It is very different to hand write rather than type on a computer keyboard. Our generation is now so used to typing, that we constantly question ourselves if we are making any errors when we spell certain words. To be honest, the confidence that I have when I type vanishes and it is harder to concentrate on my current thought. My mind is filled with questions about my grammar and my spelling.
I find it to be very different than the older times. When Helen Keller was born, all they did was hand write and maybe a few privileged ones had a typewriters, however the typewriters were very uncommon back then. I do think that back then people were in better shape when it came to writing, more specifically handwriting. This is because they had no other choice than to do so. If you try and give a person a computer who was born back in those times, then it would take them just as long to get used to it and figure out how to type on it. That person as well will not be able to concentrate on the paper itself, but instead their mind will be occupied with finding way to work the keyboard.
Our generation has lost grammatical skills people had in previous centuries. Now, we are dependent on auto-corrects, spell checks and grammar checks. We do not give it a second thought if we spelled a word right or not, we just rely on our good old friend, Microsoft Word.
I don't even doubt it that in the future, our kids won't even be taught on hand writing. They will be taught how to type on the keyboard starting as early as grade one, if not earlier. There is a chance that our generation and perhaps the next one will be the last ones to know how to hand write. Even right now it is already happening/ How many people our age do you know who can freely, without any challenge, write in cursive? From my own group of friends I know maybe only one person.
In conclusion, I would like to say that people back in those days were a lot better at grammar and hand writing than our current generation.
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