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Interesting question. I think e-mail AND cheap long distance has rendered letter writing obsolete. I used to have a pretty good rep as a good letter writer- to friends, family and several comic books I had letters printed in.
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Sadly, I think, yes it is dead or well on its way to dying. I've tried many a time to correspond with people by mail. They love getting mine and hate having to write back. I now write in my scrapbook, knowing one day my children will read it as a looooooooooooong letter from me in the past. After all the oil runs out and we're back to getting stuff across country by pony, they'll make a comeback though.
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Fifteen years of further experience have also shown me that women who write letters outnumber men by about 9 kabillion to 1.
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Jan 23, 2022 - 8:34 PM
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jenkwombat
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Interesting question. A few weeks ago I was writing my "Thank You" letters (do those count?) to relatives who'd sent me gifts over the holidays, and I found the whole experience like having teeth pulled. (I'm exaggerating some, but I think you know what I mean.) I'm more than happy to thank someone who has done something nice for me, but filling out the rest of the letter was "awkward", to say the least. My life isn't that interesting, so thinking of things to say in the body of the letter was hard for me, I must admit. I got it done, and am glad to have thanked my kind and giving relatives, but boy, I wish I had more "Dickens" in me.
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Jan 24, 2022 - 3:17 AM
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Rameau
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I've never heard of the Christmas letter. In the UK there's the Round Robin Christmas letter, where the sender sends the same letter to all their friends, letting them know how the year's gone, only the good things, they leave out or make light of the darker stuff (my sister does it), but I think that's mostly email now. I think email is a good thing, I've never been much of a letter writer (or any kind of letter writer), but I do send off long rambling emails to friends & ex-colleagues. And here I am, publishing to the world (well, the tiny bit of it that visits this site). Another thing, cheques. I have two cheque books in a draw, I can't remember the last time I used one.
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"...but filling out the rest of the letter was "awkward", to say the least. My life isn't that interesting, so thinking of things to say in the body of the letter was hard for me,..." Congratulations on doing thank you notes. You're miles ahead of the rest of the population for doing so. And to make it easier on you: Jen, luv, the whole of a thank you letter is about the gift, nothing else. So save yourself the agony and peruse this template. Dear Solium, I was so pleased to receive the 9 kabillion letters you sent me. It was really thoughtful of you to do the research in the post office to find out where they had gone. Thank you so much for brightening... my year! It will take me that long to read them all, but I'll definitely enjoy doing so. Sincerely yours, Sir David of Barkeley Short and sweet. Really, Jen, there's no need to write too much more than this.
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Jan 29, 2022 - 12:31 PM
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Howard L
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from a messageboard long, long ago in early cyberspace far, far away... CHRIS (warmly, and with confidence): No, my friend. You do know. They say the Net has shrunk the world but at the same time you know and I know it’s not really bringing people any closer together—it’s making them more afraid, drawing them apart. And that’s the great paradox in all this modern-day mass communication. Think about it: before this century came along people didn’t move around and travel back and forth, they couldn’t pick up a phone—they wrote! Whole relationships were sustained—sometimes MADE—through letters. And people wrote with their minds, their hearts, their souls. And the language? Oh, my God. Think of the letters between John and Abigail Adams. HOWARD (with wheels turning): Yes. And the Civil War letters in that Ken Burns documentary. CHRIS: YES! And that’s the drawback to all this highfalutin’ technology: the art of writing letters has practically disappeared. That is what is truly shallow. It’s a shame. Writing letters was an art. But suppose you form a chemistry, find a connection not through the pen but the keyboard—what’s wrong with that? It’s just another writing tool —true, a highly-developed tool.
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Short and sweet. Really, Jen, there's no need to write too much more than this. Oops. I forgot to say that I'm referring to a thank you NOTE, not a letter. Slightly different animal.
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Jan 29, 2022 - 8:33 PM
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Solium
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"...but filling out the rest of the letter was "awkward", to say the least. My life isn't that interesting, so thinking of things to say in the body of the letter was hard for me,..." Congratulations on doing thank you notes. You're miles ahead of the rest of the population for doing so. And to make it easier on you: Jen, luv, the whole of a thank you letter is about the gift, nothing else. So save yourself the agony and peruse this template. Dear Solium, I was so pleased to receive the 9 kabillion letters you sent me. It was really thoughtful of you to do the research in the post office to find out where they had gone. Thank you so much for brightening... my year! It will take me that long to read them all, but I'll definitely enjoy doing so. Sincerely yours, Sir David of Barkeley Short and sweet. Really, Jen, there's no need to write too much more than this. Ahem, that's King Solium.
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Ahem, that's King Solium. See my post today in the Nerd War thread for my reply to this!
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That's cuz we can't write a letter while holding a beer in one hand and the TV remote in the other. There's at least ONE thing they manage to do while holding a beer in one hand and the TV remote in the other, so THAT'S not the reason. Nope, Jackdawg, it's because men don't like to communicate.
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