65gmexl3@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWhat do you think is the worst human invention?message-squaremessage-square122linkfedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down125file-text
arrow-up166arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you think is the worst human invention?65gmexl3@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square122linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·3 months agoCursive handwriting. Sorry, everything you wrote is useless because nobody, not even you, can read it.
minus-squareThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoBeing illegible is the point. Doctors just write ‘his shit is fucked up, give him drugs or whatever idk’ in Latin and if people understood that they would freak out
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minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI work in a museum, the amount of data lost due to illegible cursive handwriting is staggering.
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minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoIt’s very sensitive to sloppiness too, I think, like if you write quickly or mindlessly it loses form and legibility very easily.
Cursive handwriting. Sorry, everything you wrote is useless because nobody, not even you, can read it.
Being illegible is the point. Doctors just write ‘his shit is fucked up, give him drugs or whatever idk’ in Latin and if people understood that they would freak out
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I work in a museum, the amount of data lost due to illegible cursive handwriting is staggering.
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It’s very sensitive to sloppiness too, I think, like if you write quickly or mindlessly it loses form and legibility very easily.