I don’t think many people do that anymore. Yesterday I wished a friend I’ve known for over 20 years a happy birthday - on Twitter. She seemed okay with that.
Pulling into the shady gas station in the bad part of town to ask directions because you are totally lost
Writing a school report from the limited information you find in the 20 year old encyclopedia in the school library
I don’t just expect to print, I do it. Why not? I don’t know anyone my age who writes in cursive, or who can read it easily, for that matter.
I’ll add:
Typing on phone keypad; I expect all phones will have qwerty keyboards in a decade or two.
OMG…I didn’t read the rest of the thread after this but had to jump ahead to when I bought my most-recent car (last year) and went to pay for it with a check and found I had absolutely no memory of how to fill one out! (I’m 40, and we were actually TAUGHT this in like…7th grade?)
Confusing math and arithmetic should die out, but I doubt it will any time soon.
I’ve seen stamp-wetting sponges in pictures of office settings dating from the 1920s.
Or voice recognition.
Fortunately, the Clinton adminstration ended that requirement.
Now you had to suck.
You realize a big reason we are in the current economic mess is because a lot of people couldn’t be bothered to read the terms of their mortgage, couldn’t calculate whether they could afford it and didn’t think that buying a $300,000 house on $45,000 a year salary might be a bad idea?
So many anachronisms…
You know they have weather aps on smart phones these days?
Dad took me hunting sometime back in the late 1980’s…We rented a bedroom in the bottom of some guy’s house. While Dad was getting ready, I turned on the black and white TV to see if there were any channels in Podunk Nebraska broadcasting before 6am.
The one channel I got was a camera, pointed at three gauges: Temp, Windspeed/Dir, Clock.
No clue where those conditions were for, but there ya go. Anachronism time.
Why is this becoming a bash-the-young thread? Kids still learn to read. Handwriting is less important, but if you can write on a computer, you can write. The “thinking” thing is almost not worth commenting on. Kids haven’t been using slide rules for a generation or so.
It sounds like you and your mother didn’t learn them either. Am I wrong?
Taking 10 books out of the library to write one report.
Taking any books out of the library for any reason.
Ahh, but I see many people in their 20s and even 30s, as well as teenagers, who don’t tie their shoes! Is it a trend, simply leaving the shoes untied, or is it because they’ve already lost the skill?
I mail my landlord a monthly check for rent. When I’ve had roommates, they’ve also paid by check. I’ve never heard of a landlord taking electronic payment. As a young person, unless you are electronically paying a mortgage, you’d better know how to write a check.
You can pay a lot of bills electronically, but not all of them.
My bank has a free service with which I can electronically order them to send a physical check to the address of my choosing, on the repeating or one-time schedule of my choosing. The only checks I’ve written in the last year were to the babysitter, when I didn’t have cash for her.
How is rolling down a window a skill? A retarded monkey with asses for hands could roll a window down.
It’s the same type of trend as the “belt below the butt” thing, usually found on the same people. Doesn’t mean they don’t know how to tie their shoelaces.
Err, when I need to write something I just write it normally. :dubious: Why would cursive ever be *more *legible than print, unless you just have terrible handwriting?
But they’d have to learn eventually. I teach 7th grade and all of them know how to tie their shoes.
Already been said and kind of dismissed. Why would they not need know this? Analogue clocks are everywhere.