sirveyr, post: 453743, member: 6680 wrote: What we've all learned from this is that cursive writing is dumb.
Boo hissss!!
I'm sure I read somewhere that a serif font like Times Roman is faster to read than a sans-serif font like Arial.
Good thread regardless. Fun reading and challenge.
"One", that's what I'd like to change my guess to.:cool:
The purpose of cursive was speed, sometimes legibility suffered.
I would think printing with a quill pen would be slow.
Dave Karoly, post: 453769, member: 94 wrote: The purpose of cursive was speed, sometimes legibility suffered.
My now 8 year old friend has to practice print (the main mode) and cursive writing at school, and I know she's asked me why cursive, the answer to which I didn't know so I side stepped it with the statement that "I had to do it when I was a nipper". (So) now I can tell her why.
Not that it adds anything to the solution, but:
In days of old, the letter w was sometimes treated as a vowel. One of the more common words that maintained this usage is "Cwm" (KOO-m), relating to the steep hollow at the mouth of a valley caused by glacial erosion (I've read a fair amount of hiking books that used the term...). #themoreyouknow
Richard Imrie, post: 453777, member: 11256 wrote: My now 8 year old friend has to practice print (the main mode) and cursive writing at school, and I know she's asked me why cursive, the answer to which I didn't know so I side stepped it with the statement that "I had to do it when I was a nipper". (So) now I can tell her why.
The advantage of cursive is the pen does not lift from the paper as much.
People like my mother who were taught penmanship could write neatly and legibly surprising fast.
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That's it! When I was young penmanship was taught with emphasis on neatness and speed. Some of us were poor at it but especially the girls in my class took pride in their penmanship skills. Over time the standards fell off and I would guess calling it penmanship became a hurtful insult towards girls bringing about detention for lack of more appropriate politically correct language or terminology...;)
Tom Adams, post: 453691, member: 7285 wrote: Where's Kent. He's good at some of those note decipherings. I've seen a few others on this board nail old handwritings down as well.
I think it worked out well in spite of not having his input. Crowdsourcing helped.
Dave Karoly, post: 453769, member: 94 wrote: The purpose of cursive was speed, sometimes legibility suffered.
Dave, I think that's the start of a good poem. Too many syllables for Haiku. Let me see if I can finish it:
The purpose of cursive was speed,
sometimes legibility suffered.
A quill written deed
In the past filled the need, but
certainly makes reading it tougher!
Penmanship was worth 5pts on all papers in school.
That made it possible to make 105 on tests.
Though I do not remember now the day because it's been longer than my daughter or I either one care to admit to, BUT, I could tell you almost to the day that she had her first crush on a boy. Her handwriting improved dramatically immediately. Had to look pretty when she wrote that boy's name...
- I'm throwing my vote in that it says "one rock mrkd NE1"
Thanks for the list of abbreviations, Andy. I didn't run across any geologic abbrs. either. I was thinking that "ane" might be an abbreviation for andesite, a volcanic rock. There is a Potato Hill Andesite in Brewster County, but I'm not sure that is anywhere close to your area.
So, I have a couple of questions now. Given that it reads "one rock mrkd NE1", why? The previous line is "1900 vrs a stone on N. side of Painted Mountain". If one presumes that "md" was inadvertently omitted, the next line indicates that one rock in that mound was scribed "NE1". Since it is the NE Cor. of 2, why the erroneous mark? It appears to also be the NE Cor. of Block 15, so I can see the possibility that the rock was later broken or missing the "5".
Interesting. I'm just trying to figure out why a rock in a supposedly found stone mound is not marked "NE2" or "NE II" unless it was set earlier as the NE Cor. of Block 15.
It's a "one" for me.
Andy Nold, post: 453707, member: 7 wrote: I've got it. I think it says "one" as in one of the rocks in the mound is marked NE1 (which is still weird). He neglected to say stone mound at the start of the sentence, but that was what he is typically setting was a rock mound.
Just a quick update on this strangely marked rock mound. Another surveyor tied the same corner in 1906. At this time, he noted that the rock was now marked N.E. 1 and N.E. 2. Apparently in the intervening 17 years, someone took the effort to add the correct designation to the stone.
sirveyr, post: 453743, member: 6680 wrote: What we've all learned from this is that cursive writing is dumb.
The Declaration of Independence is in cursive. Cursive isn't dumb. But there is sloppy.
I intentionally use cursive notes, just not sloppy. It's a skill that shouldn't be looked down upon or let go.