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        You totally amuse me !  Should you really be serious asking me to analyze your handwriting, that would necessarily bring out an attractive profile of the person behind the pen.  And it would make your "fear for your life" simply unfounded.   My own fear is that should it trigger a turnabout - that you would  claim your turn to analyze my handwriting..... I am the one who dies!!!  But wait - I remember having come across a blog intimating that some people think doctors have bad handwriting... and that according to TIME, their handwriting actually kills 7,000 people annually!  Please take note that I'm not the one saying that, okay?   But then, the article adds this bit of comment - that handwriting with such significantly lower legibility is usually associated with being executive or being male!  What do you think of that!  Nice, huh?

        Really seriously,  though,  let me pick up on a strain we earlier shared,  namely;  'the demise of cursive'.  This is actually a commonplace topic at the moment, right?  Created polls ask if
there is value in possessing handwriting skills in a world of digital communication.

        A fact is that cursive writing is no longer mandatory in most public schools, did you know that?  No longer a part of the national education agenda.  But there are concerns and arguments forwarded both for and against it.  On one hand, it is said that cursive writing is outdated,  is time consuming and not as useful as keyboard skills which are the future.  It is not even on tests that rate schools.  On the other hand,  it is viewed that cursive is essential to education as it helps children develop fine motor skills.  It is maintained by neurological science that handwriting plays a large role in the visual recognition and learning of letters....that those who learn to write by hand learn  better.

       To strengthen the latter argument,  an experiment was further pointed out involving 2 groups that were taught a new foreign alphabet.  One group learned by  hand, the other to recognize them on a screen with a keyboard.  Apparently, as it turned out,  the former scored better on recognition tests.  Brain scans on the hands on group showed greater activity in the part of the brain that controls language comprehension, motor related processes and speech associated gestures.  That I find interesting! What do you think?

        Of course, I would also go with the comment of some that  'depth of thought is improved when pen is taken to paper as opposed to keyboarding'.  Now I wonder what might be on your mind too regarding all these......

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        Thanks, Frank!