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I have a range of handwriting. Even though I used to do calligraphy my cursive hand has really deteriorated. I do checks and notes in a pretty rough architectural small-caps lettering. If I end up doing a quick note, though, like a phone message ... hoo boy.
Mine looks like a pair of angry rhesus monkeys have been forceably strapped to my wrist and are struggling valliantly for freedom at the expense of my penmanship.
I spent so much time trying to write neatly when I was younger, with no success at all, that now I absolutely despise writing. If I just need to leave someone a very short note I still do it on the computer and print it out.
(It's really just the product of this handwriting-to-font program posted about, coincidentally, exactly one year ago. The default is more wide-spaced than my real handwriting, but with some kerning tweaks it's indistinguishable.)
Aw man, the rampant manuscript dysthymia in this place is heartbreaking. Or maybe it's manuscript dismorphia. My diagnosis is not final yet.
Come on mechites; you're handwriting is fine!
Répétez après moi: "say it out loud I'm a scribbler and I'm proud".
in order to diagnose dysthymia or dysgraphia we'd need a standardized test.... hmmm I don't think that's a good idea. I mark student papers and trust me, they're no better (or really that worse) than this thread. Geez, "Special" snowflake, indeed!
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"My handwriting has 3 primary fonts. The first is small caps, meant to be unambiguous and legible. The second is printing for email addresses. The final is cursive used for correspondence. If I'm taking the time to handwrite, you will require that time to read. There is also a 4th which is simply scrawl - written quickly to be short lived and read quickly - notes in debugging for the most part."
@jouke: what's my handwriting like? I'm not so scannerifically technical otherwise, I'd happily indulge you all. I don't actually write, I print, with 'a's which are shaped like this font, and 'e's which are like backward 3's. Otherwise, messy as hell, and I'm lazy so I rarely write out full words. Godess help any of my students who walk into class so late that the board has already been half filled and they didn't have the verbal context to fill in the scrawls.
Hey, it's fun seeing your handwriting.
My writing up there was my sunday best. Some of you have provided a view of worknotes. Which is more realistic of course. Here's a sample of some meeting notes of mine. ≡ Click to see image ≡
I see some cursive writing, though not a lot.
Any ideas on why that is? Is cursive writing not taught in the US? I always think it's just what you get when you want to write more quickly by not taking your pen of the paper so often. Voilá, there's your cursive automatically.
What am I missing? Why is cursive writing not more popular?
that girl, I guess that all the connecting lines that you have with cursive can tend to collide and obscure the outline of the characters and make the writing less legible. Maybe people write more slowly with cursive to prevent that.
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