Thread: We got a letter yesterday

Originally Posted by 87County

I guess your school was getting ready for the digital age (without realising it)

The only thing digital when I went to school was your finger

We were the guinea pigs for a form of Modified Cursive handwriting in the early seventies.
The stupid part of the style of modified cursive used on us is that half of the letters don't join properly, it was printing that sort of joined....sometimes.

None of my friends have decent writing either, only those whose parents took it upon themselves to make their children write script properly have nice or even legible running writing.

Most of it is my fault, I'm just too impatient to form words properly when I write, I just want to get it on the note, cheque or whatever and get on with it (whatever 'it' is )

This is part of an old column from the Canberra Times dated 28 Jun, 2003.

Nearly all of the 900 or so letters to the editor each week come in (typed) by e-mail. We do not discriminate against manuscript letters, but these amount to less than 5 per cent.
Mercifully, a high proportion of these are written by older folk and can thus be read fairly easily. The block letters and running writing of young children can also be read (usually) but perhaps 30 per cent of handwritten letters simply cannot be completely deciphered. Those who switched children from copperplate to modified cursive handwriting in the 1950s have a lot to answer for - the latter, as attention to writing deteriorates, comes quickly to resemble an electrocardiogram.

Originally Posted by rick130

Except no one can understand my handwriting/scrawl.

I knew I should have seen a GP

Might have helped but unlikely

sounds like we might be of a similar age as my writing is poor chicken scratchings