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Mine included.
The best handwriting I've seen in our family is when 9yo started at the local colegio publico and was within a short period writing beautiful joined script.

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that's because they still teach handwriting here


both my girls can write beautifully -as evidenced by some of the 'libretta' work I have seen them hand in



sadly they both seem to choose not to most of the time :(

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Yes, sorry failed to say that. It wasn't cos he wanted to or I taught him, it's the Spanish system. Should be adopted universally! (well those languages using the Roman/Latin alphabet;))

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I just assumed, obviously wrongly, that handwriting was still taught in Uk schools.
I am 60 and remember being taught handwriting with a pencil. We were not allowed to progress to ink until our work was neat and tidy.
A great day when I was handed a pen with a nib and my our ink pot filled up by my teacher.
I do think I broke the world record for blotting paper usage afterwards though!

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:lol:I am proud to be a geriatric. I have worked long and hard to become one. It has taken me more than 70 years to reach this status; and I'm not about to just give it up because it aint fashionable.
'lluego,
'o nonno

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Damn good philosophy. Keep up the good work.

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As people say: "La juventud es una enfermedad que se cura con el tiempo"... ("Youth is an illness that heals with time")

almost there... :lol:

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O, la edad no perdona.

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Edad +++ = no PENDONA

:rofl:

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Correct... but I prefer the other one as it puts growing up in a positive light... maybe because I have already grown up! ;)

Like... "A barco nuevo, capitán viejo" (For a new ship, an old Captain)

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Good one, JLFS! :lol:

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Maybe, but they do say there's no fool like an old fool..

A la vejez, viruelas.. (still seems a strange translation to me)

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I always heard that one as making fun of old people in love with young ones... another way of calling somebody "viejo verde" when talking of an old man.

Or making fun of an old person who still acts as a young one. Dressing, flirting...

So the traslation is quite a good one, just not textual.

I think it comes because one would normally have viruela (smallpox) when you are a kid or teenager, not when you are old.

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Sort of like "many a good tune played on a old fiddle"

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I get confused with chicken pox and small pox, which is the one that all kiddies get?

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chicken pox - varicela