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There oughta be a law!
Barmymoo:
Akima, I make an exception for sportswear, because there is a function which renders the otherwise inappropriate garment suitable. A bit like swimwear. No one would argue that it's wrong to wear a swimming costume, but someone who walked around in just a leotard would get some funny looks (and at this time of year in the UK, hypothermia).
Mr. Doctor:
If 1/4 of the class doesn't understand what the University teacher is writing. He/She MUST take a course for proper writing. This is not negotiable and any teacher who refuses to change will be punished some way or another.
(Seriously... I'm sick of that)
Carl-E:
So you're talking legibility, not content, right?
I'm left handed. I eat left handed, and several other things are more comfortable that way.
Not completely, though - ambidexterity runs in my family. I'm ambidextrous enough so that, in first grade, when they were showing us how a let handed person holds a pencil so as not to smear (couldn't find an image of that for those of you younger than about 30, you hooked your wrist, it was terrible) - well, I laughed and laughed, and put the pencil in my right hand.
The result of that decision is that I don't really have the coordination to write right-handed, and no training to write left handed (although I can do a nice mirror-script left handed, go figure).
At the beginning of each semester, I apologize to my students, and tell them that, "If at any time you can't read what I've written, please be sure to stop me. Odds are, no one else can read it either, and sometimes even I can't read it..."
As for understanding the content, well, I teach math and stats.... :evil:
Carl-E:
Oh! I found a pic of someone demonstrating this technique - note how the hand is hooked above the line of writing, so that the pen leads at the correct angle (a right-handed angle).
I found it very uncomfortable.
Pilchard123:
I really hated my stats classes at college, though I think that was more to do with the teacher (Finished all the work? You obviously didn't do it well enough. Didn't finish the work? You're lazy/not trying/too distracted.) than the subject. I found myself missing the classes a few days ago because I'm losing the ability to do what I learned.
As for writing, I'm also a cack-hander and...well, let's just say that I should become a doctor.
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