The Flexibility of Language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

I guess I can go along with this thought that digital writing (or typing) is much more flexible than writing on paper. I just feel as an admirer of English as a whole that there is a certain loss of a major aspect of the subject. Handwriting is a very personal part of anyone even if you don't think so. You have been working to perfect a legible form for most of your life and over that time you have developed your own style given your works some personality.

With the emergence of type based texts I feel that writing is losing the personality it once had as you jot down thoughts on a post it or in the margin of a book. Through this emergence as you expand horizons you also uniform certain things in very subtle ways you don't have a font to make your own you have to choose what you would like to use, you don't get to pick how to dot your i's and cross your t's. Sure, the idea of a "paperless" classroom sounds appealing but at the same time it is taking away the individuality we stride to encourage in the classroom.