• bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    I would say “cursive is how adults write, you’ll need to know it”, but that wasn’t true then either.

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      22 days ago

      “You need a pen licence because that’s what you use at work”.

      Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.

      Only schoolchildren used biros.