Handwriting Thread

Following on from the Technology Killed Handwriting thread, I thought I'd start one to see how Dwellars look away from their keyboards.

I've started the ball rolling below, and bizarrely it feels more personal than taking a picture of my nipple!

My text is simply the front page of today's Guardian and isn't intended to make a statement.

i got wood

You need to fix the white balance on your camera. It screwed the color all up--see how the paper looks purple instead of white?

The only handy exhibits that didn't have incriminating personal info. (I wanted to post something I had actually done, not something specially written for the purpose.)

hee hee

This makes me want to find my old college notebooks. My nickname in college was 'Nappyqueen'. I don't think I was awake for a full 50 min lecture, ever. My notes are great. Nice neat semi-outline style, getiing messier, messier, then ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz........



{Blank space to fill in later from friends notes}




Nice neat semi-outline style, getiing messier, messier, then ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz........






Ha HA HA!!! I will *so* look for some examples. It's great.

I like Ut's idea. but you gotta have the knuts to zap all posts with text typed in. like this one

I second the notion that all non-hand-written posts (like this one also) get zzzapped!

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This is from one of my notes in lecture:

I have these little buggers everywhere

SteveDallas wrote:

You need to fix the white balance on your camera. It screwed the color all up--see how the paper looks purple instead of white?

I assumed that was something to do with the lighting in here. But any suggestions would be welcome....?

I was being a smartass--what a suprise, eh? I assumed the paper was actually purple. Did you use a flash to take the picture?

Fluorescent lights, perhaps?

OK I give up - HELP I have the damn pick on my phone - how do I get it here

Someone mentioned they took a picture with their phone and had to send it to themselves to get it on their PC.
That said, I haven't a clue. :D

I had to send it to my email address from my phone. From there, you're good to go.

my phone tells me i have to set up email. but i have no clue how to complete the set up. cingular. and i have a razr. dns #'s? they should set this shit up for you at the store.

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Gray"](I just wanted to add that UT has the most wonderful handwriting... so neat, and I love the style. I don't have a camera though so I can't post a picture of my handwriting... I will borrow my SO's when I get home later.)[/COLOR][/SIZE]

I don't recall having to set up email for my RAZR. Worked out of the gate. I send myself pics all the time to free up space on the phone.

mine

Is that a Hello Kitty notebook?

dude, post some of yours.

sycamore wrote:

Is that a Hello Kitty notebook?

No, actually, it's not, but I do have a Hello Kitty Journal around here somewhere that I got from a clearance rack.

It's a secretary's steno book (you might be able to see the Gregg Shorthand ruling with the line down the center in the pic).

I think I should point out that nobody will be able to duplicate my signature by copying from my handwriting.

It's a bit scrawly, for professional reasons.

I used to have a readable signature. Then I needed to have a messy one so patients can't figure out my full name from the warrants.

I wote fast and I'm way tired, but it is a pretty accurate rep.

:0

I can read everyone's, except foot3 :p

UT - you have an awesome writing style.

I read doctor handwriting all the time, so everybody here's is a piece of cake.

I sent this to myself friday and it only took two freakin days to get it.

I quit - I get the damn thing and now its so small even I can't read it - OH well it wasn't really worth reading anyway

SteveDallas wrote:

I was being a smartass--what a suprise, eh? I assumed the paper was actually purple. Did you use a flash to take the picture?

(cropped it a bit close, but I still think it's legible)

;)

Notes from today. Yeah I know.

OMG...it's worse than mine.

There's no doubt about it...

...and spelling, too, now that I look at it. Sheesh.

Buster, were you holding the pencil in your butt cheeks? cuz if you were, that's great hand....asswriting.

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busterb wrote:

Notes from today. Yeah I know.

Buster, my grandfather's handwriting looked exactly like that. It's nice to see it again

glatt, no offense but no one wants to look at you and think "I'm old enough to be his grandfather"

I can't find that thread where I compared you to John Sayles (or maybe his nephew. I realized that my mental image of him is 20 years old and what google gives you is more recent. He has a cameo as the motorcycle cop in "something wild") but you gotta see some of his films. OMG.
1) Brother from another planet.
2) Matewan
3) Passion fish
4) Eight men out
5) City of hope
6) Lone star
7) Men with guns

Sorry Elspode, I beat you having the worst handwriting.

A page from my notebook

OK I'll try again

Actually, Hipp, our cursives are rather similar. That disturbs me.

OK

The only thing that surprises me about your handwriting is that you draw neither a little circle nor a little heart over a lower case "i."

I have to find a smaple of SWMBO's handwriting it is entirely illegible.

She was the one with the red and the checkboxes, right?

Good memory, yeah. That was meant to be legible. Let me scout around afor one of her real gems.

In the meantime, maybe ducksnuts can read this since I wasn't hammered when I wrote it.

You must have been really wistful for that knothole there, foot.

All in a days work. ;) Some of the knotholes have little people living in them, they tell me things...

They tell you things about dunkin' dickie and dickie dunkin'? :)

I can read that fine foot3 :D and I remember your SO's handwriting lol

My current grocery list. It's practically the only thing I ever write by hand.

Interesting grocery list, for sure. Can I come over for dinner?

Speaking of grocery lists ... who else here is tainted by Happy Days with respect to writing one particular item on the list?

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If "basic" is code for "legible" then I agree that your handwriting is basic.

wolf wrote:

Interesting grocery list, for sure. Can I come over for dinner?

:) My lists are usually stuff I've just run out of (or are running low on), instead of planning for specific future meals. I keep a pretty well-stocked kitchen. Last night was ribs and potato salad, which accounts for finishing off the barbecue sauce, honey, and mayo. The other things I ran out of while making goulash for the first time on Sunday (it only turned out so-so, probably won't make it again.)

Clodfobble wrote:

My current grocery list. It's practically the only thing I ever write by hand.

Chicken Booth? Don't they have cell phones?

Elspode wrote:

Actually, Hipp, our cursives are rather similar. That disturbs me.

Indeed, quite frightening....

I think the handwriting samples posted here are actually neat. The males I know don't write like that.

I'm too ashamed to post my own ! :(

plus there is a way to find out certain personality traits through handwriting. Not 100% accurate, though. I got this from a book.

Generally large writing :
Ambitious
Writer tends to 'think big'. Found in the writing of people in show business.

Small writing :
Modesty, feelings of inferiority.
Writer may be objective and scientific.

Slanting to the left :
Introvert, quiet, retiring and shy.
Writer tend to hide emotions and set up a passive attitude.

Slanting to the right :
Extrovert, open, easygoing, outgoing.
They tend to mix well with people.

Narrow writing :
Depicts discipline.
Writer can be inhibited. They may also be mean and restricted in view.

Broad writing :
Usually unhibited, like to travel.
Writer may be rash and uncontrolled.

Wide spaces between words :
Writer does not mix easily in company. He/she can be stand-offish and solitary.

Narrow spacing :
Denotes a gregarious personality. Suggests that the writer chooses friends indiscriminately.

Wow. What a long post.

Some alternate Traits
Generally large writing: Poor eyesight
Small writing: Conservationistic - Doesn't want to waste space
Slanting to the left: Lefty taught to write by a righty
Slanting to the right: Voted for Bush
Narrow writing: Narrow minded
Broad writing: Uh, isn't this just a female?
Wide spaces between words: Bow legged
Narrow spacing: see narrow writing

:notworthy

yesman>
I have to agree with you

Below find a sample of how I write for OTHER people. I wrote the note using the post-it pad on their desk, and I knew I had to fit my message in the space available. If I'd had a larger page handy, the writing would have been up to two times larger. I selected it after having written it, since I wanted to post something representative that wasn't written with posting here in mind.

Our local paper had a handwriting analysist on staff, so I sent in a sample of mine. All I could find to write with was a thick, blacker than coal, permanent marker. I was excited to see a reply from her in her column until I read... "the amount of pressure you place on the pen tells me that you hold onto past grievances for a life time." :)

This site offers a free self-analysis section which although basic, is quite interesting. It does advertise a graphology course, but I've let my spam filter take care of that (heheheh)

Some extracts from mine that I found interesting/ relevant:

SG has a very unusual lower zone y loop. If the data input is correct, SG's y or g is large and opens up to the left side of the page. This is not a common trait, but the implications are very interesting. As you begin to study handwriting analysis, you will learn any loop indicates imagination. This lower loop indicates the amount of imagination SG has regarding sex and physical things. So, her lower zone stroke is large, so her sexual imagination is large and open. Furthermore, because the loop is incomplete and extends to the left, this indicates a particular fascination with certain aspects of sexuality that have not been fulfilled, yet. In a nutshell, SG is open to some very new ideas sexually and is willing to try anything once.

Yup!

SG's true self-image is unreasonably low. Someone once told SG that she wasn't a great and beautiful person, and she believed them. SG also has a fear that she might fail if she takes large risks. Therefore she resists setting her goals too high, risking failure. She doesn't have the internal confidence that frees her to take risks and chance failure. This is perhaps the biggest single barrier to happiness people not believing in and loving themselves. SG is an example of someone living with a low self-image.

Sigh

SG is a cumulative and procedural thinker. She likes to have all the facts before making a decision. She thinks or creates much like a brick mason, stacking fact upon fact... Like that brick wall, SG learns faster through visual demonstration than through quick verbal instructions... In an argument, she often loses to rapid thinking people because she is thinking thirty minutes later about what she should have said... She may learn new ideas at a slower pace than other "less detailed" people, but once she gets it, she can handle repetition. Some people hate jobs with too much repetition, she can handle it better than most.

The above is based on how I write my "m"s. It is wrong.

SG has an over-awareness of self. She often feels self-conscious. She fears ridicule, therefore she is careful not to place herself in a position to receive any ridicule. She wonders what people will think if she acts in a certain manner. When encountering a new group of people, SG may stay on the sidelines until she has the people categorized, or she may behave in a "positive attention getting" manner to assure people think good thoughts about her from the start.

Mostly true.

Most people with a severe leftward slant have some type of childhood trauma they have yet to work through… she has issues with trust and it is likely rooted in childhood. The first time someone angers SG, she probably will not say anything to that person at that time. However, she will mentally keep track of everything this person does wrong to her until she cannot hold her emotions inside any longer. Then; Boom! SG will cloud up and rain all over them.

There was a lot based on my slight left slanting uprights that simply wasn't true. The bit above is, but based more on my dislike of conflict than being introverted.

SG:

Would you analyze mine from the sample pictured above? Please?

You can only do it using "handwriting" (what we call joined-up and I think you call cursive). Printing just doesn't match the samples that you choose from I'm afraid. I'm happy to go through the test for you if you post something clear enough for me to read though.

I would love to do that, but I don't write cursive (or joined-up). When I was learning it in school I was told I wouldn't really need it so I didn't pay attention in class. I did just enough to get me by, and now I have basically forgotten how.

I found that when I print quickly, it sort of morphs into its own special form of cursive, which was good enough for their test (I did it awhile back when a friend sent me to the site.) However, be advised that they will send you spam everyday for the rest of your life.

From Sundae Girl's link;

Here are the simple instructions.
1. Find a handwritten cursive sample of handwriting of yourself or a friend. A signature only is not enough writing to be accurate, you need at least one full paragraph with all the letters demonstrated at least once. If you do not have a handwriting sample, simply copy this sentence to use as your sample. The more writing you have, the better the results.


Want to Learn More?

Learn To Analyze Handwriting Yourself via Handwriting University's Audio & Video Home Study Course.
I saw the purple people eater say, "You and your silly reading monkey do not go home from the zoo!." It was the strangest day. I didn't know people eaters could talk so well. At least that silly monkey was reading a good book.
- My signature



2. Please use cursive (longhand) writing as the research used to build this program is not designed to analyze block printing or mostly printing. If you print, do yourself a favor and copy the above sentence once in print and once in your best cursive. And, if you only print, you might have to consult professional analyst to get totally accurate results.

3. Support. Once you have completed your analysis, feel free to visit our customer support page to create a new analysis or read your analysis again and again using our customer log-in page.

4. The Questions. When answering the questions, if none of the handwriting samples match your writing PERFECTLY, choose none-of-the above to get better results. As you know, there are thousands of variations of strokes and lettetrs. In order to make the test fast and accurate, we only chose the most popular variations. So, don't hesitate to choose none-of-the above or both, if it applies. It is common to have handwriting with inconsistent letter formations... just more personality issues to analyze!

5. Full Page. When you get to the questions about margins and spacing, skip this question unless you are using a full handwritten page of writing (like a long multi-page letter). Otherwise, your results will be less accurate.Thanks and enjoy the analysis. We are keeping it free for a limited time, so tell your friends today.

And from McAfee the warning below, but if you don't download or give them your email address, it shouldn't be a problem. ;)

Unless they've changed the site since I went there, you have to give them your email to get your results.

Have to set up a Gmail account for such activities. :D
Usually McAfee says so, if they got inundated with spam from a site.

I've got 97 invites - no waiting ;)

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Have to set up a Gmail account for such activities.

What's really sad is when you have to give your "spam" email address to certain relatives because they send you endless retarded forwards and you're too polite to tell them how annoying it is.

Clodfobble;303986 wrote:

What's really sad is when you have to give your "spam" email address to certain relatives because they send you endless retarded forwards and you're too polite to tell them how annoying it is.

My dad would send me these 5 megabyte emails which consisted of a 28k email which had been copied and quoted and attached to itself until it became beached on my inbox.

lol - my mom does that too!

Har! I forgot about this thread, when I got my camera working:) Any excuse to use it now I'm afraid :P

Here's a couple of examples of my notetaking.

DanaC;304063 wrote:

Har! I forgot about this thread, when I got my camera working:) Any excuse to use it now I'm afraid :P

I got my camera in June 2005. I'm not over that stage yet!

footfootfoot;304008 wrote:

My dad would send me these 5 megabyte emails which consisted of a 28k email which had been copied and quoted and attached to itself until it became beached on my inbox.

Sounds like it's been through aol, aka bloat central. :rolleyes:
When I get one of those, that's some silly hoax, I....
1- turn off "add people I reply to address book".
2- attach Snopes link saying it's a hoax.
3- reply to all

I always forget step 1. I have a lot of mysterious strangers in my harvested address book.

And then people wonder why I have almost a dozen different email accounts.

BMUP

Okay-doke.
As per the text below, I've been having to think about my handwriting quite a bit recently.

Can you even see this? (Compressing for web pages makes it impossible to see...sorry about big pic.)

Let me try one with ink. I prefer pencil.

Stupid camera phone.

Blurry, but I could read it all...

Sundae, you should see the cursive writing they teach the kids here. real fancy and almost illegible for the first few years while they get the hang of it. not like the sort of linked-block "joined-up-writing" they teach in the UK.

The funny thing is, by year 6 they all write differently anyway.
At least as much diversity as I remember in my class at that age.

Still, I assume there's a reason for teaching it from age four...

It IS tricky for me though - my k's and z's are particularly confusing to them if I write naturally. As is the fact I cross my 7s.

I can write more neatly than this if I really try, but usually I'm the only one who ever needs to read it.....

Is there a point to learning cursive?

Probably just sour grapes on my part. My handwriting is garbage. Even I can't read it. Thank God for computers.

I have a fountain pen problem now

Lovely!

I used to have a bunch of fountain pens. I like them. But now I type more than hand write.

I used to have bad hand-writing, now it's worse.

Me also.

Likewise, but switching to the fountain pen has improved it tremendously.
A ball point has to be moving whereas the nib can start and stop giving better control. I had a problem with my checkbook register, the first two columns on the left are for the check number and date but oil from my thumb/finger would make it impossible for a ballpoint. Even the skip proof, write on anything pens couldn't hack it. Then with numbers looking like they were formed with dotted lines, trying to go back and make them legible made it worse.
But the fountain pen says hold my cap and watch this...

"I had a problem with my checkbook register, the first two columns on the left are for the check number and date..."
You still write that (and more) all down?

You don't need that information. Until you do.

With these TWSBI pens - it's a Taiwanese brand - the clear barrel is full of ink, and you can see the ink and how much is left. It sloshes around in the barrel and I think that is very pleasing.



for the middle two pens i matched the ink color to the end & cap color of the pen. deep geekery

it is the most simple pleasure, how the ink works, how it goes onto the paper, how deep and varied the colors and inks are. i wish i could draw

ASMR

Diaphone Jim;1055778 wrote:

"I had a problem with my checkbook register, the first two columns on the left are for the check number and date..."
You still write that (and more) all down?

Yes, check#, date, who to, and how much. Don't keep a running balance though, and don't enter deposits.

lumberjim;1055828 wrote:

ASMR

I had that when I was a kid. Wheezing all the time

Har.

If you can write, you can draw. It's in your eyes, not your hand.

My eyes are unrehearsed, I am audio-orientated or something

But now, enjoying the colors and lines, who knows know what may come of it

This sheening ink is incredible. At different angles of light, the writing goes from a pure, deep, beautiful blue, to red.





Tried to show it through a loupe, the effect is hard to catch this way but you can see it sheens red where the ink is more dense on the page

So just to be clear, the ink is moving away from us at the speed of light.

*snort*

An ink for blue bloods.

I've been using the same folded paper towel to clean off pens after they've been dipped in ink to refill.

What, you can't use the curtains like other people? ;)

When exposed to the Undertoad inkblot test, some people visualize shower curtains and experience the urge to be sarcastic.

This interpretation is not typically a cause for concern; unless, such a person lives near you.

That's pretty cool.

I see flowers in the park near a fence.

SteveDallas;279526 wrote:

The only handy exhibits that didn't have incriminating personal info. (I wanted to post something I had actually done, not something specially written for the purpose.)

That's as crappy as my handwriting...and saves me from having to post a sample. :)