''The other night I was walking through a huge crowd at a restaurant in the meat packing district and for some reason I was whispering to myself, "Don't fall, don't fall."
It's like I could feel it coming or something... and what do you know, within
one step of being back at my table, I fell flat on my ass! The worst part
is that the only people who saw it were my boyfriend and his best friend....the worst people I could think of to see it happen!''
If I had a pound for every time I experienced one of these '*horrific* moments - I would be employing people to write this blog for me.
...Now I have been preoccupied recently with work and socialising - yes i do have a real life beyond the boring one i relay out on cyber world - with friends, old and new...on tv and off...*coughthecity&uglybettycough*
Alas, I have also found out that myself and others are to return to the headlining festival of the year to put on a show for kids 3rd year running. I will have to start putting my super brain in to full gear and begin to pen this project.
I have also had riveting (or so she thinks) conversations with a very very argumentative yet very good friend - her name, in consideration for her personal life, shall be Mavis Bean.
Mavis Bean had put it to me, this week, that: in a decade or so - writing long hand shall be all but extinct .
Me: Oh Mavis, Mavis, Mavis Bean - you are being ridiculous - for where dost thou protest this ...information...from?
Mavis Bean: The Daily TelegRUBBISH.
Me: Exactly. *
The point being, I disagree. I mean will everyone be in a posistion to afford not learning the basis of cursive writing? I think impovorished countries in particular are not going to be advancing so forseeably.
This "primitive" skill will never become useless, its faster and tapping away on a machine, although useful in many cases is not always conducive - say many writers like to pen ideas in bed - now i know with current economic climates - technology = electricity bills. I personally feel that writing cursive is so much faster.
But Mavis did not say it will be extinct as so much as it will be second/third or more likely fourth hand as a skill of communication. I can't argue against this fact, because as my brother said:
"you can't stop the human advancement - soon we will be using
telepathic modes that will disband machines as well." daniel
You cant stop the advancement of the human race - Science shows Ape men had Drawings, Religion uses the Egyptians
essentially this evolved in to the Greek combination of using images to form the first Alphabet: words and meanings which led to the pioneering Romans and their latin conquer of writing which thus developed in to the shakespearian heavy English language we know today. All of these used different impliments - chalk, paint, quills and ink, lead...now computers...
Text speak is now used more commonly than what we know to be the 'right' form of language. Yet it has developed rapidly across generations, and with no signs of beign fad.
So is the dying out of writing with pen and paper so wrong or is this the natural order of human evolution?
*this is a watered version of how the conversation went.
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