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On Nov 24, 2012, at 7:18 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Jordan Hayes
>
>>> ...is not a good thing.
>>
>> Yeah, and I miss the horse-drawn carriage, too. Middle English, I
>> suppose, too.
>>
>> I skipped 3rd grade, and thus never formally learned cursive. I
>> stopped using cursive when I started to keyboard, oh around 1975? 6th
>> grade. It didn't impact my fine motor skills or self-identity. But it
>> did speed up my ability to write and be understood.
>>
>> What a load of bullshit.
>
> Don't you miss the abacus too? Are there still math teachers who don't let
> students use calculators for tests? While the grade never bothered me, then
> or now, I'm still pissed off at the stupidity of the calculus prof who
> lowered my semester grade from an A to a B after I lost 20 points on a
> 5-question final exam from adding 9+8= 19!
>
> I got a computer when I was 42. Up to then I had done my writing in legal
> pads, then typed it and revised from the typescript. But most initial
> writing was always by hand. It took me about 4 months, & I never again wrote
> by hand except for marginal notes on computer print-outs. Like Jordan, I
> think it improved my writing considerably. Shortly & I'll probably have to
> shift to dictating to the computer; I don't know whether I'll be able to
> learn to compose orally or not.
>
> Carrol
>
>
>
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