A couple of weeks ago, as I sat with friends in Maryland next to their Christmas tree, I heard their teenage daughter - who I shall call Julia - complain about her recent school tests. But what threw her off her stride were not the multiple choice questions or the essays. The shock came when the examiners asked her to write her name and a brief sentence in “cursive” style (or what British people call “joined-up” writing, as opposed to block print).
几周前，我与马里兰州的朋友坐在他们家的圣诞树旁，听到他们家十几岁的女儿（暂且称她为茱莉亚）抱怨学校最近的考试。让她感觉困难的不是多项选择题或者论文，而是出题人要求她用“草书”(cursive)（英国人叫做“连笔”(joined-up)，即不是每个字母单独拼写）——写下自己的名字和一个简短的句子。
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