Is handwriting dead?

[Eggs]

...when I started work in the 70s, you quickly learned to know who colleagues where by their handwriting. When I retired in 2016, you had no idea.

Amazing how technology has changed life in such a such a relatively short period. I suppose I mainly use it to write out a betting slip every Saturday!!

 

[PhilM]

I always hand write notes and to do lists. Apparently your brain absorbs the information much better when handwriting rather than typing.

I find it more difficult and time consuming to find grammatical or spelling errors when it is on a screen, whereas if it's in handwritten form it simply stands out.

For the very reason you stated as well, I also write far more often than I am required to (at home too) as I find it easier to retain and process the information.

My wife bought me a MontBlanc fountain pen a few years ago and it's a dream to write with, although in work I'm most often using a Parker style pen.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Why, I still use a quill.

 

[larbert toffee]

Why, I still use a quill.

 

[evilwebby]

Still have to write out my betting slips

 

[Sid James]

My son was the same at school - now a top network computer engineer - my daughter fantastic at everything at school went to university a top degree, a masters in business studies - only just now after a struggle got on the job ladder so handwriting in school used to be very important - now ?........
The electronic computer world is taking over voip telephones are on their way exit landlines in the future......
Who post a written letter now other than a Christmas card?

It just got better, got his A level results today 2A's and an A*... Proud dad here

 

[Market trader]

Although I am quite techie, I also paint and draw so I am still writing notes and developing ideas in one or other of three notebooks I use regularly. I don't think that my handwriting is as good as it was though, as the notes are only intended for me.

 

[gianthogweed]

A lot of things die out with generations putting pen to paper wont be one of them

 

[GwladysBlue]

I hand write all of my notes when I’m out on site.

 

[Brendan Janus]

I write the songs that make the whole world sing !

 

[marsh]

I have lovely handwriting

 

[Brisan123]

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.

One of life’s simple pleasures is a quiet pub on a weekday afternoon reading a book beside an open fire

 

[Brisan123]

Same here and it also helps you to keep your handwriting style too.

My dad still uses a beautiful old pen with a nib and ink to write.

The stuff he writes looks beautiful, the eye is drawn to it.

I can remember in the late 60s early 70s spending at least an hour a day in school practising writing with a nib and ink
Then moved on to a fountain pen
Pages and pages of capital letters and then lower case letters , then words and then sentences