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Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

pcrh wrote: post #38
iso1210 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the rest of the time it's illegible scrawl and has no place in basic education. Even [0], the US declaration of independence, is horrendous to read compared to this 8 year old girl's handwriting. https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-declaration-of-independenc... ?

That is perfectly legible. Many modern fonts are less legible than that. I am curious about the opposition to cursive script that some people demonstrate, mostly in the US. In Europe cursive script is the norm; block letter writing by an adult is considered a mark of poor education.

"block letter writing by an adult is considered a mark of poor education"

Are you sure about that? It isn't uncommon to require it on forms. Also, Europe is a big and varied place - perhaps it is just one part of Europe? Where in Europe were you referring to?

Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Post by timonoko »

chronogram wrote: post #79
timonoko wrote: post #70

Amazing. This message is 12 years old, but I intercepted it just before it was crossing the Russian border. https://photos.app.goo.gl/8HyVefn7oHJTw3xy9 Also I had a message from Japan in a Suntory Whisky bottle, but I cannot find it. Written in Nipponese it was. Achually I have found at least 6 bottled messages. Most of them uninteresting and from nearby.

Did you write back like the letter hoped?

That would be little weird. Do it yourself.

Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Post by erik_seaberg »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #43
Zababa wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know anyone that find out what they were interested by learning random things in primary school. I don't think it is a common experience.

My interest in computers didn't come from primary school; primary school didn't teach us very much about computers, except near the end in a one-off series of experimental lessons by a teacher who left not long afterwards. However, my interest in biology very much came from primary school; until then, I didn't know there was a field of study devoted to living things. (Sure, I could've found out later, but why should…

My parents got me the first(!) home computer in seventh grade. High school had a computer club but no computer classes. There was one typing class, taught in a room with dozens of incredibly loud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter>s.

Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

jmkni wrote: post #76

I've seen so many of these stories recently: "message in a bottle found after..." - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22message+in+a+bottle+found... "letter delivered after..." - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22letter+delivered+after%22... "postcard delivered after..." - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22postcard+delivered+after%... At least some of these are fake, surely?

Why don't you do investigations yourself instead of begging the question?

I mean. How many bottles are yote into the ocean? How many are found?/ And how many news outlets would love to publish stories like this? I mean, the other part here is that these found messages wouldn't get reported on before, or if they did, they'd be in local news instead of internationally accessible and googleable sources. Confirmation bias?

Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

oneoff786 wrote: post #20
iso1631 wrote: post #2

Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)

Some people, including some commenters down thread seem to think cursive is about being fancy. It’s not, it’s an efficiency play for writing faster. That’s of course useless in modern day with so little actual hand writing. So it’s less common in schools

I wonder if they kept holding onto it for a good while because it was also an exercise in manual dexterity.

I mean it didn't work for me, my handwriting is still scribbled and anything but aesthetically pleasing, lol.

Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

toast0 wrote: post #33
happytoexplain wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, skilled penmanship and calligraphy is wonderful. But in my personal life, the majority of times I encounter cursive, I can not even read the handwriting, which is, to put it lightly, bad.

I'm equally skilled at illegible writing in block letters or cursive, thanks. My third grade teacher thought I'd turn out ok, because I'd have a secretary. Sadly, secretaries were out of fashion by the time I graduated college.

I'm not sure if they fell out of fashion, or because people don't want to pay reasonable rates for them anymore.

Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

k_sze wrote: post #67

"Nautically" speaking, if you must release your bottle from the shore and not in the middle of the sea, how/where should you do it to ensure it travels as far as possible? That's a question that comes to my mind whenever I think about message in a bottle.

Probably when the tide turns, dragging the bottle out to sea, and when the wind is 'away' from the land towards the sea.
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