If Young Abe Lincoln Had Lived Today....

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Several of us at Surratt House had a conversation not too long ago about how historians will make it in the next fifty or so years. Texting will have destroyed any semblance of correct spelling. To top it off, the school system is supposedly doing away with teaching handwriting (or cursive for the younger generation). Historical research has depended on translating ancient handwriting forms for so many years, but will researchers of the future know how to read and decipher things that we have taken for granted? Wait until they come up against the colonial form of the double "s" where the first "s" is transformed to appear as an "f"..... Mifses in written form.