[link] Huh. D'Nealian looks more like many of us are saying we're now doing.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:20:05 am PDT #3099 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:32 am PDT #3100 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
This just seems weird to me. Only 15% of the next batch of college freshmen use cursive? Wow.
Doesn't seem weird to me. I HATED writing anything longer than my name in cursive, and practiced legible printing in school until I got my speed to equal writing in longhand.
sarameg - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:41 am PDT #3101 of 10001
D'Nealian was what we were taught up to second/third where they transitioned to cursive.
beekaytee - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:56 am PDT #3102 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
That's exactly it! Folk get taught how to do that?
I think I started doing it accidentally, right about 5 minutes after I stopped dotting my i's with little flowers in middle school.
Vortex - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:57 am PDT #3103 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I have been told I write "calligraphically". Interestingly, my handwriting is MUCH better when I write with an ink pen than when I write with a ballpoint. MUCH. My normal handwriting is a mix of cursive and printing - some letters connect and some don't.
flea is me.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:24:57 am PDT #3104 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I definitely got the old circle-and-stick, which I could tell was stupid even at the time.
Aims - Oct 11, 2006 8:26:58 am PDT #3105 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My grandfather's handwriting was stunning. He printed a lot, but when he wrote in cursive, it was beautiful.
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2006 8:31:30 am PDT #3106 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Somewhat related: Make your own font. Out of your own handwriting. Seems kinda' cool yet pointless to me....
Glamcookie - Oct 11, 2006 8:35:12 am PDT #3107 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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P.M. Marc - Oct 11, 2006 8:35:23 am PDT #3108 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm a cursive writer since before I was officially taught to do it, and I find it almost impossible not to use cursive (as I keep rediscovering every time I have to fill out forms by hand).
We are as one. I hate printing, and my printing's a royal mess. Filling out college applications sucked.
Also, printing is slow.