Timeline for Why would people know how to hand write in Star Trek?
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| Sep 13, 2015 at 4:32 | history | edited | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2015 at 4:05 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | The suggestion that writing by hand will ever be obsolete makes me afraid for the future. | |
| S Sep 13, 2015 at 3:53 | history | suggested | Sarah G | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
"Children" is a better word choice than "infant." "Infant" is generally applied to people who are not yet toddlers, or roughly birth to one year old. (It literally comes from Latin for "can't speak".)
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| Jun 21, 2015 at 7:44 | comment | added | Often Right | Related, but not dupe: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68272/… | |
| May 28, 2015 at 20:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/604020467566002177 | ||
| May 28, 2015 at 11:37 | answer | added | Ross Drew | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 28, 2015 at 4:36 | answer | added | IQAndreas | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 27, 2015 at 17:12 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | @Jaydee - that's fine, until envelopes become obsolete - then we'll have to scribble on the backs of our email tablets. :-) | |
| May 27, 2015 at 14:46 | answer | added | Zibbobz | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 27, 2015 at 13:43 | comment | added | elf337 | Given that Chakotay spent some time as an outlaw criminal, a high-ranking member of the Maquis, being able to communicate without technology which could be potentially tracked or bugged would probably be a very useful ability. Also, after his father's death, Chakotay dedicated time to embrace his Native American heritage, this could well have included traditional writing. | |
| May 27, 2015 at 12:20 | comment | added | user20155 | Two words: Dear Diary... | |
| May 27, 2015 at 10:39 | comment | added | Murphy | It wouldn't be a problem if they archived their tape backups properly. | |
| May 27, 2015 at 8:06 | vote | accept | GazTheDestroyer | ||
| May 27, 2015 at 7:52 | comment | added | Williham Totland | @cde I think you meant naval traditions, although you have made me very curious as to what 18th century navel traditions might be. | |
| May 27, 2015 at 3:24 | comment | added | Izkata | @Hypnosifl On the other hand, Japanese and Chinese students are forgetting characters in their languages, instead just recognizing them on their computers/smartphones and choosing the right one when cycling through the options for a given phonetic spelling | |
| May 26, 2015 at 22:36 | comment | added | user15742 | Do they still learn multiple sets of letters (i.e. cursive and printing)? That's what I want to know. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 22:36 | answer | added | Ivan | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 19:58 | answer | added | Jim | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 17:54 | comment | added | Holger | @Martha: I highly doubt that, even for the Chinese language. In the end, readers and writers must agree on what makes the significant parts of the script that tell the different glyphs apart, otherwise it wouldn’t work. And everyone who knows these characteristics of the written language is in principle capable of reproducing them, even if the result might not “look good”, they will be good enough for someone else to understand its meanings. That’s especially true for the character of the question who makes notes for himself. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 17:32 | answer | added | terdon | timeline score: 18 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 17:19 | comment | added | user16696 | @Martha that only applies to languages where the shape is very very important. Sloppy copying of Chinese script makes it illegible but sloppy Romanian or cryllic script would pass most visual checks (hence captcha tests). | |
| May 26, 2015 at 16:19 | answer | added | Nate Watson | timeline score: 54 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 16:18 | history | edited | Paul D. Waite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2015 at 16:08 | answer | added | Kyle Jones | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 14:55 | comment | added | Martha | @Ellesedil: modern education tends to link reading and writing, but they're actually totally separate activities. Think of trying to copy a bit of Chinese writing, for example: even if you have the example right in front of you, your version is likely to look very little like it, and would probably be unreadable to someone who reads Chinese. (In the middle ages, it was common for people to learn to read, but not write - they had scribes for that. And copyists often wrote in a language they couldn't speak, or read.) | |
| May 26, 2015 at 14:43 | comment | added | GazTheDestroyer | @Jaydee: I was just pondering even now in 2015 the only times I use handwriting are scribbling ideas on a pad, on a whiteboard or in birthday cards. My handwriting is consequently terrible :) | |
| May 26, 2015 at 14:41 | comment | added | Jaydee | I doubt handwriting will ever be obsolete. Scribbling some ideas on the back of an envelope is too convenient... if you have an envelope. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 14:37 | comment | added | Ellesedil | Considering that people in Star Trek still need to read, what makes you think that people could not also manually reproduce the letters they read every day by hand? | |
| May 26, 2015 at 14:24 | answer | added | Alarion | timeline score: 25 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Even if they enter most text through speech, I imagine the best way to learn to read as kids would involve learning to write or type as well. And in the real world, research has shown people learn somewhat better when they have to write rather than type notes. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 13:54 | comment | added | user16696 | Same reason they are all obsessed with 18th century navel traditions? | |
| May 26, 2015 at 13:47 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 26, 2015 at 13:42 | history | asked | GazTheDestroyer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |