12-10-2010, 01:19 PM
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Yes, we had to use the 'dip-pen' at school with inkwells and lots of blotting paper. The teachers were very tight with it and let you have just a little square. I loved my first set of a fountain pen and propelling pencil too. By the time I was in the 5th year cartridge pens were in.My seven year old grandaughter is learning 'joined up' wiriting at school, she is left handed and is finding this easier than printing.
12-10-2010, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Dancingsky
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My handwriting is much worse now I use the computer for all my correspondence, I never actually write a letter anymore.
12-10-2010, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by dandysmom
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I think handwriting is becoming a lost art, regardless of what instrument you use. When was the last time you sent someone a handwritten letter?
I long for the day when one could reasonably send Christmas greetings to everyone by e-mail instead of cards. So much more environmental, they only get chucked out as soon as Christmas is over anyway. I hate having to write the blessed things, it has always been my task, I can't say receiving them gives me much pleasure either, especially if they come with a letter the length of 'War and Peace' as some do! BAH HUMBUG!
12-10-2010, 05:55 PM
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My Dad is an excellent handwriter and would use nothing only a fountain pen, he can't stand biro's and even at 93 his writing is as steady as a rock, mine's terrible.You are right DM, it is becoming lost to us.
12-10-2010, 06:07 PM
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I agree that writing letters does seem to be dying out, but I still send letters and I like receiving them - I must be old-fashioned.I also still like sending and receiving Christmas cards and the little notes that come with them. I don't think I would feel the same about an e-mailed card. It seems impersonal to me. I do only buy Oxfam cards these days and they don't go to waste at our house as afterwards I always either send them for re-cycling and also cut some suitable ones up and use the pictures for gift tags next year. It not that I'm noble - I'm just a bit thrifty - or maybe mean
12-10-2010, 07:55 PM
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I'm left-handed and I find it nigh on impossible to write with a fountain pen. You are pushing against the nib and the result is a scratchy mess.If I'm really honest, I find writing a bit of a labour even with a biro. Not because I have learning difficulties but simply because I'm left-handed. Writing is geared up to the right hand - script flows left to right for the writer who is pulling the pen, not pushing it.
I know that there are ways round this but it's still hard and laborious.
So, despite my age, I'm no fan of the fountain pen.
12-10-2010, 08:44 PM
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I do enjoy Christmas cards and the occasional Annual update that comes with a few. E-mail is fine for 99% of correspondence, but I do like the colorful cards to decorate the mantel with ... and I recycle them also.
12-10-2010, 09:52 PM
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I always receive a written thank you letter from my grandchildren for their Birthday and Christmas presents, they are 7 and 10 now and it's lovely to see how their writing has progressed over the years into joined up writing. Also it's nice to know that my daughter is carrying on the tradition of sending thank you letters as she did through her childhood.I would really miss not receiving Birthday cards and Christmas cards - a message by email just isn't the same
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