Dec 22
20092
commentsIs Handwriting on the Way Out?
I do hope so. Can’t bloody stand the stuff, particularly the cursive.
Anne Trubek:
Proclaiming the virtuousness of one way of forming a “j” over others is a trope that occurs throughout handwriting’s history. For instance, early Christians jettisoned Roman scripts they deemed decadent and pagan. In their scriptoria, monks developed Uncial to replace Roman scripts. An internecine battle ensued when Irish monks developed a variation on Uncial that traditionalists deemed an upstart, quasi-heretical script.
Via Miller-McCune.
