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Troy Patterson

How the Ballpoint Pen Changed Handwriting - The Atlantic - 1 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 31 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • I can’t recall the last time I saw students passing actual paper notes in class, but I clearly remember students checking their phones (recently and often).
  • Despite the proliferation of handwriting eulogies, it seems that no one is really arguing against the fact that everyone still writes—we just tend to use unjoined print rather than a fluid Palmerian style, and we use it less often.
  • My experience with fountain pens suggests a new answer. Perhaps it’s not digital technology that hindered my handwriting, but the technology that I was holding as I put pen to paper. Fountain pens want to connect letters. Ballpoint pens need to be convinced to write, need to be pushed into the paper rather than merely touch it.
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  • Sassoon’s analysis of how we’re taught to hold pens makes a much stronger case for the role of the ballpoint in the decline of cursive.
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