I've been practicing and now I'. No longer embarrassed by my handwriting. How about you? How do you feel about the value of good handwriting?
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I've been practicing and now I'. No longer embarrassed by my handwriting. How about you? How do you feel about the value of good handwriting?
Your handwriting is not bad at all very legible!
Your picture posting is a little off!
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These new fandangled machines confuse me a little. I'm proud of myself that I was able to figure out how to post a picture at all
My hand writing changes with my mood. It's not consistent, although some thing's I seem to be able to repeat. Not sure why it is so horrible, I mean I've been practicing all my life ;). Now my Dad's is very precise, and neat, guess I didn't get the hand writing gene....
My handwriting is terrible. It looks like a three year old took dictation for me.
I would love to improve it, but haven't really ever found a good way to practice.
We had some Civil War era letters that contained amazing handwriting. (I have since sold them) I found my favorite capital and lowercase letters of every letter of the alphabet and retaught myself to write. Just like in first grade. I felt forced to do this because I could not read my own handwriting and was forced to print which in most situations, like taking notes, is too slow.
After a while I got to a point where people would recognize my writing and ask me to do invitation cards for them. Fast track about 3 years and I've digressed a bit and am due for a first grade level practice recharge. Write out page after page of AAAAAA's, BBBBBBB's, .... yyyyyy's, zzzzzz's.
Besides identifying what an ideal letter style is for you and practicing, it's also important to use your SHOULDER muscles instead of your wrist muscles when writing- almost as if your wrist and hand were in a cast. This is a super hint I received from an established calligrapher.
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.
I am a lefty, who, if left.to his own devices will print in a combination of block capital and lower case as the whim takes me.
I have to hand write some stuff for work, but if I don't concentrate it.is basically illegible after a couple of.days (when I can't.even remember the gist of what I meant). So now I try really hard to print carefully in Lower case.
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. :shrug:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
Jim,do you ever take Pics of your work? would love to see it.My Dad had fantastic tats,most done during WW2.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
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.
I don't know enough about dyslexia, other than soundbites, to speak on it. I hope that your daughter is being properly accommodated.Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
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.
I would've thought it'd be "poplar" :oQuote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
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.
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So am I. I went to school and learned cursive script in the 1950s when dyslexia wasn't even defined AFAIK. Matter of fact for years I used to say displexia ...... thinking I was correct, until a friend pulled my coat. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Did you hear the one about the dyslexic tattoo artist? He gave the customer a tattoo!Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
Long as he charged him. Lyle Tuttle says that the unpardonable sin is not charging enough for a tattoo ....... :chapeauQuote:
Originally Posted by JBHoren
I had a similar issue. I spent years working in the security industry and written reports had to be printed in the first instance, and had to be legible for use in a court of law. So everything I wrote was block capitals. I. too have had to retrain my brain and may hand in writing cursive as well as lower case print. I can tell you it has been a struggle, but I did get there. I'm going to have to post a picture of my handwriting when I find a few moments to do so. I'm proud of it, even though it isn't that great, but I know how far it's come.Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
Mick
I believe I have the worse handwriting of all members in this forum.
Sometimes, I find even myself unable to read something that I wrote moths earlier. :aargh:
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lol, that isn't the worst I have seen. One time we were trying to figure out what this doctor ordered to put it in the computer. We had to call the doctor back to the floor, and he wrote a new order because he didn't know what it was lol. Mine is like this.Attachment 145980
Slur, your hand writing is acceptable and I could easily read it.
I don't even dare post mine! It's far more worse than yours!
I am with you, lefty and my handwriting is horrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
I used to take crime scene notes and then have to go directly back to type them because the next day I could not understand them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slur
My folks went as far as private lessons for my hand writing. Didn't take.
Like Ed I am a lefty and my writing is a lot like his as well. I combined my printing style with that of my late stepfather who learned draftsmens style printing. I'm okay with it, however I wish I could write well, especially now that the engineered school system is no longer teaching it. I may try and follow Glens example and get a journal to practice in. Really saddens me that our society is dumbing down with writing and reading and grammar and manners and.............oh bother.
Oh bother indeed, but what can we do but sit down with a nice tea and hot, buttered crumpets and let the worries of the world wash over us like a tide of misfortune that will eventually receed away from us provided we can hold firm like rocks well bedded in the earth, and not get dragged back into the ocean of dissapointment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
Lefties rule !!!!!
I am starting a club for lefties, give me 10 mins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mvcrash
Done it, it's called "lefties only - no wrong handers ok". Seriously no right handers please :)Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Im in, great idea!Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Here catch this ball!Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin103
Now be honest which hand did you put up?
I think I need to have some sort of.vetting process :)
Im the real deal Ed,been smearing ink for a long time....Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
I think I just heard a gong being hit somewhere ?!Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Well duh !!:rofl2: That's why everyone fears us so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mvcrash
This is a good inspirational thread +1.:)
It certainly inspired me write a poemy thing of sorts and start a club, it is real - go and see :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
