Poll: How do you Write?

[9NineBreaker9]

I write with a combination print and cursive. the legibility ranges from fairly nice and readable to a completely jumbled mess.

This, edging more towards the illegible side.

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. <,<

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

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.

 

[Lady Nilstria]

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.

As a male, I've always seen cursive as a bit too..."feminine."

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.

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.

 

[Doctor What]

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!

 

[Zero_ctrl]

A mixture of Cursive and Print when writing by hand.
My cursive is kind of suffering though. It used to be really neat.

On the other hand, I completely absolutely prefer writing on a computer.

 

[sh0tgunenclave]

someone once told me that "no musicians have good handwriting."
I play Bass, Ukulele, and acoustic guitar.
and use a computer to write.

 

[The Cookie Cruncher]

I write mostly non-cursive. But I still remember perfectly how to write cursive. All us kids in Iceland were taught cursive from the get go in first grade. Then when you got to third grade, they stopped thinking about it.

 

[Queen Michael]

Non-cursive. It's easier for me.

 

[Rensenhito]

I try to write very quickly, but it still ends up being pretty choppy. Oh well. At least it's semi-legible. Although I do still envy those who can make letters look like art.

 

[Betancore]

Depends. If I'm in a rush, then I do some half-hearted, illegible version of cursive. Mostly I just print, though. As in non-cursive, not actual printing. For assignments and the like, I type it up.

 

[Cazza]

Print writing. My handwriting in cursive is poor. So is my print but thats readable.

 

[Xelt]

I type if possible, my teacher once told me "Your writing looks as though a spider fell in ink, ran onto your page and has multiple seizures"

 

[Trivun]

Well, when I was a kid my handwriting was appallingly bad. Nowadays it's much better, though. I learned to write in cursive (AKA joined-up writing for those living here in Blighty) at school, and whenever I write anything I use cursive. However, if I'm in a hurry or just jotting down notes or something for myself or something important, I use block capitals because it's even easier to read than my normal writing.

When given a choice though, I prefer to use a computer, ideally. Besides, at least if I make an error on a computer I an just go back and retype it, instead of having to cross out a load of stuff and leave a big mess...

 

[chickenlord]

i'm told i write stangely...they say i write like a lefty...but i use my right hand...i start my letters down then go up...i dont see how its strange but...

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

I've been writing in Cursive and people seem to say it's a lost skill.

The reason they say that is that it largely is becoming one. I read a report recently (which was aimed at providing examples to college professors of what's different about the world their students grew up in compared to what they remember from back in ancient times) which said the vast majority of kids these days aren't even taught it in school anymore. Coincidentally, around that same time I had a conversation with my dad (who's old enough that he's a retired college professor) about handwriting and writing/communication styles in general, and the lack of use of cursive these days came up. From his point of view, it sort of made sense at first that it should still be taught, but when it comes down to it, it's not a terribly useful general skill anymore considering that the vast majority of writing most people do is on a computer or other electronic device these days.

It's not that it's a bad thing to know how to do, but I don't know that it's useful/used enough anymore to be worth the time it takes to teach everyone two different types of handwriting. If people want to learn it, they can and should, but there are probably more productive ways to spend the time it would take up in school. It's been largely useless for me, even, and I originally learned how to type on a typewriter before computers were everywhere, so I had plenty of time to potentially get use out of it (which never really happened) before I went fully electronic.

I don't think it'll ever die out completely, though, because there will always be people who like it for some reason or other. I mean, I write by hand so infrequently these days that I pretty much don't have a writing callus on my finger anymore, but I still learned calligraphy anyway just for fun.

 

[hurfdurp]

My writing has morphed into a mixture of cursive and printing, and is somewhat messy. Someone told me my writing looks like the LOTR script .

 

[Disaster Button]

I swap between cursive and non cursive in the middle of words but if I'm writing an essay I'll use a computer just so I can ensure its neatness.

 

[shwnbob]

I mostly type stuff but I love writing to especially Streetlight Manifesto lyrics.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I don't write. I dictate my thoughts, and swarms of minions brand my very words into the flesh of my enemies!

Or they will do someday. Until then I'm stuck with handwriting so bad it looks like I was having a seizure at the time of writing.