The importance of handwriting is now better understood

Re:The importance of handwriting is now better understood by TRiG_Ireland on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:38AM (#37914009)

I recall my mother writing a personal letter to sooth a family dispute. It was long. She wrote it on the computer, so she could edit it and arrange her words to fit her meaning, printed it, and copied it out longhand for the personal touch.

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Re:The importance of handwriting is now better understood by tines on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:07PM (#37917243)

> to sooth a family dispute

I think you want the word "soothe" which means to calm. "Sooth" means "truth" as in "sooth-sayer."

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Re:The importance of handwriting is now better understood by dbtc on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:01PM (#37920755)

soothe from Old English soðian ... from soð "true" (see sooth).

The sense of "quiet, comfort, restore to tranquility," in reference to a person or animal, is by 1690s, via the notion of "to assuage one by asserting that what he says is true,"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/soothe

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Re:The importance of handwriting is now better understood by tines on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:53PM (#37931387)

Sure, but we're speaking English, not Old English. In English, the (archaic) word sooth is a noun, and soothe is a verb.

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Re:The importance of handwriting is now better understood by TRiG_Ireland on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:41PM (#37933735)

Etymology is often fascinating.

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