Thisn“holiday” was started in 1977 by people who manufacture pens andnpencils—people who don’t want the enormous popularity of textingnand e-mail to run them entirely out of business. They made a plea fornpeople to write letters to one another on, you know, paper. They saidnthat others would find notes of thanks and congratulations, wishesnfor birthdays and anniversaries, and newsy catch-ups all the morenspecial if they were handwritten. Using pencils and pens.
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nPleasenkeep buying our product, basically.
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nArenthey right?
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nActually,nI have to admit that a handwritten note delivered in person or bynmail is so darn UNUSUAL, these days, it does feel special to me. Hownabout to you?
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nLegibilitynand Calligraphy
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nItnis not, in my mind, “important” to learn to write cursivenproperly, legibly and quickly. Even in the past, when there weren’tnmany alternatives to handwritten messages, and when people practicedntheir handwriting a lot, cursive writing is not super easy to read.nEven when I was growing up (oh, soooo long ago), it was generallyneasier to read printing—and people can print just about as quicklynas they can write in cursive.
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n(Ofncourse, it IS important to develop one bit of cursive, and that isnyour signature. Some people even want others to be able to decipherntheir signature.)
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Butneven though I don’t think it is important to write cursive, it can benfun to learn and use it! I find it especially fun to get a goodncalligraphy pen—perhaps a felt-tipped marker with the rightn“chisel” shape—and try out a bunch of beautiful scripts. Checknout this and this other articles fornlessons and some inspiration.
Butneven though I don’t think it is important to write cursive, it can benfun to learn and use it! I find it especially fun to get a goodncalligraphy pen—perhaps a felt-tipped marker with the rightn“chisel” shape—and try out a bunch of beautiful scripts. Checknout this and this other articles fornlessons and some inspiration.n
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nWritento your grandma!
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n Learnn about handwriting analysis here.
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n Getn a small notebook and start collecting autographs—signatures—ofn everyone you meet. It might be interesting to analyze theirn handwriting (see above)–or you could just hang onto the book hopingn one of your friends becomes famous!
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n Getn a blank book and use your most special calligraphy to copyn meaningful quotes or short poems on its pages.
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| Many different script fonts are available on the computer! |
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nAlsonon this date:
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nAnniversarynof the partitioning of Poland
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nAnniversarynof the coldest temperature in the U.S.
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