Comment by ourmandave 4 days ago
Overheard a bank teller the other day saying they're teaching cursive in school again. And she makes her kids hand write thank notes for b'day gifts.
Back In My Day we did cuneiform on stone tablets, and were grateful. Postage was a lot less back then too.
This is a false equivalence. One is a tedious and deprecated way of writing, the other is a complete dependence in technology. Imagine if the power goes down. The kids won't be able to write anymore.
Okay great. One in 10.000 that has a typewriter will be able to write.
While they are definitely not in common use and probably have some defects, I don't think they are that seldom. Most are probably rotting in the cellar/attic.
Back in my day we didn't bother with this new fangled "writing" nonsense, we just remembered things.