Comments for Brad's Fresh Produce Stand http://www.malapropped.com/leak A Heapin' Dose of Linguistic Lovin' Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Watch Out Cursive – The Future’s Wondering Why You’re Still Here by Barbara http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Barbara Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:11 +0000 http://www.palmansworld.com/news/2007/%month%/08/and-yet-another/#comment-79 All valid comments. As an elementary teacher (now substitute), I have watched the transition to computers with resignation, and kept right up with it. I agree that, as long as there are people living who write in cursive, the better to know how to read it. Many people get into genealogy and find original documents from their past. What a horrible loss to then be unable to read them. I have letters from my great-great grandfather from the Civil War; and French letters from my great-grandmother written from France. Cursive is a discipline I wouldn't want to be without. As to the writing of it, what concerns me most is where signatures are required. Cursive has always been harder to copy than printing according to handwriting analysts. With the age of computers taking over (and again, technology changes the software so quickly) cursive signatures can remain constant, for purposes of securing legal documents. I always tell my students that if they don't continue to doodle with their signatures after they learn cursive, their driver's license signature will eternally look like a third grader's! That gets them going. One should have their final signature by age 16, (14 in some cases) so forget calligraphy and cursive in college. All valid comments. As an elementary teacher (now substitute), I have watched the transition to computers with resignation, and kept right up with it. I agree that, as long as there are people living who write in cursive, the better to know how to read it. Many people get into genealogy and find original documents from their past. What a horrible loss to then be unable to read them. I have letters from my great-great grandfather from the Civil War; and French letters from my great-grandmother written from France. Cursive is a discipline I wouldn’t want to be without. As to the writing of it, what concerns me most is where signatures are required. Cursive has always been harder to copy than printing according to handwriting analysts. With the age of computers taking over (and again, technology changes the software so quickly) cursive signatures can remain constant, for purposes of securing legal documents. I always tell my students that if they don’t continue to doodle with their signatures after they learn cursive, their driver’s license signature will eternally look like a third grader’s! That gets them going. One should have their final signature by age 16, (14 in some cases) so forget calligraphy and cursive in college.

]]> Comment on Watch Out Cursive – The Future’s Wondering Why You’re Still Here by Kate Gladstone http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Kate Gladstone Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:14:04 +0000 http://www.palmansworld.com/news/2007/%month%/08/and-yet-another/#comment-47 Handwriting will probably matter for a long, long time (at least as long as computers exist and can lose their power in hurricanes ... )<br>Research shows, however, that the fastest, clearest handwriters avoid cursive. They join some, not all, of the letters -- making just the easiest joins, and skipping the rest -- and use print-like rather than cursive-style forms for those letters that "disagree" between printing and cursive.<br><br>Since learning to read cursive takes an hour or less (I've taught five-year-olds to do it), and learning to write cursive takes a year or more, I do recommend that students learn how to read cursive for the sake of those who still write in cursive. <br>But why require students to write in a style that the fastest and clearest handwriters avoid?<br><br>Kate Gladstone<br>handwriting instruction and remediation specialist<br>Founder, Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works <br>Director, the World Handwriting Contest<br><a href="http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com">http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com</a> Handwriting will probably matter for a long, long time (at least as long as computers exist and can lose their power in hurricanes … )
Research shows, however, that the fastest, clearest handwriters avoid cursive. They join some, not all, of the letters — making just the easiest joins, and skipping the rest — and use print-like rather than cursive-style forms for those letters that “disagree” between printing and cursive.

Since learning to read cursive takes an hour or less (I've taught five-year-olds to do it), and learning to write cursive takes a year or more, I do recommend that students learn how to read cursive for the sake of those who still write in cursive.
But why require students to write in a style that the fastest and clearest handwriters avoid?

Kate Gladstone
handwriting instruction and remediation specialist
Founder, Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works
Director, the World Handwriting Contest
http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com

]]> Comment on Watch Out Cursive – The Future’s Wondering Why You’re Still Here by Scade http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/watch-out-cursive/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Scade Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:36:13 +0000 http://www.palmansworld.com/news/2007/%month%/08/and-yet-another/#comment-44 Hmmm, well written column! but i hate to say i didn't finish it because it was too long for my attention span. ;)<br>Anyways, first thing first, i don't write cursive! i and i personally think that the cursive that most people write and the cursive that is drilled into ones head at the tender grade of 3 is rubbish. why? because when you become a bread winning adult, you'll still write cursive as a third grader.<br><br>cursive is something that should be learned in college or high school as "an art" subject.<br>my advice, learn calligraphy, english letter script-writing AND cursive. Combine these together and knock the socks off anyone, be it employer, girlfriend or client, that's what I am doing and it works, trust me Hmmm, well written column! but i hate to say i didn’t finish it because it was too long for my attention span. ;)
Anyways, first thing first, i don’t write cursive! i and i personally think that the cursive that most people write and the cursive that is drilled into ones head at the tender grade of 3 is rubbish. why? because when you become a bread winning adult, you’ll still write cursive as a third grader.

cursive is something that should be learned in college or high school as “an art” subject.
my advice, learn calligraphy, english letter script-writing AND cursive. Combine these together and knock the socks off anyone, be it employer, girlfriend or client, that’s what I am doing and it works, trust me

]]> Comment on Color Wars (Retrospective Analysis) by BB http://www.malapropped.com/leak/cultura/color-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-46 BB Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:01:13 +0000 http://www.malapropped.com/leak/?p=46#comment-46 Anything for school spirit, as I always say. It's not like ONE rainforest gone is really gonna do that much trouble, let's be serious. Our school doesn't have ten reams of paper sitting around so they can gather dust. Anything for school spirit, as I always say. It's not like ONE rainforest gone is really gonna do that much trouble, let's be serious. Our school doesn't have ten reams of paper sitting around so they can gather dust.

]]> Comment on Color Wars (Retrospective Analysis) by Benjamin http://www.malapropped.com/leak/cultura/color-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Benjamin Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:20:28 +0000 http://www.malapropped.com/leak/?p=46#comment-45 I decided to read your blog. It is nice.<br><br>I personally think the mastermind who decided that we needed to do Color Wars has a grudge against the environment. I personally cleaned up after the wonderful and enormous display of school spirit and I find myself with an enormous stack of not-so-perfectly-good-any-more printer paper. Thanks to Color Wars and the fact that I decided to not throw away 500 sheets of completely blank printer paper that now is just crumpled up enough that I can't print anything on it, I have to think of 500 new animals to draw on my 500 sheets of paper. Also, the enormous amount of waste it generated was unforgivable in an age where we are trying to cope with an environment that we are ever-changing for the worse because we have no other choice given the economic and human consequences of failing to develop further. But, you know, rich people need their school spirit, thats one thing that noone in the world can deny. Probably because Adam Weindling paid them 20$ to shut up. I decided to read your blog. It is nice.

I personally think the mastermind who decided that we needed to do Color Wars has a grudge against the environment. I personally cleaned up after the wonderful and enormous display of school spirit and I find myself with an enormous stack of not-so-perfectly-good-any-more printer paper. Thanks to Color Wars and the fact that I decided to not throw away 500 sheets of completely blank printer paper that now is just crumpled up enough that I can't print anything on it, I have to think of 500 new animals to draw on my 500 sheets of paper. Also, the enormous amount of waste it generated was unforgivable in an age where we are trying to cope with an environment that we are ever-changing for the worse because we have no other choice given the economic and human consequences of failing to develop further. But, you know, rich people need their school spirit, thats one thing that noone in the world can deny. Probably because Adam Weindling paid them 20$ to shut up.

]]> Comment on Standardized Kids by Garrett http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/standardized-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Garrett Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:48:30 +0000 http://www.malapropped.com/leak/academia/standardized-kids/#comment-9 How do you have this much time to write? go cut cards! How do you have this much time to write? go cut cards!

]]> Comment on Silence of the Chefs by PETER http://www.malapropped.com/leak/asides/silence-of-the-chefs/comment-page-1/#comment-8 PETER Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:14:31 +0000 http://www.malapropped.com/leak/asides/silence-of-the-chefs/#comment-8 I am still laughing at that comment I am still laughing at that comment

]]> Comment on Hip-Hop, Parades, Football, and Grinding – Spirit Week in Review by Brad Bolman http://www.malapropped.com/leak/cultura/hip-hop-parades-football-and-grinding-spirit-week-in-review/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Brad Bolman Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:45:51 +0000 http://www.malapropped.com/leak/cultura/hip-hop-parades-football-and-grinding-spirit-week-in-review/#comment-7 Working all day making Nikes has to go a long way in toning those muscles. Working all day making Nikes has to go a long way in toning those muscles.

]]> Comment on Hip-Hop, Parades, Football, and Grinding – Spirit Week in Review by John Graves Adams http://www.malapropped.com/leak/cultura/hip-hop-parades-football-and-grinding-spirit-week-in-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6 John Graves Adams Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:45:29 +0000 http://www.malapropped.com/leak/cultura/hip-hop-parades-football-and-grinding-spirit-week-in-review/#comment-6 aaahhh sheeyi mayne dassome bullshit right dere. seriously, i'm way more toned than an asian migrant worker. that was hurtful. aaahhh sheeyi mayne dassome bullshit right dere.

seriously, i’m way more toned than an asian migrant worker. that was hurtful.

]]> Comment on Silence of the Chefs by Brad Bolman http://www.malapropped.com/leak/asides/silence-of-the-chefs/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Brad Bolman Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:55:13 +0000 http://www.malapropped.com/leak/asides/silence-of-the-chefs/#comment-4 there's that YIG spirit. there’s that YIG spirit.

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