"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[Just Tom.]

Tom, a polite, warm, legible, and well-written post!
(But I think you intended to post it in the Totin' Today thread, maybe?? }

- GT

Thanks, Gary!
I did consider posting it there as well, yes, but it was more of a joke based on the responses I got to a post I made here in the “off-topic” thread:

It seems that a fascination with knives runs in the family. Found in a 1925 letter from my grandfather to his sister, recounting his sea voyage to Japan and China in 1925:


He was just 18 at the time.

Edit:
It seems the tradition of American kids not being able to resist cool-looking Japanese blades predates the mall ninja by at least 55 years…

I propose to make the hand-written note the required format for all posts in the Traditional sub-forum. A whole generation of seniors is losing its command of written language because they can’t stay off their dang phones. Maybe forcing them to actually write with a pen sometimes will help combat this dangerous slide into illiteracy .

 

[Headwinds]

I propose to make the hand-written note the required format for all posts in the Traditional sub-forum. A whole generation of seniors is losing its command of written language because they can’t stay off their dang phones. Maybe forcing them to actually write with a pen sometimes will help combat this dangerous slide into illiteracy .

I’m 81 years old and I haven’t lost the ability to write cursive - my cursive has always been lousy. Looking at something I wrote at the age of twelve is embarrasing. Then four years of taking three or four pages of notes per hour in college finished off any trace of proper cursive - it morphed into a sort of stylized printing. Funny thing is - my older brother could write beautiful cursive that looked like calligraphy. Maybe he siphoned off the cursive gene before I came along.

 

[mitch13]

Nicely done!
It is becoming a lost art my kids have trouble reading it.
I did hand write our wedding invitations, that took awhile.

 

[Rufus1949]

In certain school systems, there is a push for the return of cursive instruction. It seems many states do not require it. I believe at last count only 25 have it as an integral part of the curriculum.
Sad!

 

[waynorth]

Wonderful, Tom!!!

 

[Just Tom.]

my cursive has always been lousy

Mine too. I struggled to make my post above legible, and actually scrapped a first draft . I recall always getting bad grades in handwriting at school.

If it wasn’t for writing checks, I would have lost the ability to write cursive completely. Years of working in a technical field made my default handwriting all-capitals block letters.

 

[Headwinds]

In certain school systems, there is a push for the return of cursive instruction. It seems many states do not require it. I believe at last count only 25 have it as an integral part of the curriculum.
Sad!

At least I can still read it - I read some time ago about a Harvard history prof who tried to share some Civil War era manuscripts with her class and discovered that many of the students couldn't read them. Some compared it to trying to read Egyptian hieroglyphics.