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The rights and wrongs of writing

Altagracia G. Smith by Altagracia G. Smith
March 1, 2023
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The rights and wrongs of writing

Now anyone who has studied this column through the years would possibly proclaim “it’s about time he realized that” and wish me well on my new endeavors of macrame and flower arranging. And of direction, there’s that kindly simple faculty teacher who used to ship my columns returned to me in the mail after she had marked them up with so much purple ink it looked like present-day art.

Sometimes it became punctuation; on occasion, it changed into spelling, and frequently it became slang or colloquial language that she deemed inappropriate. However, it always changed into humbling. I swear she didn’t get my conversational fashion of writing, and I assume she enjoyed this hobby of hers (you’re welcome); however, she would clearly trust the outlet sentence of this column.

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However, whether this column offers something of cost on a weekly foundation can be up for debate; that’s not what I’m speakme about. I’m referring to the fact that I can’t bodily write a sentence. At least not a different people, or even machines, can read. Now you might say in this age of computers and phones and capsules and different devices, it doesn’t surely count the number that tons anymore. In truth, I marvel if they even train cursive writing in schools anymore; who are they writing by way of hand anyway? Maybe they educate it in survival guides if you get lost inside the wilderness, or the power goes out and also you one way or the other have paper and pen and… But I digress.

Right. I’ve constantly had awful handwriting, and I in part blame Silver Star School and the main at the time, who shall stay nameless, because of the reality that they determined to train us Grade 4s (I’m guessing right here, someplace around 1969) the latest, the present day, the hippest, the fine Script Writing instead of that vintage, dusty, unhip cursive writing fashion that turned into not going to live on the ‘60s. If you Google ‘scriptwriting’ these days, it tells you the way to write a screenplay. If you Google cursive writing, it offers you severa approaches to analyze it.

Oops. Bad name.

I spent the rest of my instructional career looking to conceal the fact that I by no means learned to write and attempted to evolve the script fashion, so it seemed a touch greater person, with restricted success. It resulted in a terrific deal of self-consciousness on my element and probably the purpose why humans seem to have a problem studying my hand-written notes. It even affected my try to expand a signature that regarded person till I just sooner or later went with a couple of squiggles. “You have to be a medical doctor,” the workforce might regularly inform me as they tried to interpret what my be aware stated.

I determine perhaps medical doctors are taught scriptwriting in medical faculty, likely in the first year. Then they adopt it themselves so that by the time they’re graduating, nobody can study anything they write except for pharmacists of direction who should take a path to study scriptwriting. It’s curious that such a vital conversation hyperlink — between physician and pharmacist — is the stuff of comedian remedy because of the medical doctor’s incapacity to thread words together coherently on paper. I cannot see how bad handwriting could mistake arsenic for aspirin, but what do I realize? And who am I to talk to?

Sure, I wasn’t taught cursive writing, but I could’ve learned it somewhere along the road. It’s not clearly Mr. B’s fault, ordinarily. And what made my incapacity to write down official currently is after I tried to deposit a cheque that I wrote at a financial institution system two times. Now the element the bank system couldn’t read changed into the amount, which was both in numeral and written shape on the cheque (if a number of you forgot how cheques paintings). Still, it’s genuinely immaterial as I had two possibilities to communicate to the gadget and failed: same deal and the identical result at any other bank gadget a few minutes later. I had to type in both financial institution machines; however, it had no such trouble with the cheque from my spouse. She wrote smartly and went to a primary college in Kamloops. And her signature is so notable; people really pay cash to see it on paper (well, plus she’s a notary).

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Total alcohol fan. Thinker. Beer buff. Evil coffee enthusiast. Web fanatic. Food trailblazer. Earned praise for analyzing lint for the government. Spent 2001-2005 donating easy-bake-ovens in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Uniquely-equipped for consulting about tattoos in Minneapolis, MN. Have a strong interest in managing fatback in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Spent 2001-2008 writing about pogo sticks in Nigeria. Spent 2002-2008 supervising the production of rocking horses for the government.

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