I have been told I write "calligraphically". Interestingly, my handwriting is MUCH better when I write with an ink pen than when I write with a ballpoint. MUCH. My normal handwriting is a mix of cursive and printing - some letters connect and some don't.

Also, to me "block letters" would imply ASSCAPS.

By block letters you just mean lowercase but not joined up?

I think of block letters as being basically small caps.

I have a ridiculous semi-cursive way of writing, like I'm really printing, but too lazy to pick up the pen. Although I write by hand less and less anymore.

This just seems weird to me. Only 15% of the next batch of college freshmen use cursive?

I was taught cursive from the beginning and discarded it just as soon as I was allowed to. I could never write in cursive as prettily as I could when printing.

My writing changes with my mood. But mostly I use a combination of 'printing' and cursive. Often in the same word. For some reason, if more than one s appears in a word, the first will be block, the next cursive and so on. I have NO idea where that habit came from.

But being dyselxic holds its own thrills where handwriting is concerned. Frankly I'm damned if I do and if I don't. Handwritten things need crossings out where a d becomes a g or a b becomes a p. But spell check doesn't catch mistaken words that are spelled correctly.

Thank gods for the email age. Now most people make little errors here and there.

Speaking of the information age. I tried to explain a mimeograph machine to a young military administrator yesterday. It was hylarious. Sort of like explaining color to the blind.

to me "block letters" would imply ASSCAPS.

It implied that to me, but since I can't imagine writing more than a sentence in ASSCAPS, and I'm entirely normal, can't be, can it?

Or perhaps my logic is flawed somewhere.

Fountain pens were mandatory in high school for me, and calligraphy was mandatory for my sister in her last prep school. Not like a calligraphy class, but they had to do all their writing in italics with a slant-nib pen.

I only calligraphed as a hobby.

I have terrible handwriting and really the only thing I write in cursive is my signature. I always had problems with it and tended to mix up cursive and printing when I had to handwrite stuff in school. Probably had something to do with either being taught to write by somebody who didn't understand how to teach a left-hander to write. or something.

I use an odd combo of cursive and print.

I'm not at my most alert and focused today.

Obviously, you haven't acted on the results of your own research.

How interesting to see that other people mix up the writing styles too. Huh.

I'm a great admirer of elders who were schooled in "The Palmer Method" (which eerily reminds me of Twin Peaks)...such grace and intention when writing. Makes the communication seem...well...more sophisticated somehow.

It implied that to me, but since I can't imagine writing more than a sentence in ASSCAPS, and I'm entirely normal, can't be, can it?

Ha. I have this vision of all the kids these days writing like architects, since that's who I think of when I think of block printing. And when we had "mechanical drawing" for a quarter in 8th grade, basically the whole class was taken up by learning how to write the alphabet in graph paper. Good times.