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Subject: Re: Handwriting (was:Input device)
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Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 20:54:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 20:54:25 1987
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> Do people who use a keyboard almost exclusively ... begin to forget
> how to write with a pencil/pen, or get worse at it?

That is my experience.  Like anything else, what you don't use, slowly
atrophies (in the mental sense, you forget how).  My handwriting never
was great.  I suspect there's a correlation between bad penmanship and
eventual comfort using a typewriter/terminal instead.  Woe unto all
those throwbacks who write prettily!

Alan Silverstein