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.
I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think that you might be.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
beekaytee - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:56 am PDT #3102 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
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....
Glamcookie - Oct 11, 2006 8:35:12 am PDT #3107 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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P.M. Marc - Oct 11, 2006 8:35:23 am PDT #3108 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm a cursive writer since before I was officially taught to do it, and I find it almost impossible not to use cursive (as I keep rediscovering every time I have to fill out forms by hand).
We are as one. I hate printing, and my printing's a royal mess. Filling out college applications sucked.
Also, printing is slow.
Cashmere - Oct 11, 2006 8:35:26 am PDT #3109 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
My handwriting is awful. Like serial killer bad.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2006 8:39:07 am PDT #3110 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait--so printers, are you really talking about caps, or is it circle and stick?
I don't think we were ever taught to write that way, but that might have everything to do with being old school Commonwealth. We had writing class up until I was ten or so. They were quite ferocious about it.
I like writing. I currently enjoy making sure my cursive is consistent, matching general rules from school. I changed my handwriting a number of times in school--size, slant, choice of letter forms, and sometimes it makes my hurried notes look like blotter barf.
So I'm going back and separating each out. Making sure I put loops in my cursive ells, but not on the tees. Making sure this one form of a only goes with a specific form of e.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:40:29 am PDT #3111 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wait--so printers, are you really talking about caps, or is it circle and stick?
Neither, in my case. Although, looking at my notebook, it looks more like cursive than I would have thought. Just really crappy cursive.