Poll: How do you Write?
- Thread starter Da Chi
- Start date
Recommended Videos
If I'm not typing on my laptop(Which by the way doesn't sounds like much, but spend 30 seconds with the Compaq Presario's keyboard and you'll see) I'm writing in a slightly illegible manner.
I've consciously changed the way I write (putting slashes through 7s and 0s, making tall letters TALL) and I like how it looks now, but a couple years ago my writing was a lot more challenging to read. Printing of course. My cursive is a trainwreck only I can read.
I spend so much time in front of my computer... It's actually my job. When I end up scribbling things on paper, it's non-cursive, and weird.
Computer all the way!
Computer all the way!
Mostly computer, but I keep a journal (Yeah, I said it) so I write in that everyday. Looking back at it, I've noticed I switch between cursive and print. It's strange. Perhaps I have multiple personalities >>
Seriously though, my handwriting is very very very small and often times difficult to read. It resembles Einstein's handwriting [http://www.handwriting.org/main/samples/einstein.htm] though, so that's kinda cool.
Seriously though, my handwriting is very very very small and often times difficult to read. It resembles Einstein's handwriting [http://www.handwriting.org/main/samples/einstein.htm] though, so that's kinda cool.
I'm surprised how many people don't write cursive. In school it was just one of those things that's a given after like 5th grade.
My handwriting hasn't improved since the 3rd grade. That's why I type mostly everything.
What I hate the most about writing in general is that in 3rd grade, my teacher told me that we'd be writing in cursive for the rest of our lives. I was told the same thing in 4th and 5th grade. I haven't written anything in cursive since and in fact have forgotten most of it.
What I hate the most about writing in general is that in 3rd grade, my teacher told me that we'd be writing in cursive for the rest of our lives. I was told the same thing in 4th and 5th grade. I haven't written anything in cursive since and in fact have forgotten most of it.
The only letters that I still know how to write in cursive are the ones that I need to use in my signature. Other than that, I haven't written anything in cursive since 3rd grade.
I have crazy handwriting, but people like it, apparently.
But I type like ab east, and I love the sound and feel of the keys.
But I type like ab east, and I love the sound and feel of the keys.
This, edging more towards the illegible side.oxiclean said:
My writing kind of moves between print and cursive depending on how quickly I'm writing - the faster I write, the more it moves towards cursive and illegibility.
I can't read my own notes half the time. <,<
It's a cross between cursive and non-cursive(which would be Print? i think)
Thats only because when i'm writing something it's with speed and i don't pick up my pencil.
It's pretty messy when i'm not trying, but if i put alittle bit into it, people really like it.
Thats only because when i'm writing something it's with speed and i don't pick up my pencil.
It's pretty messy when i'm not trying, but if i put alittle bit into it, people really like it.
By hand, cursive. Printing is just so tedious and eats up too much space compared so cursive. Though, my R's look like V's and my N's look like U's when I write rapidly in cursive, and sometimes I make one too many loops with the M's and N's, but hey, it's round, cute, and efficient, and I like it. My handwriting is better then my mother's, but then again, she has her cursive down almost to shorthand. (Which is the reason why often times only she can read it.)
Everyone should be able to read cursive. Really. It's cursive. Come on people.
I'm pretty fast with a keyboard too, but unless I'm writing my book, I use a notebook. There's just something so nice and clean about a pencil. In fact, I've used a pencil/pen so much over the years that there's actually a depression on the finger of my right hand where the pencil rests. I'm not joking. My finger is permanently changed. Then again, I'm an artist as well, so that might also have something to do with it.
It's amazing how lovely cursive can be once you've mastered it.
Edit: I have a question of my own. How many of you have actually written letters that you put in the mailbox, like letters to friends and or pen pals? I would bet not too many of you, going by the responses to this thread.
I'd suggest you take up cursive just for the speed it provides. Because you don't take the pen off the paper between letters, you save a lot of time you'd otherwise be using lifting the pen and putting it down again. I've tested it. Cursive is A LOT faster, and generally uses less space.
In conclusion: Cursive is practical. I like practicality.
Everyone should be able to read cursive. Really. It's cursive. Come on people.
I'm pretty fast with a keyboard too, but unless I'm writing my book, I use a notebook. There's just something so nice and clean about a pencil. In fact, I've used a pencil/pen so much over the years that there's actually a depression on the finger of my right hand where the pencil rests. I'm not joking. My finger is permanently changed. Then again, I'm an artist as well, so that might also have something to do with it.
It's amazing how lovely cursive can be once you've mastered it.
Edit: I have a question of my own. How many of you have actually written letters that you put in the mailbox, like letters to friends and or pen pals? I would bet not too many of you, going by the responses to this thread.
Eh, some women do go a little overboard with their cursive. My cursive is round because that's faster and more efficient then even momentarily pausing the stroke, but you have a point. It can be.Doctor What said:
I'd suggest you take up cursive just for the speed it provides. Because you don't take the pen off the paper between letters, you save a lot of time you'd otherwise be using lifting the pen and putting it down again. I've tested it. Cursive is A LOT faster, and generally uses less space.
In conclusion: Cursive is practical. I like practicality.
As a male, I've always seen cursive as a bit too..."feminine." My masculine hands have craved the freedom and independence from the educational and journalistic constraints that have been pushed down upon me by this matriarchal shadow society. My own act of terrorism on this mindset that has been planted into our brains is to never write in cursive and let my penmanship show that my freedom to write however I please can be just as majestic as any calligraphy.
And I didn't even use a word book for my good spelling!
And I didn't even use a word book for my good spelling!
