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Auburn Annie · 07-25-2008, 10:17 PM

The "I" looks like abbreviated Spencerian style; Palmer and Spencer were competing penmanship styles taught in the early part of the last century. As with so many other learned skills, we create our own distinct writing style as we grow up; too bad penmanship is going the way of buggy whips. Before long, no one will write in longhand - they'll just text everything to/from cell phones and computers.

I wouldn't mind so much if folks could just SPELL properly. This morning there was a news item on TV about the big tear in the fuselage of the Qantas plane en route to London. The headline read "WHOLE IN SIDE OF PLANE" and I'm yellling at the screen "it's HOLE, H-O-L-E, you morons!" I fear it's a losing battle, alas.

07-25-2008, 10:17 PM	#7
Auburn Annie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 3,101	Re: CBC saluting Folk Festival season The "I" looks like abbreviated Spencerian style; Palmer and Spencer were competing penmanship styles taught in the early part of the last century. As with so many other learned skills, we create our own distinct writing style as we grow up; too bad penmanship is going the way of buggy whips. Before long, no one will write in longhand - they'll just text everything to/from cell phones and computers. I wouldn't mind so much if folks could just SPELL properly. This morning there was a news item on TV about the big tear in the fuselage of the Qantas plane en route to London. The headline read "WHOLE IN SIDE OF PLANE" and I'm yellling at the screen "it's HOLE, H-O-L-E, you morons!" I fear it's a losing battle, alas.