My handwriting is awful. Like serial killer bad.
It's a real burden being right so often.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Cashmere - Oct 11, 2006 8:35:26 am PDT #3109 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
§ 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.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 11, 2006 8:40:57 am PDT #3112 of 10001
What is even happening?
Somewhat related: Make your own font. Out of your own handwriting. Seems kinda' cool yet pointless to me....
Cool is pointy.
Amy - Oct 11, 2006 8:41:49 am PDT #3113 of 10001
Because books.
Wait--so printers, are you really talking about caps, or is it circle and stick?
Not caps, no. But not quite circle and stick either. Kind of a mutated version of script letters.
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2006 8:42:38 am PDT #3114 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.
Cool is pointy.
I guess I'm thinking that it's cool, yet something I would never use.
Sue - Oct 11, 2006 8:43:00 am PDT #3115 of 10001
hip deep in pie
My handwriting is awful. Like serial killer bad.
Me too. And it's just gotten worse. To top it off, when I write I tend to eliminate letters and pesky vowels from words. Between the script and the shorthand, things are indecipherable--even to me.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:49:53 am PDT #3116 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have to say, I was shocked at how bad my big-boss's handwriting is, because she's so very precise in most ways -- her speech, her deportment, etc. But her handwriting is for shit. Makes me wonder why.
bon bon - Oct 11, 2006 8:56:01 am PDT #3117 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm not exactly decrying the decline of the nation's youth because they don't teach handwriting anymore, but it makes me sad to see young men's handwriting that looks the same as a 12-year-old's script. [ETA: and I see that far more often than bad female handwriting.] I was always told that my brother's childish handwriting was because it's harder for boys to learn fine motor control, and since they don't even teach it anymore, many don't get better. But maybe that's baseless sexism.
Shari_H - Oct 11, 2006 8:56:07 am PDT #3118 of 10001
Keep breathing!
Somewhat related: Make your own font. Out of your own handwriting. Seems kinda' cool yet pointless to me....
Cool and not pointless. We did something similar for our director at work a few years ago. Now when we send out thousands of renewal letters, his actual signature is in the Word doc when we print them and he's grateful he didn't actually have to sign them. IJS