KnightTemplar5150

First they came for the semi-colon, but I said nothing because its usage was only covered in style manuals. Then they came for the Oxford commas, but I said nothing because it was goverened by arbitrary rules. Then they came for small words and I said nothing because it was faster to text the numeral two than writing out "to." And then they came for the rest of the punctuation - but here, we resist. Here, we look the youth of our nation in the eye and tell them once and for all in words they understand, "Respect your language or cash me ousside how bow dat?" 

 

"Squire! An extra leg of lamb for KnightsTemplar5150!"

I'm in the same boat as MC with writing since drafting classes over 45 years ago.

Whatever happened to readin', 'ritting, and 'rithmatic like we had when we went through the old schoolhouse?  Guess that is a long bygone era, to our detriment.

Modelcrazy ;

I am ashamed of you ! To not use cursive ? What the heck is the matter with you ? I keep telling folks this . You may print well . BUT , printing can be copied a whole lot easier than Cursive . Besides if you have six retired draftsmen/women , And one commits a crime regarding a ransom note , whom or who , do you arrest ?

 Now that said , I always get complements on my cursive signature . Why ? Well , it sets me apart . Plus  , it's a definite marker of who I am . The letters flow with a certain mix of surety and self confidence . Who , Me ? That's what they say . Plus this . When you use cursive it marks you as you , not some jamoke down the road .

 This is the final form of self identification . It's like this , which do you want ? A blood drop on a contract to prove it's you ? Or a nice flowing group of letters that says , Hey look , this is me ! Posted by , who else  ? ? ?  Tanker-Builder  !

Hmmm, what brought this on?  Very concise and accurate writing Doog.

By the way, I haven't written in cursive since I attended two years of drafting classes... before CAD.

Bish

 

 

Gamera

 

Bish

Guilty as charged.

 

 

 

 

Yeap, I didn't even notice my comment about your T54 turret was a question instead of a statement till you added question marks to your quote of my post. 

Frankly these days I'm lucky to get my pants on with the zipper in the front and my shoes on the right feet when I get up much less proper grammer, punctuation, and sentence structure. 

 

 

 

 

Seems like we are both in the naughty corner

 

As long as we're not stuffed in the 'cooler' with a certain grumpy German Field Marshal. 

Gamera

 

Bish

Guilty as charged.

 

 

 

 

Yeap, I didn't even notice my comment about your T54 turret was a question instead of a statement till you added question marks to your quote of my post. 

Frankly these days I'm lucky to get my pants on with the zipper in the front and my shoes on the right feet when I get up much less proper grammer, punctuation, and sentence structure. 

 

Seems like we are both in the naughty corner

Bish

Guilty as charged.

 

Yeap, I didn't even notice my comment about your T54 turret was a question instead of a statement till you added question marks to your quote of my post. 

Frankly these days I'm lucky to get my pants on with the zipper in the front and my shoes on the right feet when I get up much less proper grammer, punctuation, and sentence structure. 

Guilty as charged.

Sad state of affairs of our future generations. Heck, even schools nowadays don't even teach cursive writing, let alone do homework in cursive writing. I blame our government sticking their noses in how teachers should teach. As you all know, I am a stauch hater of Common CORE. This is the biggest waste of time the government has implimented. I firmly believe our government has NO business to dictate how teachers should teach our kids. Let the teachers teach the way they know best without big government watching - the old-fashioned way.

....And the ability to read and/or write in cursive.

First they came for the semi-colon, but I said nothing because its usage was only covered in style manuals. Then they came for the Oxford commas, but I said nothing because it was goverened by arbitrary rules. Then they came for small words and I said nothing because it was faster to text the numeral two than writing out "to." And then they came for the rest of the punctuation - but here, we resist. Here, we look the youth of our nation in the eye and tell them once and for all in words they understand, "Respect your language or cash me ousside how bow dat?"