Immediately following on my joy-of-handwriting blog piece, I ran across this fascinating story about handwriting skills in China being lost. I actually remember predicting this decades ago when I saw Japanese people bashing in their language on

[timbray@cosocial.ca]

Immediately following on my joy-of-handwriting blog piece, I ran across this fascinating story about handwriting skills in China being lost. I actually remember predicting this decades ago when I saw Japanese people bashing in their language on what was then called a PDA.
https://globalchinapulse.net/character-amnesia-in-china/

Tim Bray (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images On penmanship and cursiveness, with side-trips into analog culture, LLMs, and insomnia: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/10/18/Penmanship

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[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@timbray wow. Covid damaged my visual recall ... I'm guess I'm lucky that I don't operate in a pictographic language!