Thread: how's your handwriting

If i know how to practice to better handwriting id do it

I practice by writing to my long suffering pen pals.

Just find a 'font' you like the look of, cursive or print, and try your best to copy it.


Mick

You know my hand writein is horid my cursive is illegable but my calligraphy is awsome i favor old world like irish and german fount

Well, my handwriting is legible and neat (I think), but not fancy or aesthetically pleasing. When I have more time it looks better, but in the heat of the moment it's fairly basic.

Here's an example of some notes I made during a lecture, which I scanned and uploaded for the students afterwards. It's fairly typical of how I write "on the fly" as it were. Apologies for the content - boring maths stuff.

lme2.pdf

James.

I'm a retired sea-going tug captain. One of the things required of me is to leave night orders. Like others, my penmanship changes w/my mood which isn't always good, my penmanship is always, however, legible. Imagine my surprise when I shoved the night orders book under the nose of one of my second mates, a graduate of the federal merchant marine academy, and he couldn't read it. It was written in cursive.

I was raised in a time where the cursive alphabet was displayed above the blackboard in our class room and penmanship was a graded report card item. Societies advance is not always forward.

Originally Posted by Phrank

The fact that schools now don't teach cursive writing baffles me....all the kids who can't sign their name. They can print it, but they have no ability to sign their name, which causes legal problems with official documents.

Let alone being able to read cursive writing.

Yup, social engineer the classroom, the "everyone wins", "everyone get's a window seat", mentality, while they fail at one of the most important fundamentals, simple writing.

After going back through this thread I got to this post and realized that some of the younger guys at work just do a weird symbol type thing in lieu of an actual signature.

Awful with anything but a fountain pen, had to teach myself as irish school taught it very badly. According to them you cannot join such letters as Z and F. Which is pure B'S.

I can't think of a single word that contains "zf" as consecutive letters

Not consecutive, they taught you couldn't join them to the next letter (no matter which) at all.