to me. Why hassle us so
> much about
> good penmanship and writing in cursive if they hardly ever made us
> do it? I
> write in cursive because I like the way it looks but mainly because
> I think
> too fast to write in printing (the excrutiating slowness gets to me
> after a
> few lines,) but most people don't even know how to write in cursive
> anymore.
i usually write in printing because the excrutiating slowness of cursive
(i have to write really slow if i want it to be legible) gets to me after
a few words...  my brain also associates cursive with french for some
reason, and for some reason i can't get over this feeling that there's
something very wrong with french...

> -Kendra
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