I print, when I'm actually trying to be legible. Scrawled notes involve something like cursive, but much harder to read. My printing is much nicer.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Oct 11, 2006 8:19:36 am PDT #3097 of 10001
Vortex - Oct 11, 2006 8:19:44 am PDT #3098 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I have very nice handwriting as well, thanks to Mrs. Cune, my second grade teacher. She would make me stay in at recess and rewrite my work. I would hand it in early, and she would accept it, then wait until it was time to go to recess and call me up to rewrite. I learned quickly.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:20:05 am PDT #3099 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
[link] Huh. D'Nealian looks more like many of us are saying we're now doing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:32 am PDT #3100 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
This just seems weird to me. Only 15% of the next batch of college freshmen use cursive? Wow.
Doesn't seem weird to me. I HATED writing anything longer than my name in cursive, and practiced legible printing in school until I got my speed to equal writing in longhand.
sarameg - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:41 am PDT #3101 of 10001
D'Nealian was what we were taught up to second/third where they transitioned to cursive.
beekaytee - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:56 am PDT #3102 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
That's exactly it! Folk get taught how to do that?
I think I started doing it accidentally, right about 5 minutes after I stopped dotting my i's with little flowers in middle school.
Vortex - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:57 am PDT #3103 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
flea is me.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:24:57 am PDT #3104 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I definitely got the old circle-and-stick, which I could tell was stupid even at the time.
Aims - Oct 11, 2006 8:26:58 am PDT #3105 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My grandfather's handwriting was stunning. He printed a lot, but when he wrote in cursive, it was beautiful.
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2006 8:31:30 am PDT #3106 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Somewhat related: Make your own font. Out of your own handwriting. Seems kinda' cool yet pointless to me....