My English handwriting is quite ok but my Urdu's handwriting is a disaster.
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My English handwriting is quite ok but my Urdu's handwriting is a disaster.
My handwriting really depends on what I'm writing.
When I was still in school, my mother used to complain that when I worte stories I wrote all neat and legible. When I wrote my homework, school exercises and such, my hand writing became real messy sometimes. Though that may have something to do with my doing my homework five minutes before the teacher's entrance lots of times in my last year.
Mostly my letters are small, the space between them varies as I don't use the same diction the whole time. I like using lots of twirls in certain letters. And I haven't got a real affinity towards left or right while writing, my letters tend to lean towards the right side of a page but that may change in the middle of a word. Not often though.
But I noticed I don't write as messy as I used to when trying to keep track with what the teacher says. Probably because I can now recognize the "keywords" my profs are so fond of. Or because I changed my writing style, who knows.
I once handed in a hand-written English paper that the teacher then proceeded to wave about in front of the class while shouting (in a very posh British accent)The scary thing is, he's right. Even I can't read what I've written most of the time. Thank god for computers.Quote:
Mr ****'s handwriting is appalling! It looks like drunken spiders crawling across the paper!
My handwriting is abysmal. It is legible, but that's about it. Fortunately, I have a good excuse: My joints are not the best around (If I'd been a horse, I probably would have wound up in the glue factory). Computers do have their advantages, though: Nowadays few people have to put up with my handwriting.
Besides, a good deal of the stuff I do produce (or draw) both by hand and digitally comes in the form of mindmaps. I opened a new thread on that subject to avoid derailing this one
/Claes
I never lend notes because no one can read them; i just lost one mark on a midterm for bad handwriting! ... I can read it fine, everything makes perfect sence to me ... its everyone else! Thier eyes are sloppy, not my penmanship!
Mine is so bad I could have been a doctor - except I can't stand needles! :eek2:
I could never become a doctor because my handwriting is pretty good and it is rather 'feminine' as well, I guess. I can write both cursive and non-cursive with ease but I usually use a personal mixture of both.
I write in print that often tends to link itself together to become an almost cursive writing of my own, especially when I'm in a hurry. Also, my 's' always looks the same as a 'g', which I think may be a bit odd. But at least I can read my own handwriting.
My handwriting leans strongly to the right and is highly illegible. I sometimes write backwards--just for the heck of it--and a friend of mine who was reading my backwards writing using a mirror said it was easier to read than my normal writing. It must be pretty bad when it's easier to read backward than forward. :lol:
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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love
thats hilarious. does it take you a really long time to write backwards, or does it go quickly?
Isn't that what Leonardo Da Vinci used to do? Instead of the Da Vinci code, we'll have the Petrarch code.Quote:
Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love
My handwriting is terrible. My teachers in school would condem it. I think it's gotten a little better over the years because they made me so self conscious about it. And who says teachers have no impact?
I can write at just about the same speed forward and backwards. If I really need to get something down fast though I have to do it forward (but I can't guarantee anyone will be able to read it ;) ).Quote:
thats hilarious. does it take you a really long time to write backwards, or does it go quickly?
:lol: The Petrarch code eh? I'd better start writing now so I can give Dan Brown a run for his money:). Yes, Leonardo wrote backwards too, but he was trying to conceal the ideas of a genius from prying eyes whereas I just had too much time on my hands as an undergrad. I have a bad habit of writing poetry in the middle of my class notes (sometimes related to the subject of the lecture, sometimes not) so I took to writing all poetry, side comments, questions, or critical remarks backwards to keep it seperate from the main part of my notes. Sometimes I'll start writing backwards when a lecturer goes off on a long tangent too, so I can easily pick out where the tangential remarks begin and end, and keep them seperate from the main argument. Of course it's also handy for penning anything I want to keep a secret. :brow:Quote:
Isn't that what Leonardo Da Vinci used to do? Instead of the Da Vinci code, we'll have the Petrarch code.
Remarkable, and really cool. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love
that is so cool, so like lets say you are taking notes, could you take them backwards?
My handwriting is incredible, it is so good, it is often compared to hieroglyphs. I'd give you an example, but I don't think you be able to make it out, it's that good!
As for writing backwards, that's a funny thing I do it naturaly with my offhand (right), but then it becomes somewhat messy, since I am a bit shakey with that hand. And it's so slooooooow. It's really cool you can do that petrarch.