Is handwriting dead?

handwriting, is it dead?

  • 1 I use it regularly

    Votes: 27 39.7%

  • 2 Still use it now and again

    Votes: 14 20.6%

  • 3 Seldom use it

    Votes: 17 25.0%

  • 4 Never use it

    Votes: 7 10.3%

  • 5 'koff Kev you dinasaur

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • 6 calligraphic cheese on toasted paper

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • Total voters
    68
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Back in the 60s everything seemed to be handwritten. The standard form of communication was a written letter. Having a 'pen pal' was a common phenomena . Even people who rarely corresponded would send postcards from their holidays, write notes for the milkman etc.
Even throughout most of my working life I used to use handwriting on a daily basis. (although towards the end reports etc would be done on computer)
I retired in 2011 and I realised the other day that I can't remember the last time I wrote anything down.
I am genuinely interested to know how many people regularly use handwriting now.
I realise that there are a lot of younger posters on here and some have maybe never used it on a regular basis. What about the people who used to use the written word? Is there anybody out there who still writes regularly these days?
 

When I'm writing finals I do it, otherwise no. Which is a shame really, found it more satisfying to write an assignment with paper and pen rather than the computer which you are obligated to use nowadays.
 

Most of my handwriting was marking. I could write an almost calligraphic 'what a load if bo***ocks very quickly with practice.

Since I quit/retired/told education it can do one, I only write my homebrew beer recipes, and the occasional measurement in my workshop.
 
Still take notes by hand a fair amount of the time. Write thank you cards and the like by hand. I jot notes while traveling. Sometimes I'll take a photo of a page of notes and put it in Evernote or the like, which helps eliminate having to choose between paper/computer.
 
I write stuff down everyday in my job. Shocking handwriting and not a hint of calligraphy but it's handwritten all the same.

LEONARD said:
Hard to believe that we are the same nation that gave the world Shakespeare and Dickens.

Reading (books) writing, and intelligent conversation, all seem to be things of the past.

It won't end well believe me.
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Shakespeare, Dickens or Chaucer would have used a word processor if the option was available. There are some who would have put Caxton's windows through with a handwritten parchment attached to a brick.

Plenty of people read books - On a Kindle perhaps but it's reading all the same. And for every enlightened and intelligent conversation that was held in past days I'd be pretty certain there were far more pig ignorant conversations and terrible books.
 

ClausThomsen said:
Shakespeare, Dickens or Chaucer would have used a word processor if the option was available.
Plenty of people read books - On a Kindle perhaps but it's reading all the same. And for every enlightened and intelligent conversation that was held in past days I'd be pretty certain there were far more pig ignorant conversations and terrible books.
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Fair points TBH
 
My lad , was getting poor results in school for Exams and Tests yet his homework was fine, I asked the teacher why , they said lack of detail in his answers but his detail in his homework was spot on. I asked the lad and he said he didn't have enough time in the exams as he had to write really slowly to make it legible. I spoke to the teacher and said something along the lines of , you're grading his knowledge of a given subject not his handwriting ability as he clearly has a problem. As a result they now allow him to use a laptop for exams (borderline disability) and his results have improved no end ... to answer the question, I don't see a place for handwriting outside of arty types and calligraphers. If you were hiring and received and hand written application letter would you just bin it
 

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