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My handwriting is terrible. Should I be worried?
Writing by hand is one of our species’ foundational achievements. We take it for granted, but if it disappeared, we would miss it more than we can imagine.
Pilita ClarkColumnistLast month, I went on holiday to a small town at the bottom of Spain that I have been visiting for more than 20 years, where a friend asked: “Why is your Spanish still so bad?”
“Er,” I said, struggling to remember how to say in Spanish that, after decades of fitful studies, there had, in fact, been times when I could speak as well as any local four-year-old.
Financial Times
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