There is also the first page of Trump’s notes, the one where Sondland sets up the context of Trump’s I WANT NOTHiNG.
Wtf is going on over there? Was he sitting in bed transcribing the testimony himself, by hand?
He read all that to the reporters on the lawn. He read it twice, shifting into a more scratchy shouty voice for his own part of the dialogue. When he read the “HE WAS NOT iN A GOOD MOOD” part he said as an aside that [shouting] “I’M ALWAYS IN A GOOD MOOD, I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS.”
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Even if you happen not to know how this particular Sondland is spelled (there are multiple spellings for the same or very similar spelling, though he should know), how the fuck does a person reach their SEVENTIES and still not know ‘Gordon’?
Why does any adult at all need notes for what is essentially “deny everything”??
Check out his e, i and g. None of them are capitalised unless starting a sentence, a name, or being used as the first person pronoun. And the g/G is a weird short version of the lower case.
It’s just… there it is, on display for the world. USA is led by a man who never learned to write complete sentences, struggles to read, needs a pre-written script for even the most basic statement. He appears to have skipped all of high school. It’s all laid out: America’s lasting shame in two photographs.
http://imgbox.com/Sy4CCPH3
High school? Kids are taught to write cursive in…what, second grade? Third? Pretty early.
Or maybe not, any more, now that typing is almost always an option. I keep seeing people who have no idea how to hold a pen.
But Donnie was taught. He was taught but never learned.
Kids are no longer taught cursive; my students mostly don’t know it.
I learned in third grade in Maine. My siblings learned in fourth in Oklahoma. So it varied, yeah, but before high school.
Sigh.
People can survive without it, but…it’s a loss. The relationship is different. Pen and paper = a different relationship to the writing. It’s better to have both. (Cursive is faster, so it follows thought better than print does.)
I learned cursive in fourth grade, oh so many years ago. I hated learning it, in part because the teacher gave permission to use pen rather than pencil as a “reward” for getting an acceptable cursive penmanship grade. Left-handed me never got the grade, but the teacher eventually relented. I no longer use cursive for anything other than a signature. I rarely write by hand, anyway. I support the removal of cursive as a required curriculum element.
I find it is a bad problem that kids can’t read cursive. I have to write all my comments in printing, which takes longer, and is harder on my hands. Since I have arthritis in my hands, this is serious, because so many comments are needed on many papers. (This afternoon, I had to explain over and over and over what a simple phrase meant, because I have begun to realize I no longer share a common language with my students – except the ESL students, who do seem to have a reasonably decent grasp of English, even if they struggle with the syntax). It’s time for me to call in the ADA, and demand that I be allowed to write cursive because it is creating serious problems for me having to print.
I forget how I stumbled on this article from 2016, and I wasn’t able to read the source study, but the upshot is that the process of hand writing forces your brain to think about what you’re recording and you retain more information.
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-put-your-laptops-away
Thinking more about it I’d wager heavily that if you are using a word processor that has auto-complete-suggestions it makes it even worse. Even more interesting is that at first they tested the students without letting them have time to review their notes, but even with time to review the hand writers still did better.
That’s interesting. I keep a spiral notebook always at hand when I’m reading offscreen…I’ve filled over 50 of them. I do it not to record but to…to work out a thought, I guess. Some recording, but mostly just stashing a thought suggested by the reading. It probably helps me retain more information for an hour or two, at any rate.
Re #7, “I find it is a bad problem that kids can’t read cursive.”
I agree, I just don’t think it’s necessary to learn to write it. I liken it to learning to read Fraktur, an old German font.