Read the following passage carefully and answer question numbers 13 to 17.
I
did that thing recently where you have to sign a big card - which is a
horror unto itself, especially as the keeper of the Big Card was leaning
over me at the time. Suddenly I was on the spot, a rabbit in the
headlights, torn between doing a fun message or some sort of in-joke or a
drawing. Instead overwhelmed by the myriad options available to me, I
decided to just write “Good luck, best, Joel”.
It
was then that I realised, to my horror, that I had forgotten how to
write. My entire existence is “tap letters into computer”. My shopping
lists are hidden in the notes function of my phone. If I need to
remember something I send an e-mail to myself. A pen is something I chew
when I’m struggling to think. Paper is something I pile beneath my
laptop to make it a more comfortable height for me to type on.
A
poll of 1,000 teens by the stationers, Bic found that one in 10 don’t
own a pen, a third have never written a letter, and half of 13 to 19
years - old have never been forced to sit down and write a thank you
letter. More than 80% have never written a love letter, 56% don’t have
letter paper at home. And a quarter have never known the unique torture
of writing a birthday card. The most a teen ever has to use a pen is on
an exam paper.
Bic, have you heard of mobile phones ? Have you heard of e-mail, facebook and
snap chatting? This is the future. Pens are dead. Paper is dead. Handwriting is a relic.
“Handwriting
is one of the most creative outlets we have and should be given the
same importance as other art forms such as sketching, painting or
photography.”
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