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From: michael@crlt.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Handwriting (was:Input device)
Message-ID: <653@crlt.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 10:11:31 EST
Article-I.D.: crlt.653
Posted: Sun Feb 22 10:11:31 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Feb-87 02:54:42 EST
References: <1191@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <191@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <1145@rti-sel.UUCP> <621@cdx39.UUCP>
Organization: CRLT , Ann Arbor, MI
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Summary: Block <-> intelligence & Info request on cursive.

[I know there's a line eater, 'cause I've seen its droppings.}

Regarding the contention that block printing is a sign of intelligence -
I can see at least two ways that would develop.  First, people who have
taken drafting courses (self included) tend to switch to block for clarity,
and such courses tend to be taught in college, so the students have been
pre-sorted for what is publicly interpreted as "intelligence", and spend
years of intensive study of skills that amount to "looking smart".  Second,
people who are mentally active and flexible will often find the handwriting
they've been taught illegible, and make changes in it to solve the problem,
while the "clods", if they recognize the problem at all, will not think of
it as soluble, or only as soluble by "practicing harder" with the form of
script they've been taught.

In article <621@cdx39.UUCP>, jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
> 
> Well, I adopted Italic script when I was about 22, and I've never
> regretted the couple hours it took to get it into my subconscious.

You've sold me, I want to try it.  Can you give me a pointer to a
good book (or teacher) on the subject - preferably the one you used,
since your results were so good?

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