From the W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company, a dowdy-world history of our alphabet and fountain pens: The 26 Old Characters (1947). Dig the young people eagerly opening letters at 17:38.
Thanks, Martha!
Thursday, September 14, 2017
The 26 Old Characters
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Gosh, even though I still write with a gold-tipped fountain pen, so much of this is out-of-date. As a lecturer teaching 3 sections of freshman comp in 1976, I would take 75 papers home every week to grade. I often thought English teachers became experts at deciphering difficult handwriting. Still an English teacher, still a constant grader, I never ever see my students' handwriting.Many of them take notes by typing on a laptop, or snapping a picture of the board with their camera. I write on the blackboard, I write their grades in my gradebook, I'm in danger of growing antique.
I have a friend who drew the line at photographing the blackboard, or whiteboard, or slides, or whatever.
I was reading handwriting till the very end (short in-class writing and exams), but I used spreadsheets for the last ten years or so of teaching. So much easier! But if I could have kept spreadsheets with a fountain pen, I would have. :)
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