yes, a real letter. On a sheet of paper using a pen. A musician friend sent us a Christmas card that had a short note inside. So the reply had to be hand written. My usual is to fire up Word and type. Using a pen is a slower process, you need to think what you are going to write before you write it. Also there is no autocorrect or such like on a pen. The two page letter took about ten minutes longer than it would on a computer but I felt very pleased with the result. Bill Gates or any internet server people did not get their paws on my words, they are between my friend and myself. And nobody else.
If you are not a regular letter writer, give it a try. The old technology still works.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
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I know what you’re saying though, letter writing has become a lost art. A friend of mine does calligraphy and it’s beautiful to look at. I can’t remember the last time I wrote anything with a pen except a shopping list
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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This place being what it is, someone will appear very shortly demanding to know how expensive your pen was! (Half kidding.)
By the way I agree about ICBM's neatness thing. I don't have cause to write much apart from rough scribbles - and my once-ugly handwriting is getting even worse...
"I'm gonna sit right down and write myself an e mail, and make believe it came from you"
"Lonely days are gone, I'm going home, my baby just sent me a text message"
"And while I'm away, I'll post a message on Facebook every day"
"Now I'm eating my heart out, tryin' to get a signal on this bloody iphone"
I was taught how to write letters back at school, is this still done these days?
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I recall that all the girls at school had writing that looked like it had been created by a machine it was so crisp and neat.
I don't use either of them to write letters though as I've nobody to write to who I don't just speak to instead
However I can no longer put down a squiggle that can be interpreted as a defect on legal inspection documents at work now, as we've gone digital. I've now got to actually think about how to describe defects using proper terms, and type them in. :-/
I'm left handed and write with all the grace of harry the spider marching his ink soaked feet across the paper.
Tragic.