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**Why Cursive Writing and Penmanship Is Important**
Jennifer A. Freeman
“_While penmanship is still rigorously taught in many European schools, current American schoolchildren spend more time mastering typing and computer skills than practicing neat handwriting. But traditional handwriting offers unique cognitive benefits that typing simply can’t replicate_”
Word Smarts · Why Cursive Writing and Penmanship Is ImportantPenmanship is a dying art form, but that doesn’t mean handwriting is any less important or useful. Let’s take a look at the history of cursive writing to learn how a skill that was once widespread has since declined.
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#Penmanship #Authors #Writing #Legal #FediLaw #AI
Important for all authors, esp. if #US-based: how to protect your copyright against #AI firms
"*Class Action Lawsuits Cover All Writers Whose Books Were Used *
Legal action is already underway against #Meta, #OpenAI, #Microsoft, #Anthropic, and other AI companies for using pirated books.
You don’t need to be a named plaintiff to benefit or receive damages if you qualify as part of the class;... "
cc @alison
https://authorsguild.org/news/meta-libgen-ai-training-book-heist-what-authors-need-to-know/
The Authors GuildMeta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex […]
Can you read cursive? It's a #superpower the #NationalArchives is looking for.
More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need #transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the #RevolutionaryWar era are #handwritten in #cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of #penmanship
#history
USA TODAY · Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
Lázaro Cárdenas was president of Mexico from 1934-1940. History education in the U.S. pays far more attention to Europe than to Mexico and Canada, but in short: for his nationalization of the petroleum industry alone, he's one of the most important figures in North America of the past century.
Anyway. Point is he joined the Mexican Revolution at age 15 and first got promoted for having excellent penmanship!
ok #handlettering #penmanship #calligraphy people i bring u a fun challenge: lefty slogans in handlettering.
tags i am using so far: #handleftering #classCalligraphy #letteringPraxis
Work by Francis B. Courtney (1867–1952). These pieces are part of the newly digitized collection of William C. Henning, Associate Editor of "American Penman," to which Courtney was a frequent contributor: https://iampeth.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=765903&module_id=689947 IAMPETH members get full access to the images.
Does anyone have recommendations about #handwriting or #penmanship - books, apps, videos? I’m not talking about #calligraphy per se but calligraphers might have some recommendations for beginners that could help me. The goal is legible cursive - fast, or at least not painfully slow, but still legible even if I’m concentrating on what I’m thinking instead of the mechanics of writing. Currently my handwriting looks quite childish unless I write in block capitals :(
Spencerian Standard Hand and Brandt's Duployan
As a writer, I prefer to write by hand, and I have taught myself to write like they did in the Victorian age. But shorthand is faster and more efficient. Brandt's Duployan is a cool shorthand! #shorthand #penmanship #amwriting
My favorite rabbit hole is the shorthand Reddit community - at /r/shorthand - it's lovely to hang out with fellow shorthand geeks. This is my QOTW post there:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/comments/15z19d9/qotw_2023w34_brandts_duployan/
On Public Books today, an article by Sonja Drimmer, commissioned by @bookish, reviewing "Handwriting in Early America: A Media History", edited by Mark Alan Mattes:
https://www.publicbooks.org/slanting-the-history-of-handwriting/
[If Dr. Drimmer is on the Fediverse, please let me know and I can edit in her handle!]
Public BooksSlanting the History of Handwriting - Public BooksWhatever writing is today, it is not self-evident.
#Question: do you lament the loss of skills associated with #penmanship and #handwriting across wide sections of the general populace? #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writers @writingcommunity @writers
My Spencerian penmanship is overdue some practise & I’m fed up of copying crap from flyers & magazines. Give me a few choice words and/or sentences to write out & I’ll post the results here later, if I get any! #calligraphy #handwriting #penmanship #lettering
