> Once you’ve learned to write, you can write with a pen between your toes (crudely because of a lack of fine motor control), with a chisel in wood, with a spra

> Once you’ve learned to write, you can write with a pen between your toes (crudely because of a lack of fine motor control), with a chisel in wood, with a spray can, men can write while peeing into snow, etc. This is not accurate. Find a child who has just learned how to write an A, and ask them to write an A with their feet, or even their non-dominant hand. It will be just as hard as getting them to write a B. The connection between shape and motion is a relatively simple one, but your first attempt at writing a word with piss in snow is gonna look awful. Penmanship needs to be learned in the new context. A fun example I like to bring up involves yelling in foreign languages. Even if you have an impeccable accent in your second language, if you've never practiced talking loudly, the first time you need to order lunch over the noise of a passing subway train, your accent will entirely fall apart as you try to say the same thing, but louder. (Yes, this is a personal anecdote, with a passable accent in my second language, as opposed to impeccable.)