Screaming Penguin

This isn't the only thing I have heard about the death of cursive. My boss even mentioned to me that his middle school aged kids are taught to read, but not write in cursive. I have to admit, I just don't care. However, when I write with pen and paper, I never write in cursive, and it is something significant to me. Maybe or maybe not you know that my dad died when I was very young, but somehow, the block letters that they teach engineers and draftsmen is something that feels like a connection between me and my father. It isn't the cursive, it is the lean of the block letters and the high swoop of the R's. I detest writing longhand. I am left handed. If I spend more than a few minutes writing on a piece of paper, my left hand ends up covered in graphite or ink. I have typed all of my papers since before typed papers were required for students, because I can type faster than I write and for all my misspelled words, I get a better result. Interestingly, though, while I can compose on a word processor or this text box, if I really care about the results, I have to print it to get a feel for what I am writing. I have run into this over and over with GWTiP over the last couple of months. It doesn't register until it is on paper. I will drop this now and let Charlie talk about people who use the letter u improperly, though I care less about handwriting, but people who don't know the difference between "then" and "than" make me want to kill someone. Maybe it is because I am from the south, but those aren't even homonyms, how the FUCK can you confuse them?