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WritingBBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The slow death of handwriting

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

"For some, that is already the case. But writer Kitty Burns Florey says the art of handwriting is declining so fast that ordinary, joined-up script may become as hard to read as a medieval manuscript."

A century from now, our handwriting may only be legible to experts. I watch my grandson struggle to write in cursive, but type with ease on the computer. And I suspect this may come to be true. He is 13 and already loves the computer's ability to spell check on the fly.

My grandson has not ever seen a typewriter either. How can this be?

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  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2010
    I lost most of my handwriting already. I naturally write with block letters.

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2010
    What?  They're still teaching cursive?  I stopped using it as soon as I was allowed (7th grade, I believe, I'm now 35) and haven't looked back. As long as you're pressing a child to learn an obscure writing system that will be incomprehensible to his or her peers, teach them Chinese characters.  The payoff will be far greater.