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The Palmer Method

OK, happy pride, and all that (🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍⚧️). I just need to say that I’m never gonna be the type of person that has a mohawk and a battle jacket or anything like that. I very much look like just a nondescript middle-aged person but what just happened to me today is a good example of how much of a contrarian I am.

I have been hearing about AI being the future of business and about business efficiency for years now, so without really making a conscious choice, the rise of AI has pushed me inexorably towards learning one of the more laborious cursive methods available: the Palmer method.

It’s not as fancy as the Spencerian script that everyone aspires to—that looks so beautifully old-fashioned, and so… beautifully hard to read. What makes the Palmer method difficult is you need to re-learn how to write on a fundamental level in order to write in this method.

This has been the story of my life. When everybody is going in one direction, I want to know what they’re moving away from. Why did it become unpopular? I want to explore that. It’s how I’m wired. So since everyone is focusing on doing things with as little effort as possible, of course, I end up wanting to move into this method.

I’m including two resources below. The first one is a playlist and a YouTube channel that gives you all the information and the second one is a link to the textbook on the Palmer method that is currently in the public domain and you can get it from project Gutenberg, but you should probably be mindful that it’s not probably gonna be the kind of thing that you would want to just read on your phone.

The Palmer Method Intro Series

The Palmer Method Intro Series is a companion to the The Palmer Method of Business Writing. The Series covers the first three lessons of the

They also have a 44 lesson general cursive course. If you wanna start with the basics and learn a more general grade school kind of cursive. The reason why I want to learn Palmer method is because I think I might end up developing meaningful amounts of hand arthritis as I get older, and the Palmer method is one of the only types of cursive that you can do if you don’t have a lot of coordination in your hands.

The Palmer Method of Business Writing by A. N. Palmer

Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Here’s the textbook. Thanks for reading.

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California enacts law requiring teaching of cursive writing in schools. 17 other states have too.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one thro

I’m actually in favor of this. I will say that it does seem like the most boomer possible thing to do: insist people learn how to write cursive like the olden days.

For me, as a former teacher, the idea of getting rid of grammar instruction in schools and things like that doesn’t actually seem to be making public schools educate better. An entire generation doesn’t know why we do anything in English. It all just seems arbitrary because they never learned any of the rules. Cursive can be really useful because you can write for much longer without a lot of hand strain. I would suggest bringing back the Palmer method, because that seems like the best way to write for extremely long lengths of time quickly without any hand strain. 

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attempts are being made. not well, but they r being made

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Meses sin publicar en Tumblr y sin practicar la letra palmer

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See also: Spencerian script