Watching the Video, typing this, while the guy says my brain is not functioning properly.
My handwriting is and has always been atrocious. It is worse now of course, because I don’t write. My College Advisor, Henry Wiser, wrote on my exam Bluebook that my handwriting was “Like a Rooster going across a sandy barnyard”. That was in 1965, and it has only gotten worse.
Unsurprising. I even take notes during phone conversations. And this probably has greater reach for other tasks. Didn’t we find that the generation that operated a cash register that states the change due on a transaction has trouble counting back change if not given the number? I mentioned to my granddaughter the other day that I only remember 1 family phone number because the phone does the remembering for me, whereas I formerly remembered copious numbers. If forced to make a general assertion about the “masses”, I would say the ubiquitous Smart Phones are dumbing us down.
I can remember things better if I write them down. They stick in my mind.
Dave Bondy: “Burton City Council Candidate Says He Spoke With Grand Blanc Township Church Shooting Suspect in Chilling Conversation That May Reveal a Possible Motive.” [8:58 video interview with eyewitness interlocutor at link]
In our daily example of “I do not think that word means what you think it means”:
The subhead of that video “Handwriting literally rewires your brain” is literally impossible considering that your brain literally has no wiring.
“Literally” does not mean “figuratively but with more emphasis”.
The English language is being figuratively butchered by these people who are figuratively illiterate.
Literally.
That sounds credible, sdferr. For theological disagreements to extend to mass murder is horrifying and evil.
Great video. It triggers so many related memories.
An old physics prof. who said, “You must solve the problems on paper. Because your fingers do the learning.”
A friend who got his first job as a physics prof. and discovered that his college sophomore students had virtually never solved problems. “Oh boy, that’s going to change.” he told them. Later, he discovered lots of bathroom graffiti cursing him out by name.
My one beloved (joke) 0.7mm Pentel mech pencil that got me through college and graduate school.
When I bought my first PC and struggled for hours and days to switch from composition with handwriting to composition with typing.
A local bar that has wonderful jazz combos twice per week. I sit there, sometimes alone, and sometimes type a journal on my smartphone. Often there is a 30 year old, perhaps, guy who sits nearby and writes. He pulls out this nice small leather folio, opens it exposing a paper notepad, and starts writing with some kind of pen. A 30 year old??
I recall a story from roughly 25 years ago about one of the billionaire enclaves in the greater SF/SJ bay area. Either Woodside, or Atherton, I think. Some very exclusive private grade school had a rule: No computers or similar technology.
When I was an estimator I firmly believed this. There were times I knew something wasn’t right and it could have only come from the plans.
@sailorcurt:The English language is being figuratively butchered by these people who are figuratively illiterate.
This problem is in at least its second century. Ambrose Bierce, in the 1906 Devil’s Dictionary:
LITERALLY, adj. Figuratively, as: “The pond was literally full of fish”; “The ground was literally alive with snakes” etc.
This is also why I believe women would make better estimators on the average. At that age and younger they tend to be more detail oriented.
Choniates,
My favorite Devils dictionary definition is realist.
@TommyJay:An old physics prof. who said, “You must solve the problems on paper. Because your fingers do the learning.”
Math and physics are more like learning to ride a motorcycle or learning to play basketball. You can’t read and regurgitate, you have to practice. Lots of students think that’s how those subjects should work. So they frenetically read about how to ride a motorcycle the night before, they watch some videos of people riding motorcycles, they get some people to ride motorcycles for them while they watch, but the exam is to actually ride the motorcycle themselves and then they are surprised when they dump it three seconds in.
Later, he discovered lots of bathroom graffiti cursing him out by name.
Oh yeah. It’s not as though nobody tries to tell them either, that this is a skill to practice. They just tune you out. You have a handful of students in every section of 300 who actually want to learn it because they are interested, but the rest just want to check a box.
I spent a lot of time with program directors trying to find out what their programs wanted their students to get out of these required classes, and I would repeat these to the students I had, but it didn’t make any difference. Most of them just want to check the box and get the degree, and they want to do as little as they can to get it which is not irrational.
Some of them would tell me they were my customer. I said oh no, you are my product. My customer is your program director and later your employer: if I stamp you as having a skill you don’t have, I’m cheating them.
It’s not that they were lazy either. Lots of them worked hard at part-time jobs. They would do very hard work for a little money, but they would not do hard work for a class they (or their parents, but mostly the taxpayer) were paying for, most of them.
And this was mirrored by the administration, who didn’t care who learned what, they just wanted butts in seats and checks that cleared. I didn’t want to spend my life doing something that nobody really believed in, so I found something else to do (that incidentally pays a lot better).
@Sennacherib:My favorite Devils dictionary definition is realist.
Mine is “riches”:
RICHES, n.
“A gift from Heaven signifying, “This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.”
–John D. Rockefeller
“The reward of toil and virtue.”
–J.P. Morgan
“The savings of many in the hands of one.”
–Eugene Debs
To these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of value.
Today’s excitement, drifting sailboat has been blown aground a couple of hundred yards away. Last time this happened, a USCG Dolphin helo came by to check it out. Boat has about a 30 degree list to port.
Related to practicing physics: I NEVER gave open book, open notes exams. That held true from freshman courses through seniors. The pre-meds especially hated me as they kept saying, due to their previous success in bio and chem courses, that they would have to memorize every equation!. No, I told them, you have to know how to solve the problem, not memorize a solution. The exam always involved a new, to them problems, that were directly related to the material being tested, but not assigned as homework.
By junior year, the physics majors started to appreciate what I was doing and how their skill and knowledge of physics was increasing.
@physicsguy:No, I told them, you have to know how to solve the problem, not memorize a solution.
True for my student days, up through prelims. Some of the prelim problems were set up that if you did it the “standard” way and turned the crank, it would take you all day, but if you thought about the problem you could see a simple way to the solution and be done with it in much less time.
I write cursive all day, every day. I’m just OK.
Reading genealogy records, e.g., the census in the 1800s, I commonly see cursive writing that’s excellent.
Niketas,
Watch out for those Scythians!
@ physicsguy – I taught a summer course once at my kids’ HS, just because they needed a teacher and the admins knew me. The students were mostly seniors who could not graduate without that last math credit, although a few were just trying to get ahead so they wouldn’t have to waste a semester on the course.
Wide range of abilities!
First thing I did was make them put away their calculators and memorize their times tables, possibly for the first time.
Most made it through okay, except one I discovered was a known cheater, who didn’t make it past my guardrails that time (I’ve taught college classes in the past).
My best success was the kid who just wanted to get a D, who actually pulled up to a B, and I bumped his final average a smidgen so he wouldn’t have to take the final exam (didn’t want to bust his momentum).
You would have thought he had won the lottery!
@ sdferr > “Grand Blanc Township Church Shooting Suspect”
Yesterday was not a good day for me and my family and friends.
One thing you aren’t seeing on the news is that the Prophet and President of the LDS Church, Dr. Russell M. Nelson, passed way Saturday night, essentially of old age – he turned 101 a few weeks ago.
This would have broken his heart.
I’m staying kind of detached from the news cycle for awhile, until some of the investigation settles out. 72 hour rule always holds for news.
Many prayers are being said for the victims, and I hope for the shooter.
He apparently had some serious issues, but they should not have led to mass murder.
I am afraid that he may have been reacting to the message from the left, and many
prominent Democrat leaders, that it is okay to kill people you don’t like if you believe they are The Bad Guys.
Never mind if you are correct or not.
*************
I hadn’t read Neo’s next post when I wrote this. It’s really been a massive game-changer for realizing how close we all are to unbelievable violence from unpredictable sources these days.
• 100% believe that taking notes by hand leads to better retention results – and have been sharing articles on that research for some time now (recurring topic for WSJ).
• What I also share with students are the invaluable tips that I used during my uni days (which were also in the pre-laptop era).
1) Mandatory: Rewrite your notes within 48 hours of creating them, will help you to retain the information – even if just literally copy them “as is”.
2) Optional: Create an outline as you rewrite your notes in order to:
a) form an “overall picture” of the topic
b) find gaps – your notes, what covered to date, etc. ^^
c) identify potential questions to ask in class
^^ = made sure to check assigned reading in text books too
• Still take notes by hand in meetings, and encourage my staff to do so too, even for meetings they are leading.
• Point out that they are not trying to create a transcript, they are just capturing key points – decisions, commitments, issues, statements, data, etc. – and emphasizing key points to the other participants by virtue of them watching you make a note.
Niketas,
I was wrong, it’s cynic.
I’m skeptical, if only because the message is too congenial to me.
Back when I was in university, I had the discipline to take notes in class, and then re-copy the notes, adding to them other points from memory that I hadn’t taken down during the lecture, into a separate notebook – one for each class. The second draft notes were much better organized, and neater, and more comprehensive. But more importantly, I discovered a great trick: Re-writing the notes not only gave me a better study guide for reviewing later on, it hard-wired the information into my brain a lot better. Just the process of re-writing the material ! I’ve used the same technique later in the business world, after important meetings, creating File Notes.
I always had very clean, consistent handwriting. Once, doing a crossword (in ink, of course) someone looked at my answers and swore they were pre-printed. I had a college professor that required all papers to be typed, and specifically exempted me from that mandate, in front of the class. My style of writing would probably be called cursive printing.
Aggie,
Something similar happened but in the ninth grade. Working on vocab in French, my father said just write out each word ten times. ‘maison house” Did that before each vocab quiz and got 100% on each one for the rest of my language studies. Did the same for things like memorizing quantum numbers–which would be on a test.
A string of little “A” piled up and helped me with any shortfalls on exams. That’s in the grade end of things. No doubt helped with the answers as well, but in a more complicated fashion.
Had to be a kind of rewiring, since I didn’t have to concentrate. Just move the pencil.
@ AppleBetty > “Reading genealogy records, e.g., the census in the 1800s, I commonly see cursive writing that’s excellent.”
I have my grandfather’s textbook for business writing, which emphasizes readable professional cursive.
A friend of ours had terrible handwriting, back in the day when we actually were taught cursive in school, so he resolved to make it better. He ended up learning how to write in Spencerian script, and made beautiful “posters” for Christmas, birthdays, new babies, etc.
He became a professional genealogist.
One of our sons had terrible writing, cursive or print; we claimed he wrote in “deformed Egyptian.” (That’s an LDS in-joke.)
Another became an architect and has lovely block-printing, of course, since he got his degree before cad-cam and drafting software were widely available.
The rest of us range somewhere in-between, but who writes by hand anymore?
My older sister had lovely script, and wrote real letters to her friends all through her life. The letters are a little shaky now, but better than mine ever were!
I took notes in HS and college. In HS, a friend and I traded off in one class, using carbon paper to make two copies. There was one guy in math class who tried to get me to let him copy my notes (he was smart but lazy), so I charged him $5 a day (that was serious money for students then) and he gave it up.
In college, I did loan out notes to friends, mostly those I knew were sleeping through class because they stayed late at play rehearsal.
Sadly, none of that got me a summa cum laude, but I also spent too much time in the theater.
@ Richard Aubrey > “Had to be a kind of rewiring, since I didn’t have to concentrate. Just move the pencil.”
Yep.
There is a reason why we were told to copy out our vocabulary and spelling words twenty times (or more), or given disciplinary “I will/will not X” sentences to write on the blackboard.
Now, the teachers would not be allowed to single anyone out in such an embarrassing way, if they are allowed to (or are willing to) correct them at all.
Of course, in the Hogwarts books, Harry Potter’s teacher Delores Umbridge took that to a sadistic extreme, but that’s one of the things that helped us old folks relate to fiction that was also popular with our kids and grandkids.
Maybe they still did that in England.
PS Somehow I have never seen any speculation as to why the Wizarding School had such a repulsive name! Do hogs even have warts??
Aesop, that’s great about the deformed Egyptian! As to the architect stuff, I took a drafting class one time in HS. I’m not positive that it significantly affected my handwriting quality, but it certainly didn’t hurt it.
Chases Eagles, I’m interested in the story of this sailboat. Did you happen to scope it out with binoculars? Maybe something curious happened.
The only thing I can offer in return is that, an hour ago, a tow truck arrived in back of my apartment to take away an SUV that had apparently broken down on the main street back there. It’s just outside my bedroom window. It took the tow truck guy about half an hour to complete the work from start to finish, which I thought was pretty excessive, but he’s the one doing the work, not I, so I let it be. It is not as charming as a drifting sailboat, alas.
I went to grade school back in the dark ages, when they still gave grades for handwriting. I regularly got D’s in handwriting, no matter how hard I tried, but A’s in everything else. Today my cursive is legible, mostly, but still ugly.
Fast forward to high school, I took a drafting class and was taught how to print. For some reason, I took to that well, and developed very good printing skills. Sixty years later, people still occasionally comment on my printing.
I would like to hear some psychologist explain why I could learn to print, but not write cursive.
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Watching the Video, typing this, while the guy says my brain is not functioning properly.
My handwriting is and has always been atrocious. It is worse now of course, because I don’t write. My College Advisor, Henry Wiser, wrote on my exam Bluebook that my handwriting was “Like a Rooster going across a sandy barnyard”. That was in 1965, and it has only gotten worse.
Unsurprising. I even take notes during phone conversations. And this probably has greater reach for other tasks. Didn’t we find that the generation that operated a cash register that states the change due on a transaction has trouble counting back change if not given the number? I mentioned to my granddaughter the other day that I only remember 1 family phone number because the phone does the remembering for me, whereas I formerly remembered copious numbers. If forced to make a general assertion about the “masses”, I would say the ubiquitous Smart Phones are dumbing us down.
I can remember things better if I write them down. They stick in my mind.
Dave Bondy: “Burton City Council Candidate Says He Spoke With Grand Blanc Township Church Shooting Suspect in Chilling Conversation That May Reveal a Possible Motive.” [8:58 video interview with eyewitness interlocutor at link]
https://x.com/DaveBondyTV/status/1972451255113978016
In our daily example of “I do not think that word means what you think it means”:
The subhead of that video “Handwriting literally rewires your brain” is literally impossible considering that your brain literally has no wiring.
“Literally” does not mean “figuratively but with more emphasis”.
The English language is being figuratively butchered by these people who are figuratively illiterate.
Literally.
That sounds credible, sdferr. For theological disagreements to extend to mass murder is horrifying and evil.
Great video. It triggers so many related memories.
An old physics prof. who said, “You must solve the problems on paper. Because your fingers do the learning.”
A friend who got his first job as a physics prof. and discovered that his college sophomore students had virtually never solved problems. “Oh boy, that’s going to change.” he told them. Later, he discovered lots of bathroom graffiti cursing him out by name.
My one beloved (joke) 0.7mm Pentel mech pencil that got me through college and graduate school.
When I bought my first PC and struggled for hours and days to switch from composition with handwriting to composition with typing.
A local bar that has wonderful jazz combos twice per week. I sit there, sometimes alone, and sometimes type a journal on my smartphone. Often there is a 30 year old, perhaps, guy who sits nearby and writes. He pulls out this nice small leather folio, opens it exposing a paper notepad, and starts writing with some kind of pen. A 30 year old??
I recall a story from roughly 25 years ago about one of the billionaire enclaves in the greater SF/SJ bay area. Either Woodside, or Atherton, I think. Some very exclusive private grade school had a rule: No computers or similar technology.
When I was an estimator I firmly believed this. There were times I knew something wasn’t right and it could have only come from the plans.
@sailorcurt:The English language is being figuratively butchered by these people who are figuratively illiterate.
This problem is in at least its second century. Ambrose Bierce, in the 1906 Devil’s Dictionary:
This is also why I believe women would make better estimators on the average. At that age and younger they tend to be more detail oriented.
Choniates,
My favorite Devils dictionary definition is realist.
@TommyJay:An old physics prof. who said, “You must solve the problems on paper. Because your fingers do the learning.”
Math and physics are more like learning to ride a motorcycle or learning to play basketball. You can’t read and regurgitate, you have to practice. Lots of students think that’s how those subjects should work. So they frenetically read about how to ride a motorcycle the night before, they watch some videos of people riding motorcycles, they get some people to ride motorcycles for them while they watch, but the exam is to actually ride the motorcycle themselves and then they are surprised when they dump it three seconds in.
Later, he discovered lots of bathroom graffiti cursing him out by name.
Oh yeah. It’s not as though nobody tries to tell them either, that this is a skill to practice. They just tune you out. You have a handful of students in every section of 300 who actually want to learn it because they are interested, but the rest just want to check a box.
I spent a lot of time with program directors trying to find out what their programs wanted their students to get out of these required classes, and I would repeat these to the students I had, but it didn’t make any difference. Most of them just want to check the box and get the degree, and they want to do as little as they can to get it which is not irrational.
Some of them would tell me they were my customer. I said oh no, you are my product. My customer is your program director and later your employer: if I stamp you as having a skill you don’t have, I’m cheating them.
It’s not that they were lazy either. Lots of them worked hard at part-time jobs. They would do very hard work for a little money, but they would not do hard work for a class they (or their parents, but mostly the taxpayer) were paying for, most of them.
And this was mirrored by the administration, who didn’t care who learned what, they just wanted butts in seats and checks that cleared. I didn’t want to spend my life doing something that nobody really believed in, so I found something else to do (that incidentally pays a lot better).
@Sennacherib:My favorite Devils dictionary definition is realist.
Mine is “riches”:
Today’s excitement, drifting sailboat has been blown aground a couple of hundred yards away. Last time this happened, a USCG Dolphin helo came by to check it out. Boat has about a 30 degree list to port.
Related to practicing physics: I NEVER gave open book, open notes exams. That held true from freshman courses through seniors. The pre-meds especially hated me as they kept saying, due to their previous success in bio and chem courses, that they would have to memorize every equation!. No, I told them, you have to know how to solve the problem, not memorize a solution. The exam always involved a new, to them problems, that were directly related to the material being tested, but not assigned as homework.
By junior year, the physics majors started to appreciate what I was doing and how their skill and knowledge of physics was increasing.
@physicsguy:No, I told them, you have to know how to solve the problem, not memorize a solution.
True for my student days, up through prelims. Some of the prelim problems were set up that if you did it the “standard” way and turned the crank, it would take you all day, but if you thought about the problem you could see a simple way to the solution and be done with it in much less time.
I write cursive all day, every day. I’m just OK.
Reading genealogy records, e.g., the census in the 1800s, I commonly see cursive writing that’s excellent.
Niketas,
Watch out for those Scythians!
@ physicsguy – I taught a summer course once at my kids’ HS, just because they needed a teacher and the admins knew me. The students were mostly seniors who could not graduate without that last math credit, although a few were just trying to get ahead so they wouldn’t have to waste a semester on the course.
Wide range of abilities!
First thing I did was make them put away their calculators and memorize their times tables, possibly for the first time.
Most made it through okay, except one I discovered was a known cheater, who didn’t make it past my guardrails that time (I’ve taught college classes in the past).
My best success was the kid who just wanted to get a D, who actually pulled up to a B, and I bumped his final average a smidgen so he wouldn’t have to take the final exam (didn’t want to bust his momentum).
You would have thought he had won the lottery!
@ sdferr > “Grand Blanc Township Church Shooting Suspect”
Yesterday was not a good day for me and my family and friends.
One thing you aren’t seeing on the news is that the Prophet and President of the LDS Church, Dr. Russell M. Nelson, passed way Saturday night, essentially of old age – he turned 101 a few weeks ago.
This would have broken his heart.
I’m staying kind of detached from the news cycle for awhile, until some of the investigation settles out. 72 hour rule always holds for news.
Many prayers are being said for the victims, and I hope for the shooter.
He apparently had some serious issues, but they should not have led to mass murder.
I am afraid that he may have been reacting to the message from the left, and many
prominent Democrat leaders, that it is okay to kill people you don’t like if you believe they are The Bad Guys.
Never mind if you are correct or not.
*************
I hadn’t read Neo’s next post when I wrote this. It’s really been a massive game-changer for realizing how close we all are to unbelievable violence from unpredictable sources these days.
• 100% believe that taking notes by hand leads to better retention results – and have been sharing articles on that research for some time now (recurring topic for WSJ).
• What I also share with students are the invaluable tips that I used during my uni days (which were also in the pre-laptop era).
1) Mandatory: Rewrite your notes within 48 hours of creating them, will help you to retain the information – even if just literally copy them “as is”.
2) Optional: Create an outline as you rewrite your notes in order to:
a) form an “overall picture” of the topic
b) find gaps – your notes, what covered to date, etc. ^^
c) identify potential questions to ask in class
^^ = made sure to check assigned reading in text books too
• Still take notes by hand in meetings, and encourage my staff to do so too, even for meetings they are leading.
• Point out that they are not trying to create a transcript, they are just capturing key points – decisions, commitments, issues, statements, data, etc. – and emphasizing key points to the other participants by virtue of them watching you make a note.
Niketas,
I was wrong, it’s cynic.
I’m skeptical, if only because the message is too congenial to me.
Back when I was in university, I had the discipline to take notes in class, and then re-copy the notes, adding to them other points from memory that I hadn’t taken down during the lecture, into a separate notebook – one for each class. The second draft notes were much better organized, and neater, and more comprehensive. But more importantly, I discovered a great trick: Re-writing the notes not only gave me a better study guide for reviewing later on, it hard-wired the information into my brain a lot better. Just the process of re-writing the material ! I’ve used the same technique later in the business world, after important meetings, creating File Notes.
I always had very clean, consistent handwriting. Once, doing a crossword (in ink, of course) someone looked at my answers and swore they were pre-printed. I had a college professor that required all papers to be typed, and specifically exempted me from that mandate, in front of the class. My style of writing would probably be called cursive printing.
Aggie,
Something similar happened but in the ninth grade. Working on vocab in French, my father said just write out each word ten times. ‘maison house” Did that before each vocab quiz and got 100% on each one for the rest of my language studies. Did the same for things like memorizing quantum numbers–which would be on a test.
A string of little “A” piled up and helped me with any shortfalls on exams. That’s in the grade end of things. No doubt helped with the answers as well, but in a more complicated fashion.
Had to be a kind of rewiring, since I didn’t have to concentrate. Just move the pencil.
@ AppleBetty > “Reading genealogy records, e.g., the census in the 1800s, I commonly see cursive writing that’s excellent.”
I have my grandfather’s textbook for business writing, which emphasizes readable professional cursive.
A friend of ours had terrible handwriting, back in the day when we actually were taught cursive in school, so he resolved to make it better. He ended up learning how to write in Spencerian script, and made beautiful “posters” for Christmas, birthdays, new babies, etc.
He became a professional genealogist.
One of our sons had terrible writing, cursive or print; we claimed he wrote in “deformed Egyptian.” (That’s an LDS in-joke.)
Another became an architect and has lovely block-printing, of course, since he got his degree before cad-cam and drafting software were widely available.
The rest of us range somewhere in-between, but who writes by hand anymore?
My older sister had lovely script, and wrote real letters to her friends all through her life. The letters are a little shaky now, but better than mine ever were!
I took notes in HS and college. In HS, a friend and I traded off in one class, using carbon paper to make two copies. There was one guy in math class who tried to get me to let him copy my notes (he was smart but lazy), so I charged him $5 a day (that was serious money for students then) and he gave it up.
In college, I did loan out notes to friends, mostly those I knew were sleeping through class because they stayed late at play rehearsal.
Sadly, none of that got me a summa cum laude, but I also spent too much time in the theater.
@ Richard Aubrey > “Had to be a kind of rewiring, since I didn’t have to concentrate. Just move the pencil.”
Yep.
There is a reason why we were told to copy out our vocabulary and spelling words twenty times (or more), or given disciplinary “I will/will not X” sentences to write on the blackboard.
Now, the teachers would not be allowed to single anyone out in such an embarrassing way, if they are allowed to (or are willing to) correct them at all.
Of course, in the Hogwarts books, Harry Potter’s teacher Delores Umbridge took that to a sadistic extreme, but that’s one of the things that helped us old folks relate to fiction that was also popular with our kids and grandkids.
Maybe they still did that in England.
PS Somehow I have never seen any speculation as to why the Wizarding School had such a repulsive name! Do hogs even have warts??
Aesop, that’s great about the deformed Egyptian! As to the architect stuff, I took a drafting class one time in HS. I’m not positive that it significantly affected my handwriting quality, but it certainly didn’t hurt it.
Chases Eagles, I’m interested in the story of this sailboat. Did you happen to scope it out with binoculars? Maybe something curious happened.
The only thing I can offer in return is that, an hour ago, a tow truck arrived in back of my apartment to take away an SUV that had apparently broken down on the main street back there. It’s just outside my bedroom window. It took the tow truck guy about half an hour to complete the work from start to finish, which I thought was pretty excessive, but he’s the one doing the work, not I, so I let it be. It is not as charming as a drifting sailboat, alas.
I’m afraid this feature is becoming one of the highlights of my weekly blog reading.
https://notthebee.com/article/bee-forum-news-kamala-regrets-not-choosing-autopen-as-running-mate
I went to grade school back in the dark ages, when they still gave grades for handwriting. I regularly got D’s in handwriting, no matter how hard I tried, but A’s in everything else. Today my cursive is legible, mostly, but still ugly.
Fast forward to high school, I took a drafting class and was taught how to print. For some reason, I took to that well, and developed very good printing skills. Sixty years later, people still occasionally comment on my printing.
I would like to hear some psychologist explain why I could learn to print, but not write cursive.