Last night I participated in a talent show at my church sharing some humorous anecdotes about my grandchildren. As I was preparing for the event I thought about the huge leaps in technology that have happened over the sixty years since I was the age of my grandchildren. I jokingly said that, while all four of my grandchildren have I-pods, in my youth our idea of a nifty hand held communication device was a ball point pen. People chuckled as I said that, but as it happens ball point pens, which I think were actually developed during WW2, were still something of a novelty. We wrote with pencils in school but when we needed to write with ink we wrote with fountain pens that could be refilled by dipping them in a bottle of ink and flipping a little lever to suck the ink up into the pen. Even niftier were the fountain pens that used cartridges filled with ink that you just popped into the barrel. As it happened I had a teacher in seventh and eighth grade (small school - two grades per classroom) that thought it was good practice for us to use dip pens and bottles of ink when we were practicing our penmanship.
Do people still practice penmanship? Is that PC? Should it be penpersonship?
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