Re: [LM_NET] Manuscript suffering too

[Tracey Luehrs <mimla@CHARTER.NET>]

I don't know if this discussion has been going on for a while--life's been
hectic lately and I haven't been following too closely.  But I wanted to
mention that this is by no means a contemporary issue.  

Twenty-two years ago I was a first-year teacher in a small private school,
with a school board that visited our classrooms regularly.  I was teaching
cursive to my second-graders, and we would always stand up and "write" huge
letters in the air.  Two school board members were visiting my class when I
taught "f."  As we all stood up to write lower-case cursive "f", I reminded
my class that the lower part of the letter went forward and that sometimes
people forgot and made it go backward.

After class, one of the school board members confessed--to the
principal--that he had been writing that letter wrong all his life, and that
old dogs really could learn new tricks!

Tracey Luehrs
MLIS St Catherine
St Paul MN
mimla@charter.net


Subject: [LM_NET] Manuscript suffering too

I went by a nice local nursery this afternoon to buy my dad a gift
certificate for his birthday. The cashier, a middle class  teenager,
printed on the
gift certificate "fifty" and  made her two "f"s going the backwards.

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