Tag Archives: Handwriting

New Year’s Eve Talk and Filksing

On December 31, 2021 Julia Hanna and I hosted an online gathering that included a talk given by handwriting expert Kate Gladstone, and that was followed by a filksing featuring filk legend Leslie Fish and Katrina Joyner. Kate Gladstone also … Continue reading

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Kate Gladstone Talks about Errors in Medieval Manuscripts

  Handwriting expert Kate Gladstone regaled Julia Hanna and me with many amusing stories about errors and doodles in medieval manuscripts last night. Here are some of the links to the stories and images that Kate shared with us. https://medievalbooks.nl/2018/10/05/doodles-in-medieval-manuscripts/ … Continue reading

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A Review of “Read Cursive Fast” by Kate Gladstone

Many people are not good at writing in cursive, but they have no trouble reading it when it is shown to them. Others cannot even make out anything written in cursive. This can be a practical problem, whether it is … Continue reading

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Five Generations of Handwriting Samples

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Because I inherited the correspondence that belonged to my grandmother Klara Goldstoff Katz at the time of her death, the five generations  will be counting from her mother, Mirla Goldstoff all the way to my daughter Sword Katz. I also … Continue reading

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Some beliefs on handwriting are beyond parody …

Some beliefs on handwriting are beyond parody … Are there beliefs SO ridiculous that they are disbelieved by the people who teach them? Continue reading

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What was it like being a medieval scribe? Here’s my guess …

  I wrote this yesterday in an an idle moment, while thinking what it might have been like to be a medieval scribe … SCRIBES OF CAMBREATH By Kate Gladstone (tune: MARCH OF CAMBREATH by Heather Alexander — http://heatherlands.com/mpaudio/Midsummer/March%20of%20Cambreadth.mp3 ) Downstroke slash, serif … Continue reading

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Handwriting News …

/1/ I’ve just learned that I have been very recently quoted on handwriting — well, on the perils of doing it badly — in a fairly big magazine. In other (and perhaps rather more interesting) news of the handwriting world … Continue reading

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Found: precise analysis of cursive defenders’ favorite logical errors

Found: precise analysis of cursive defenders’ favorite logical errors (I disagree, though, with this blogger’s claim that long handwritten messages are always an imposition on the reader. With well-planned practice— and a simple style of handwriting — the results can … Continue reading

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Snippets on handwriting …

/1/ Here’s some proof that liking to use cursive is no guarantee of common sense or accurate spelling. Well, at least the cursive was competent. /2/ Incompetent handwriting — of any style — led to these other cake disasters. /3/ … Continue reading

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Handwriting and Vocabulary Growth

Here’s an unexpected, unintended consequence of pouring precious classroom time into cursive … according to this study from the Journal of Education Research, the longer a student has been taught cursive/required to use cursive. the smaller the vocabulary of that … Continue reading

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