Comment by ourmandave
6 months ago
Overheard a bank teller the other day saying they're teaching cursive in school again. And she makes her kids hand write thank notes for b'day gifts.
Back In My Day we did cuneiform on stone tablets, and were grateful. Postage was a lot less back then too.
Cuneiform? Bah, fancy-pants! Soot from torches onto the stone walls of our cave was good enough for us, shoulda been good enough for you too.
Back in my day we didn't bother with this new fangled "writing" nonsense, we just remembered things.
This is a false equivalence. One is a tedious and deprecated way of writing, the other is a complete dependence in technology. Imagine if the power goes down. The kids won't be able to write anymore.
A typewriter wouldn't need power.
Okay great. One in 10.000 that has a typewriter will be able to write.
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