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NutmegCT said:
OK Steve - I'll have it transferred from my secret Swiss bank account.

Oh c'mon ... Zelle accounts were lost since last April? Who'd want to use systems like that - and so many others?
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Apparently it was just a local issue and didn't affect all customers.
Been a member of that credit union for over 40 years.
Hardly ever have any issues.
 
NutmegCT said:
Larry - a few years ago at Sturbridge, I had two high school students as interns. I wrote them a note listing what varieties of corn to plant. Their response:

"We don't learn that old fashioned writing any more."

Maybe if I'd texted it ...
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School started this week, and I had a student say she didn't know how to read cursive. I told her that there's no time like the present to learn.
 
waltesefalcon said:
School started this week, and I had a student say she didn't know how to read cursive. I told her that there's no time like the present to learn.
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Bring back the Palmer Method.
My penmanship was criticized all my life, so I started printing everything.
 
equiprx said:
Bring back the Palmer Method.
My penmanship was criticized all my life, so I started printing everything.
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Despite having formal training in cursive during grade school, my cursive had never been good, nor consistent. Try as I might, my writing is horrible.
 
Palmer!

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equiprx said:
Bring back the Palmer Method.
My penmanship was criticized all my life, so I started printing everything.
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Man, the Palmer method has not been utilized in a long time. I learned using the D'Nealian method.

As an adult the only time I have printed much at all was when I was in engineering school, and had to print everything.
 
I started college before the D'Nealian method was released. But sometimes wish I'd learned Spencerian cursive while in elementary school.

Thanks to the blood, sweat, and tears of the Allies in WW2, we didn't end up having to learn Sutterlin or Kurrent (early 20th century) German handwriting.

Some in Germany in the 1930s and early '40s felt it was the new "national" script.

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yikes
 
Cursive here is limited to check writing. A couple times a year.

Lettering is what I use for everything else.
 
If the young folks aren't learning cursive, how will they read the letters, etc., of their parents and grandparents?
 
Wonder if this guy's kids and grandkids can read his letter -

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Tom and I likely have a little different perspective on cursive since we are historians. The ability to read cursive is a requisite skill in our profession. Without a knowledge of cursive how can anyone read the letters of Lincoln, Franklin, or any other historical figure?
 
waltesefalcon said:
Man, the Palmer method has not been utilized in a long time. I learned using the D'Nealian method.

As an adult the only time I have printed much at all was when I was in engineering school, and had to print everything.
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You just reminded me of how I made the switch to printing.
The only high school course I paid any attention to was Mechanical Drawing.
 
I have no idea what the formal name is for the cursive I learned in grade school - I only know that I stink at it.
 
A plus is that parents can write "secret" notes to each other
that the kids can't read.
 
Doug - remember these?

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We had them across the wall above the chalkboard at the front of the classroom - at Bluebonnet Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas.
 
NutmegCT said:
Doug - remember these?

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We had them across the wall above the chalkboard at the front of the classroom - at Bluebonnet Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Same ones at St. Malachy in Brooklyn NY from 1957 to 1965.
Worst years of my life.
 
equiprx said:
Same ones at St. Malachy in Brooklyn NY from 1957 to 1965.
Worst years of my life.
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And I grew up in the Bronx until about 11 years old. I would never trade those years.
 
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