An addendum I didn't have space to fit into a 250-word essay: I took a year of Russian in college, and so learned cursive Cyrillic. One Russian letter that was undergoing a shift was a lower-case "d," which formerly looked like a lower-case Greek delta (∂) but was evolving to look like a lower-case English "g." I persisted in writing the old-style ∂ just because I liked the way it looked and it was more fun to draw, until one day a native-Russian-speaking T.A. told me I wrote like her old grandma. Sometimes progress takes the fun out of everything.
We played school a lot when we were little, so I learned to print on the blackboard like a teacher in nice legible letters. But I have boxes of stuff written in cursive and I was once legible in that as well. No more. When I write on paper, first I have to find paper, and then find a pen, and then find a pen that still works. I went first to typing in college and since then to word processors. But I do remember Stan Freburg:
An addendum I didn't have space to fit into a 250-word essay: I took a year of Russian in college, and so learned cursive Cyrillic. One Russian letter that was undergoing a shift was a lower-case "d," which formerly looked like a lower-case Greek delta (∂) but was evolving to look like a lower-case English "g." I persisted in writing the old-style ∂ just because I liked the way it looked and it was more fun to draw, until one day a native-Russian-speaking T.A. told me I wrote like her old grandma. Sometimes progress takes the fun out of everything.
We played school a lot when we were little, so I learned to print on the blackboard like a teacher in nice legible letters. But I have boxes of stuff written in cursive and I was once legible in that as well. No more. When I write on paper, first I have to find paper, and then find a pen, and then find a pen that still works. I went first to typing in college and since then to word processors. But I do remember Stan Freburg:
Franklin: The purfuit of happineff?
Jefferson: That's "pursuit of happiness."
Franklin: Well, all your S's look like F's.
Jefferson: It's very "in."
Franklin: Oh, well, if it's "in" ...
I love it, Mike. Thanks!