Writing is long gone!!!
By rubired
@rubired (78)
United States
July 21, 2008 10:51pm CST
As days go by, I've seen how little improvement we've made when it comes to writing. Instead of giving a pencil or a pen to children, they're starting to give them the lap top at school! Many people have forgotten how to even write cursive. Way back, we've had so many languages. Hieroglyphics, for example. But where is it now? we've buried it as the years went by, and now we want to excavate it again. Or even our own language! How many people today can barely speak and write English, or other, properly? I mean, we don't all speak it perfectly, but the words we used a couple of years ago are long gone, and have been replaced with others. So, tell me, do you possibly think that sooner than later, our writing, and our vocabulary will dissolve just like others?
2 responses
@gingisnapz (738)
• United States
22 Jul 08
I have noticed that as well. What has happened to good old handwriting? I mean, I remember being in school and having to write cursive on those dotted lines. However, I am a freelance writer and that is how I make a living. Ninety-eight percent of what I write is done on a computer. I graduated high school ten years ago when computer usage was becoming more and more common. I am thankful that I learned what I did and was able to enter college with that experience. Nevertheless, we still submitted a lot of handwritten work. The only time we submitted anything written via a computer was when we wrote research papers or the teacher specified otherwise. I understand now that children are submitting more of their work straight from their home printer than they did ten years ago and it is causing a completely different language to emerge. It is getting to the point that anyone who doesn't know this "computer speak" is the outcast and causes issues in social communities. Instead of writing something out, both children and adults are resorting to these "shortcuts." Before we know it, we're going to have large hordes of people saying "LOL" in the middle of a face-to-face conversation. I use LOL quite often myself, but when kids start handwriting things like "How R U" on their research papers, that's going to be an issue.
@rubired (78)
• United States
22 Jul 08
Yes, exactly. I mean, there's nothing wrong with using the computer. It's a great source of information and for work itself. But I think they should teach children the way they taught a few years ago. Like you said, in those papers, and teach them how to write effectively, rather than turning to the computer right away. The computer will eventually be used years later by the children, but it shouldn't be the first option for them. The pencil should! =)
@nishdan01 (3051)
• Singapore
22 Jul 08
Writing has been replaced by computers. But that does not mean that the language we once used is all gone. It may be gone because children are not reading like olden days and increasing the vocabulary. That has nothing to do with computers. May be their handwriting is bad as they seldom write with hands. I remember how painful it is to write with hands these days for half an hour compared to my college days 7-8 years ago when I wrote with hands, the entire 3 hour exam.
