[Magdalen] Music question

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 01:53:13 UTC 2016


I used those too, and my handwriting was execrable even with them. Ugh.

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:25 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We were taught using the Palmer method, I think. We used the
> worksheets with the lines for the top, bottom, and middle (so the hump
> of a lowercase h needed to come up and touch that middle line, for
> instance...I think the middle line was dashed). I never liked the Q
> that looks like a 2 and stopped doing that as soon as no one made me
> do it that way anymore.
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 7:17 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I switched from cursive to italic at some point in high school.
> >
> > People are always commenting on my penmanship. Apparently it's very
> > beautiful, but neat, tidy, and easy to read. I blame my arthritic paws.
> > -M
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, November 20, 2016, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My UK and Greek pen pals when I was a teen all wrote in Italic script. I
> >> loved it and found it wonderfully easy to read. I wish we taught it to
> our
> >> kids here rather than cursive.
> >>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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