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sounds_sound  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mom, what was handwriting? - - Boston.com

    I write my books by hand. I thought I was virtually alone in this, but there are all sorts of writers that continue writing their books by hand.

Hensher knows a lot of handwriters still, so what are we talking about here? Schools haven't stopped teaching handwriting, they've stopped teaching cursive. As long as humans continue to pass on the opposable thumb gene, we'll be using it take hold of instruments with which to write. Don't everyone go out and stock up on paper. And not that the evolution of writing isn't interesting, because it is. I just think the water is a bit muddy in this article.

EDIT: Or maybe I'm missing something. I googled 'handwriting' and what I see are pages of cursive. Am I to understand that handwriting is the same as cursive? When I print something by hand, isn't that also handwriting? I always thought the term handwriting encompassed both print and cursive writing styles. Am I going crazy?