Wojtek Sent from my Droid On Nov 26, 2012 1:25 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Fair enough. But would you generalize from your situation to say that
> learning cursive has no value?
>
> Joanna
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> So I guess before keyboards I would have failed elementary school, and
> never received even a basic education. . Since I would not have been
> able to learn most crafts as well, I would have been dismissed as a
> slow great ox, incapable of learning anything. Or more likely as too
> lazy to learn. I don't know what my fate would have been, but it
> would not have a pleasant one. So I don't have much sympathy for
> those who mourn the prevalence of keyboards and computers. For me, a
> world without keyboards would be a nightmare. Without computers, well
> as long as I had a typewriter it would be tolerable, but computers
> save me a great deal of misery.
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