The More things Change...

[John the Monkey]

The handwriting of the current generation is abominable, writes the complainant.

The cause? New fangled steel pens, according to a 150 year old article decrying the vicissitudes of the then modern technology, found over at the Quo Vadis blog: http://quovadisblog.com/2012/03/07/t...-old-complaint

[Ordinal]

The British Museum has Sumerian tablets in cuneiform bemoaning the move from traditional wooden to trendy stone implements amongst the youth. Probably.

[peterpen53]

Complainant would have been right even if he/she had written this yesterday. The 'handwriting' some people present these days is quite often outright terrible, to use a decent expression. I would wager that two or three generations after us will not know how to write anymore, at least not legibly.

Cheers,
Peter

[Tracy Lee]

<heart sinks>

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[John the Monkey]

Complainant would have been right even if he/she had written this yesterday. The 'handwriting' some people present these days is quite often outright terrible, to use a decent expression. I would wager that two or three generations after us will not know how to write anymore, at least not legibly.

It was ever thus though, surely?

A sample of two, admittedly, but my daughter has wonderful writing, my son seems to be heading for a career in medicine[1]

[1] In the UK, it's a staple of comedy that Doctor's handwriting is illegible - I think that's been the case for as long as I can remember!

[KrazyIvan]

I heard of talks that a new law was being proposed to make doctors write legibly.

[Maja]

The British Museum has Sumerian tablets in cuneiform bemoaning the move from traditional wooden to trendy stone implements amongst the youth. Probably.

Lol!

[peterpen53]

[1] In the UK, it's a staple of comedy that Doctor's handwriting is illegible - I think that's been the case for as long as I can remember!

In the Netherlands that's not only a staple of comedy. I have more than once wondered how it could be possible that my pharmacist handed me the medicine my doctor had indeed prescribed. It can't be because he could read what was on the recipe.
Congratulations on your daughter's writing. Please encourage her to keep it up.

Cheers,
Peter

[Ordinal]

I converted a doctor friend of mine to the use of a Capless Decimo, which she seems to like using with Pelikan Violet. So I may not have contributed to the legibility of notes in the NHS, but at least they'll be an illegible scrawl in purple.