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As much as I enjoy writing in my journal by hand at night, and though everyone is going small with phones and pads, there yet remains something to be said for the speed and efficacy of a good keyboard, be it on a laptop or desktop. My keyboard may not be the best quality on this laptop, but it is not cramped, and I can write ever so much faster here, as well as edit mistakes. It's much easier to write nearer to the speed at which I think, certainly. I've been hand writing for well over a decade now, but I still don't do so swiftly. I have write as I always have, small, and fairly precise. I always dreaded timed essays in school for that reason. I never could put enough down in the time allotted. Well, that, and I simply hate all essays with a fiery passion. But a good laptop, writing whatever I feel like writing? Terrific.
To be fair, the slower speed of writing by hand does allow my thoughts to coalesce a bit more into something slightly more coherent, though still a bit in the vein of stream of consciousness. I hate writing on phones. They are so imprecise and it's inevitable to make many mistakes, which then take a bit of time to correct. I've always been a stickler for presenting my thoughts and words as I intend them even in texts and messaging. For that reason, I tend to turn off even auto capitalizing and auto word correction on my phone. I want to emphasize what I want to emphasize, and structure my sentence as I want, in order to aptly convey my meaning, particularly when it comes to nuances. Also, most emojis are stupid. A few are useful, but if you have to use them to make yourself properly understood, then you need to learn how to better write. Using them as nuance in a statement, or to punctuate a feeling is a great idea, but otherwise, do we really need to return to hieroglyphics? Also, it's a bit difficult to translate into speech... Not going to go on a rant.
I'm all for brevity of thought and speech, but only if it aptly and truly conveys the entirety of the thought. Words, properly harnessed, can paint the most vivid of pictures all their own, and uses the reader's imagination to fit it all together. Man, now I want to go reread so many books. Also, I return to the thought of how much longer writing by hand takes. Looking at even this amount thus far that I have, it sure would have taken a long-ass time (long ass-time, as xkcd would say) to do by hand. I've slowly worked at, and improved upon, my cursive skills, which were practically non-existent all throughout school, but it is neither very fast, nor nearly as compact as my normal, so I don't often do so. I can barely imagine the days, only a few decades gone, when all children wrote cursive, and all essays and assignments were by hand. I hate essays as it is, and I only ever wrote them once, spell checked them, then turned them in. I wouldn't fancy having to rewrite them numerous times. Though t'would be cool to have a practiced hand at cursive. I slaver over calligraphy done well.
And now my brain is empty. Bed time.
To be fair, the slower speed of writing by hand does allow my thoughts to coalesce a bit more into something slightly more coherent, though still a bit in the vein of stream of consciousness. I hate writing on phones. They are so imprecise and it's inevitable to make many mistakes, which then take a bit of time to correct. I've always been a stickler for presenting my thoughts and words as I intend them even in texts and messaging. For that reason, I tend to turn off even auto capitalizing and auto word correction on my phone. I want to emphasize what I want to emphasize, and structure my sentence as I want, in order to aptly convey my meaning, particularly when it comes to nuances. Also, most emojis are stupid. A few are useful, but if you have to use them to make yourself properly understood, then you need to learn how to better write. Using them as nuance in a statement, or to punctuate a feeling is a great idea, but otherwise, do we really need to return to hieroglyphics? Also, it's a bit difficult to translate into speech... Not going to go on a rant.
I'm all for brevity of thought and speech, but only if it aptly and truly conveys the entirety of the thought. Words, properly harnessed, can paint the most vivid of pictures all their own, and uses the reader's imagination to fit it all together. Man, now I want to go reread so many books. Also, I return to the thought of how much longer writing by hand takes. Looking at even this amount thus far that I have, it sure would have taken a long-ass time (long ass-time, as xkcd would say) to do by hand. I've slowly worked at, and improved upon, my cursive skills, which were practically non-existent all throughout school, but it is neither very fast, nor nearly as compact as my normal, so I don't often do so. I can barely imagine the days, only a few decades gone, when all children wrote cursive, and all essays and assignments were by hand. I hate essays as it is, and I only ever wrote them once, spell checked them, then turned them in. I wouldn't fancy having to rewrite them numerous times. Though t'would be cool to have a practiced hand at cursive. I slaver over calligraphy done well.
And now my brain is empty. Bed time.
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Date: 2019-09-23 11:28 am (UTC)From:The thing about cursive makes me sad, though--and if I'm honest, worry a little. Maybe it's not necessary for the modern age, but when you look at our historical documents, it's very much so! Now you're simply adding one more course that needs to be taken, in order to be effective. Between that and older forms of English practically being another language, the bar of entry is getting high.
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Date: 2019-09-24 11:41 am (UTC)From:As to cursive, man, just look at the declaration of independence and the like. They are gorgeous pieces of work. To be fair though, that was the finished product and likely they tried extra to make it so.