Florida woman finds WW II message in a bottle in tropical storm Debby's wake

[turnerriver]

And I've never played one on TV!

Both my cursive and block printing are hard to read.
I worked at a hospital, they had me dress as a doctor for some in house advertising. They wouldn't use a real doctor because every other doctor would ask why they didn't use him or her.
The patient noted my bedside manner needed work.

Regards,

 

[BB57]

Why did you leave out one of the most important parts of the story - the date!!"

Probably because it is prominently written on the letter in the upper right hand corner where the date goes on letters.

Along with cursive they used to teach things like basic letter formatting for personal and business letters.

It's notable that this was probably an enlisted sailor or marine with nothing more than a HS diploma, if that, who was none the less proficient in letter writing skills. What are the odds of that today?

And there's not a single "lol" or emoji to be seen.

 

[llowry61]

I don't care if anyone uses it or not, but EVERYONE should be taught to read it!

The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence are written in cursive.
Would you like to read the originals for yourself, or let others interpret them for you?

Wow, asking people to actually enlighten themselves via reading. Just stop sir, everyone knows that legal documents are not meant to be read they exist purely for the amusement of notaries who are getting rich 1.00 at a time.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Reading cursive is simple. The letters are still there. They are just tethered together by an umbilical cord.

At present I have 4 homeschooled grandchildren that can read cursive having spent very little time having to write using it.

 

[oldbrownhat]

All this talk about cursive writing just reminded me about the style I was taught in elementary school.
It also offers up a neat explaination for why my hurried writing appears 'sloppy' or psychotic.
I think I am writing in muscle memory cursive with splotches of printed letters mixed in. Now I realize it!
Thanks OP!
P.S. I still have my elementary school Parker fountain pen with gols point!

"Reliving childhood traumas" Glad I helped sort that out.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Both my cursive and block printing are hard to read.
I worked at a hospital, they had me dress as a doctor for some in house advertising. They wouldn't use a real doctor because every other doctor would ask why they didn't use him or her.
The patient noted my bedside manner needed work.

 

[boykinlp]

Both my cursive and block printing are hard to read.
I worked at a hospital, they had me dress as a doctor for some in house advertising. They wouldn't use a real doctor because every other doctor would ask why they didn't use him or her.
The patient noted my bedside manner needed work.

Regards,

Very Professional looking, DOC! As a tribute to here, I hope you at least had a Heiser shoulder holster under that lab coat!
Larry

 

[CalifEd]

After all of the 'yuts' learn cursive, maybe the skools can techem some change countin and check books balincin'.

 

[Golddollar]

When I was handwriting/printing documents, I tried to look forward to the documents I created being a record for all time. I am glad that past scriveners took pride in their handwriting when they wrote my ancestor's Naturalization Decree and my grandfather's Enlistment Record and Discharge from the Army back in 1919 after World War I.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Here's some cursive with a personal connection

I just remembered this interesting sample of cursive writing from 1880.

My gf was born in Melbourne Australia. Her father was descended from a Jos. Scheibein (b.1850), a nice Jewish boy from Vienna who came with the Johann Strauss Orchestra (yep- "The Waltz King") in 1880 to be part of an International Festival there (!) He was listed as playing "2nd violin & trumpet".

Amazingly, after the gig, he decided to stay in Oz and ended up marrying the daughter of a Methodist missionary somewhere in the back of beyond. And the rest, as they say, is history. It explains where she gets her musical talents from (she was a professional singer before going back into science, the subject her mother's Russian side were in.)

The other columns to the right, after "English", say, Irish, Scotch and Foreign. All the members were the latter

And for the mariners of the Forum, here's the ship they came on: