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From: jc@cdx39.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Handwriting (was:Input device)
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 15:54:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 15:54:41 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).  

Nonsense.  I usually type, but when I pick up a writing implement, 
I find it quite easy to produce legible writing.  Frankly, I doubt
if there are many people who have gone all-electronic and no longer
handle pens or pencils. 

Furthermore, I recently picked up my sax, after neglecting it for
several years.  The fingering came back instantly.  Of course, the
old embouchure muscles were a bit flabby and tired rapidly, but
the knowledge was certainly there.

> 	...  My handwriting never was great.  

Aha!  The truth emerges. (:-)

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