{"id":829,"date":"2018-10-26T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:32:28","slug":"a-reader-asks-did-your-hand-writing-go-for-a-toss-after-using-electronic-keyboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/26\/a-reader-asks-did-your-hand-writing-go-for-a-toss-after-using-electronic-keyboards\/","title":{"rendered":"A reader asks: Did your hand writing go for a toss after using electronic keyboards?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q: Did your hand writing go for a toss after using electronic keyboards?<\/strong> (via Quora)<\/small><\/p>\n

A: Well, any skill that\u2019s not regularly practiced will atrophy. But in my case, there was little to lose; and I can’t blame keyboards!<\/strong><\/p>\n

My handwriting was hard for others to read from grade school on. Formal penmanship was too slow; I used a fast scrawl that I could read, but not so much others.<\/p>\n

As an adult, I deliberately made my handwriting even worse after I discovered several people trying to read my notes over my shoulder during business meetings. Small, cramped, handwriting peppered with many abbreviations prevented these lookers-on from deciphering my stuff.<\/p>\n

If I returned to my notes later, I could transcribe them or clean them up. If I waited too long (so that I forgot the context and gist) even I was sometimes unable to read my own writing.<\/p>\n

Thank goodness for keyboards, or you wouldn\u2019t be able to read this answer!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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