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21 May 2007

My handwriting looks like my father's! Despite my attempt at an early age to develop a unique handwriting style, I noticed today that an envelope I addressed looks like it could have come from my father. Hmmm...

post by: mischief at: 13:53 | 12 comments

Yea, I see both of my parents' awful scrawls in mine.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 21 May | 13:59

My handwriting is pretty much a cross of my sister's and mother's writing. I wish I had my dad's handwriting, though -- his script is really beautiful.

posted by scody 21 May | 14:03

My handwriting is probably the only thing that I don't share with my dad. He and I (and his father) look like clones of each other, minus the age difference. I had to age myself for a show I did once and the hair white and lines on my face made me look exactly like him. Freaky.

posted by backseatpilot 21 May | 14:11

My farts sound just like my mother's farts. I hate this about myself.

posted by danf 21 May | 15:20

My mother writes a perfect, fine script. My dad has a large, messy scrawl. My handwriting looks like a looser, messier version of my mothers.

One time I took a drawing class with my mother. It was interesting to see how, though we sat side-by-side and drew the same things, we would wind up with very different drawings. Her drawings were detail-oriented and refined. Mine were on a larger scale with freer, bolder lines.

posted by Orange Swan 21 May | 15:31

I have no developed handwriting style at all. It's actually a little embarrassing. Basically I have a scrawl that I can sometimes decipher. If I concentrate, it's merely messy.

posted by gaspode 21 May | 15:33

I have my grandmother's handwriting, oddly enough.
I suspect it's because the Catholic school I went to used outdated books for pendmanship.

posted by kellydamnit 21 May | 15:56

My handwriting used to be an exact cross between my mom's and my dad's, but it's been architecturalafied so much now it's just a mish-mash. Oh well.

posted by Specklet 21 May | 16:01

My sister and I both have the same handwriting as my mother. My dad only prints in capital letter and can only write his name in cursive. And I mean that's the only thing he could write in cursive... I asked him to do my name once and he just couldn't. It was strange.

posted by youngergirl44 21 May | 20:48

My dad only prints in capital letter and can only write his name in cursive.

You know, now that you mention it, I can only think of perhaps two or three men I know who write in cursive at all for anything other than signing their names (andm y dad's one of them). The vast, vast majority of guys I know seem to print exclusively. Is this just confirmation bias on my part -- or is printing, in fact, more common than writing in script for men? And if so, I wonder why that is?

posted by scody 21 May | 20:52

I find it almost impossible to print - I start out all nice and square, but it degenerates into an indecipherable scrawl as I go on. My handwriting is atrocious and I strenuously avoid writing anything. This is partly because I can never write as fast as I think, so my scrawl gets worse and worse, but I can type almost as fast as I can think (ie not very).

posted by dg 21 May | 21:08

The vast, vast majority of guys I know seem to print exclusively. Is this just confirmation bias on my part -- or is printing, in fact, more common than writing in script for men?

I'm a guy. And I print everything, including my checks (except for the signature, of course.)

So feel free to add me as another data point, another dude who does not do cursive.

posted by jason's_planet 21 May | 21:22

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