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Njord
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| Using cursive is very much a common form of writing, year after year and even in daily life. |
We must live in different worlds then.  This is simply not true in my experience. |
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Big Mac
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Njord wrote: |
| We don't teach for the benefit of parents' vanity. |
You do teach in Korea, don't you?
Isn't everything you do in a hogwan for the parents' vanity? It was in mine anyway. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| Njord wrote: |
Ahh, but do you still remember how to do long division by hand? I think most people learn this in 4th or 5th grade and I bet that most forget before they graduate high school. I hope this does not make all of them uneducated idiots.  |
Of course...how do you forget a thing like that? |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
I cannot believe that on a board primarily for English teachers there is a debate - apparently serious - about the use of joined-up writing.
Ker-iste, I hope nobody's watching. |
My jaw is on the floor as well.
I mean...we're talking about friggin' joined-up writing here or what?
Reminds me of a Steve Bell cartoon on Prince Philip with his intellectual masterpiece 'Joined-Up Writing' I once saw. Or Spitting Image showing Reagan signing his name R-o-n-a-l-d with painful slowness. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Njord wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| Using cursive is very much a common form of writing, year after year and even in daily life. |
We must live in different worlds then. This is simply not true in my experience. |
Yep. Completely different planets I should think. |
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Jamin
Joined: 21 Jun 2005
Location: Daejon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Some people are a little harsh with thier judgements ifsomebody knows how produce cursive writing.
I simply haven't done it since about grade 6. The reason is simply that my writing was difficult to read. I choose to just print to make it easy on everyone. You know what, I have been able to recieve a MA, a BA and a Diploma.
In this day in age it really is more important to teach people keyboarding skills. Cursive writing seems to me to be a little old fashion. Fine, do it if you feel it has some artistic worth. Really, as a communicative tool, it is no longer important to learn. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| In this day in age it really is more important to teach people keyboarding skills. Cursive writing seems to me to be a little old fashion. |
By that same logic, there is no longer any need for a math teacher to know how to subtract 37 from 120 because it is more important to just teach them how to use a calculator. I mean, subtracting on paper or in my head just seems a little old fashioned.
Don't you think that as an "English" teacher, you should know how to write "cursive" English. Isn't it a little embarrassing when students who you are hired to teach, know how to do something simple, and you don't? I have a LOT of students who can write in cursive here.
"Teacher, how do you write a "Z" in cursive?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know." |
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Faron
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
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I always thought the upper case S looked a little odd with cursive. I like to use regular writing(printing or whatever you like to call it) for upper case letters and cursive for lower case.  |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| Stunned. You are simply retarded if you can not write cursive. |
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marlow
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Printing looks really cool on postcards, greeting cards, thank you letters, sympathy cards, etc. Actually, if someone dies and I want to send their family a card, I just do it up on a word processor, and run the card through the printer. Much more professional.  |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| marlow wrote: |
| Printing looks really cool on postcards, greeting cards, thank you letters, sympathy cards, etc. Actually, if someone dies and I want to send their family a card, I just do it up on a word processor, and run the card through the printer. Much more professional. |
yeah...but you're still retarded if you can't write cursive. |
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marcus
Joined: 12 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess the retards will inherit the earth. So much for funny, squiggly writing. |
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Jamin
Joined: 21 Jun 2005
Location: Daejon
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Earlier I made the point that as a communicative device, cursive writing isn't really used anymore.
In fact, I can't even remember the last time I have seen cursive writing used as a communicative tool.
I guess we should brush off those feather pens and start practicing in case a student asks us the appropriate way to hold one of those puppies. Or maybe this weekend I might review how to make ink out of crushed beetles. Obviously I am being sarcastic but my points stands that the cursive alphabet is archaic; just not as archaic as a feather pen.
As an art form, it still is a very attractive way to produce written text. |
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thekingofdisco
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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This is all very surprising!! I'm shocked!! There are teachers here unable to write in cursive form????
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| Jamin wrote: |
Earlier I made the point that as a communicative device, cursive writing isn't really used anymore.
In fact, I can't even remember the last time I have seen cursive writing used as a communicative tool.
I guess we should brush off those feather pens and start practicing in case a student asks us the appropriate way to hold one of those puppies. Or maybe this weekend I might review how to make ink out of crushed beetles. Obviously I am being sarcastic but my points stands that the cursive alphabet is archaic; just not as archaic as a feather pen.
As an art form, it still is a very attractive way to produce written text. |
Ok, but you are still retarded if you cannot write cursive.
Also, as a communicative tool, PLEASE do not tell me that everything you have seen "written" is typed.
Have you never been in the business world? I have freinds who work at microsoft, and they still have PLENTY of handwritten memos circulating...in cursive.
I can not think of a field other than a cashier or fry guy at McDonald's where you wouldn't at least occassionally need to read "cursive." |
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