Forgotten characters

As software obviates the need for Chinese to sketch by hand the characters that make up their written language, they are coming to realize that those characters are being erased from their memories. Barbara Demick recently reported on this "long descent into forgetfulness" in the Los Angeles Times: This is a strange new form of illiteracy — or, more exactly, dysgraphia, the inability to write — that is peculiar to China ... The more gadgets people own — cellphones, smart phones, computers — t...