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10-12-2006, 08:00 AM | #16 |
...you smell something?
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I will mix my cursive with some printed letters, but I absolutely cannot STAND to see words written in lowercase and sprinkled with uppercase letters here and there!
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10-12-2006, 08:05 AM | #17 | |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Funny thing: we were going through an audit about a year ago. The auditor was looking at files I wrote in when I had a double compound fracture of my right arm, so I was writing everything left-handed. She wondered when we had hired a 6 year old!
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10-12-2006, 08:58 AM | #18 |
dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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I say God bless computers. My handwriting sucked from the very beginning and hasn't gotten any better. In fact it has gotten worse. I have to write things in block letters because I can't read my cursive later on.
My typing, however, is pretty good.
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10-12-2006, 04:35 PM | #19 |
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We don't know how to churn butter or make rope anymore either. (well I do, but I'm a freak)
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10-12-2006, 06:00 PM | #20 | |
Read? I only know how to write.
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10-12-2006, 06:11 PM | #21 |
Makes some feel uncomfortable
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I print. Like a seven year old. But you can read it, at least.
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10-12-2006, 06:32 PM | #22 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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I write my lowercase a's like a print font, with that little hook on top.
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10-12-2006, 07:42 PM | #23 | |||
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That said, whether you write cursive or print, the ability to write longhand quickly and reasonably legibly is clearly an advantage in many post high school situations. Which, of course, is the point of cursive. When it is done right it is basically sped up printing." Now that I live in a foreign country, I always carry a little pocket notebook and jot down info--language, names, etc.--in a fraction of the time it would take to do it electronically on some thingamabob. Whoever said above that they missed those old boxes of letters reminded me of my grandfather's beautiful script. He was taught the old Palmer method in the early 1900's and it was just amazing to look at and read. Probably pretty slow but, combined with his flowery prose, he got a lot of chicks writing like that. I guess I should say "thank God". Quote:
It's interesting to note the fascination that the people here, especially, have with their own handwriting. Whether y'all (sorry, I'm "Southern") like or dislike your handwriting is not so important as the fact that there is an interest, however keen or morbid, with the finished example of the complex (hand, eye and brainwise) task of producing an imprint of one's individuality for the world to see. I mean, there's no such thing as "graphoanalysis" on a keyboard-produced document. The fact that people who are more interested in self-expression--yes, I mean right here in the Cellar-- have more of an interest in the life or death of Cursive than those who know the minutiae of shallow pop-culture, i.e., who so-and-so celeb is dating or just a wee bit too sports-crazy (watching, not doing) gleaned from too much f****** television. In several posts above, people talk about the individuality of each person's handwriting--no two are alike, right? and indeed mood-dependent--and a certain sublament about the loss of this (ahem) Window to the Soul. I type blazingly fast without a singtnle maisthtke and I guess we have to in order to communicate so much to so many in the course of the day. Still, I hope the current trend of losing the art of Cursive will slow, then stop, then start creeping back...hopefully. And, finally: Quote:
oh, yeah, interesting article: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/...709225,00.html Okay, I'll shut up now. <collective sigh of relief> |
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10-17-2006, 10:31 PM | #24 | |
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I'll have you know that I write in all capitals. That's right. I have permanent capslock on. My shift key is glued down. Well, it got stuck a few years back, actually, in a freak accident involving a overzealous jelly doughnut. I also write with a Pilot Precise V5. That's got a super-fine tip for super-small writing when I need to. My text tends to vary in size and "roughness" of letters. I can be super neat and nice with uniform spacing and clean lines, or I can just stab the paper four times to make an "E" and be done with it. I've got a moleskine notebook, one of those small pocket-size ones, and I draw little comics in it. They're stick figure, sure, but I detail everything but the people. That's mostly because I just can't draw people too terribly well. Anyway, the point of this is that I draw out something I could easily create on the computer and I handwrite all of the dialogue in order to impart a piece of myself into it. I write and draw to clear my head and typing things out just doesn't do it as well for me. Typing things out helps to sort out my thoughts, but it doesn't let me clear my mind. Anyway, I'm glad cursive has gone out the window. I actually had to learn that crap just so I could get my state ID. Apparently the government doesn't like when you neatly print your name in the space where it says, "Signature here" and government employees seem to completely lose any semblance of intelligent thought when you try to explain to them that that IS your signature. They then tell you that "That's your name printed. It is not a signature." and you respond by explaining that your signature IS your name printed because that is how you ALWAYS write your name. Maybe I can finally stop having to remember how to spell my goddess forsaken last name in freaking cursive every time I need to "officially sign" something. |
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10-17-2006, 11:48 PM | #25 | |
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lol that's funny Shawnee Did you tell her to kiss your 6 yr old writing ass? (maybe that's why I ALWAYS get in trouble for my attitude?) I write with my left hand when i'm bored at work or in class doodling...i always try and get myself to be ambi or something, and then i get annoyed because it takes so long to write anything with my left hand. It's fun to write with your non dominant hand though...it's always good for a laugh.
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10-19-2006, 12:14 AM | #26 |
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Welcome to the Cellar, Zombie.
I do the capitals only printing , rather than cursive, also. Otherwise it's garbage.
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10-28-2006, 04:38 PM | #27 |
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My writing always throws people for a loop. I actually used to have horrible handwriting until 6th grade. I've written the same way since then with a few changes here and there...19 years now. It looks like a girl's, but it's always legible...and it's me.
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