Yes and yes. Well, that last yes is an ‘often’. It’s been seen before.
The President of the United States, this Titan of Business, is semi-literate at best. I’m sure his base see that as an endearing sign that he’s one of them.
Also, fancy being so pathetically vain that he needs his notes printed in 36-point (at least – it’s hard to tell because his tiny hands skew perspective) to avoid the shame of having to wear reading glasses and risk appearing less-than perfect.
AoS, yes. Thing is it possibly, in part at least, explains his terribly halting reading style. For instance, I need +2.5 for reading off a screen now. With my glasses I can read very fine print no problems. Without them, I can for instance read the word ‘Patreon’ on this web page, but it’s blurry. If Trump doesn’t know what he’s going to read (and I bet he doesn’t prep that hard), I bet he has to be constantly pausing to reread or consider words. Especially those with more than two syllables.
Except, to take the joke literally for the space of this comment, he couldn’t, because writing and the practice of writing takes up a lot of time and attention in the early grades. (Or used to. I don’t know if it still does.) I know someone else who writes a weird mix of caps and small, and I always wonder how that happens. My first grade classroom had a big poster on the wall we faced with the alphabet in caps and small. We were supposed to know both by heart and use them correctly. ThIs wAs NoT aLloWeD.
I have to confess that I do that a lot myself when forced to print. I have no idea why I do it, because I don’t do it in cursive, which is my preferred form of writing. Maybe it’s just a subconscious rebellion against bosses who tell me I have to print because my students can’t read cursive.
Really? The President of the United States took a permanent marker, and put a line through ‘Corona’ and wrote ‘CHiNeSe’?
The racism is breathtaking.
And another thing: does he always write so badly? Consonants in upper case, vowels in lower case?
Yes and yes. Well, that last yes is an ‘often’. It’s been seen before.
The President of the United States, this Titan of Business, is semi-literate at best. I’m sure his base see that as an endearing sign that he’s one of them.
Yes, he did, and yes, he does.
Also, fancy being so pathetically vain that he needs his notes printed in 36-point (at least – it’s hard to tell because his tiny hands skew perspective) to avoid the shame of having to wear reading glasses and risk appearing less-than perfect.
My god this man is pathetically small.
AoS, yes. Thing is it possibly, in part at least, explains his terribly halting reading style. For instance, I need +2.5 for reading off a screen now. With my glasses I can read very fine print no problems. Without them, I can for instance read the word ‘Patreon’ on this web page, but it’s blurry. If Trump doesn’t know what he’s going to read (and I bet he doesn’t prep that hard), I bet he has to be constantly pausing to reread or consider words. Especially those with more than two syllables.
Then again, he could have been away from school they day they had writing.
Except, to take the joke literally for the space of this comment, he couldn’t, because writing and the practice of writing takes up a lot of time and attention in the early grades. (Or used to. I don’t know if it still does.) I know someone else who writes a weird mix of caps and small, and I always wonder how that happens. My first grade classroom had a big poster on the wall we faced with the alphabet in caps and small. We were supposed to know both by heart and use them correctly. ThIs wAs NoT aLloWeD.
I have to confess that I do that a lot myself when forced to print. I have no idea why I do it, because I don’t do it in cursive, which is my preferred form of writing. Maybe it’s just a subconscious rebellion against bosses who tell me I have to print because my students can’t read cursive.
Huh. I voluntarily print any communication to other people because my script [cursive] is idiosyncratic and I’m fine with that.