Is Handwriting on the Way Out?

Posted by on Dec 22, 2009 in writing

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.

  • http://www.unboundblogzine.com hagelrat

    I hate had­writ­ing, I used to have to rewrite all my lec­ture notes in the even­ing because the next day i wouldn’t know what the ori­ginal scrawl said.

  • http://ianhocking.com Ian

    Yes, I remem­ber doing the exact same thing myself…apart from the rewrit­ing :-)