Thread: how's your handwriting

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Being a professional tattoo artist I've learned fonts in everything from script to circus type lettering. Pen it on the skin and ink it. Thus my handwriting has been polished but in the occasional instance where I might put pen to paper for something other than a tattoo, I'm barely legible.

Jim,do you ever take Pics of your work? would love to see it.My Dad had fantastic tats,most done during WW2.
I Had Two done by tuttle in San Francisco,both removed in the early 70s,(pre laser
My hand writing is so bad I cannot even read it.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Victorian cursive is actually quite hard to learn effectively for children with problems such as dyslexia. I can say this as my daughter is dyslexic amongst other things.

I don't know enough about dyslexia, other than soundbites, to speak on it. I hope that your daughter is being properly accommodated.

Are you of the age where left handed writing was not allowed? My father was a lefty, and I have very strong tendencies that way, wear my watch on my right hand, remember being actively told that I must write using my right hand.

Originally Posted by Phrank

I don't know enough about dyslexia, other than soundbites, to speak on it. I hope that your daughter is being properly accommodated.

Are you of the age where left handed writing was not allowed? My father was a lefty, and I have very strong tendencies that way, wear my watch on my right hand, remember being actively told that I must write using my right hand.

I am a cusp child I learned both imperial and metric, I thought imperial was ridiculous, but it is useful in my current job, as I work with equipment from the us, (amazingly American metric is the same as.everyone else's ). I also was.allowed to use my left hand for handwriting, I like seeing older leftys. There are a few at work, and I recently bought a house from one.
I was working with a crew of 11 other guys last year and 8 of us were leftys. At work I have to be mindful as wrong handers twist their cables in the oposite direction to us so if I come in after one I have to ensure I twist clockwise.
Imogen is getting what she needs through special lessons and recently home schooling which my wife Karen is doing a great job of. We are still very active in the school community that imogen used to attend, in fact the girls have gone camping with the school this weekend.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I am a cusp child I learned both imperial and metric, I thought imperial was ridiculous, but it is useful in my current job, as I work with equipment from the us, (amazingly American metric is the same as.everyone else's ). I also was.allowed to use my left hand for handwriting, I like seeing older leftys. There are a few at work, and I recently bought a house from one.
I was working with a crew of 11 other guys last year and 8 of us were leftys. At work I have to be mindful as wrong handers twist their cables in the oposite direction to us so if I come in after one I have to ensure I twist clockwise.
Imogen is getting what she needs through special lessons and recently home schooling which my wife Karen is doing a great job of. We are still very active in the school community that imogen used to attend, in fact the girls have gone camping with the school this weekend.

Imogen...what a beautiful name!

I remember being in an early grade, when the switch to metric happened, metric still makes more sense to me, 1, 10, 100, 1000 etc..Still to this day though, there's lots of feet, yards, and miles in the active vocabulary.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Imogen...what a beautiful name!

I remember being in an early grade, when the switch to metric happened, metric still makes more sense to me, 1, 10, 100, 1000 etc..Still to this day though, there's lots of feet, yards, and miles in the active vocabulary.

Thank you, it means in the.image of the mother, which is.somewhat ironic as she has blonde hair and blue eyes like me, and the poor girl has inherited a lot of.my.traits.
Yes in timber and razors particularly imperial is popular.

I forced myself into disciplined writing when paper was the common medium of the hospital, and took some pride that people could read my notes. Now that the electronics have taken over I'm glad I took a typing (not keyboarding) class in high school.

But, when I went to med school my handwriting went downhill. No, there was no official class for crappy doctor handwriting but it happened to several of us. The pressure of note taking and then no time to return to a disciplined form of writing I think. Still, I force myself to use a fountain pen, and maintain it, when I have to write signatures. It brings me into the moment, to pay close attention to one small detail and reassure myself I have not lost a former skill.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Thank you, it means in the.image of the mother, which is.somewhat ironic as she has blonde hair and blue eyes like me, and the poor girl has inherited a lot of.my.traits.
Yes in timber and razors particularly imperial is popular.

I would've thought it'd be "poplar"

My handwriting got worse, if possible, when I was in law school also. I can relate to the intense note-taking pressure. Most of my classmates took notes on their laptops, but I just don't learn well that way. Combine that with my use of the wrist to write and having had surgery to that wrist, well, it's just a bad combo.

Funny

A few years back I realized that from being in the finance side of the Auto Biz that I had "Block Printed" for so long on applications etc: I could no longer write, I mean I had to really think about how to even form the letters like we had been taught back in 2nd grade..
So I went and bought a nice leather bound Journal, and a couple of actual Fountain pens and began keeping a daily journal, not really to capture my thoughts but to practice real handwriting..
It took months but I actually feel it is acceptable again

If you step back and look at the page as a whole, taking more or less an impressionistic approach, my handwriting looks great. But if you have to actually read it, it's a bit of a disaster. I like Glen's idea and may start doing that as well. 99% of the time when I put pen to paper, it is a rushed situation. Taking notes in a meeting, things like that. And when I write for pleasure it tends to be on a computer. So I really like the idea of writing longhand just for the pleasure of it and to improve my penmanship. I'm totally stealing that idea.

I can at least take solace in that it still is better than that of Thomas Aquinas. At any given time, there are a handful of scholars in the world who can read his writing with any kind of speed. I have spent far more time than is reasonable reading mediaeval manuscripts, but his hand still baffles me. So this is for everyone who needs a bit of reassurance that it could be worse.