Re:Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to...
by iepathos on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:51PM
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Depends what profession you end up pursuing. If your son pursues computer science then likely never need to use handwriting ever again. As a 10+ year software engineer I've never needed to handwrite anything professionally, not once. Personally, still like to do the occasional handwritten card or letter for friends and family.
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Re:Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to...
by natoliniak on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:59PM
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> not once
not even on a white board?
Re:Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to...
by ghaff on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:02PM
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Mostly don't even use those these days--basically never in an office. Collaborative docs are more common. I mean you need basic at least somewhat legible printing but that's probably fine for a lot of things these days.
Handwriting was always my worst grade in elementary school and don't really know Palmer script any longer.
Re:Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to...
by eichin on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @12:37AM
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Also turns out to be a different skill. (My old school printing is fine, my old school cursive was pretty much gone by day one of college, chalkboards are almost always slow block-printing - so when I started using whiteboards, it was all cursive patterns that were unreadable and mostly served as a vague reminder to the audience of what I said when I was scribbling over there.)
About 5 years ago I was inspired by a friend casually doing some amazing whiteboard art at work, and ended up trying a more calligraphic approach (not fancy gothic patterns, just that kind of intent/attention.) A lot slower, but a bunch of coworkers privately requested that I keep up the new approach...