How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
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Bingo!
Perhaps it’s not digital technology that hindered my handwriting, but the technology that I was holding as I put pen to paper. Fountain pens want to connect letters. Ballpoint pens need to be convinced to write, need to be pushed into the paper rather than merely touch it.
Wow, that is so well said!
7:36 PM Aug 29 2015