[lbo-talk] The death of cursive....

andie_nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 26 21:49:10 PST 2012


Marx's handwriting is truly awful. We have to be thankful to Engels for hacking through the notes that he turned into Cap. 2&3.

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On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:41 PM, michael perelman <michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I always found handwriting very difficult. My cursive was difficult
> for me to read unless I wrote at a painfully slow rate. Perhaps it is
> genetic. My brother's handwriting is bad. Marx was also denied a job
> because of his handwriting. The typewriter was a godsend for me.
> Computer keyboards and then voice recognition were wonderful
> technologies for me.
>
> I am always amazed at the flowery handwriting in old manuscripts.
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