Handwriting

[amuse]

okay, so we all have different handwriting depending on our mood; if we're in a tearing hurry, feeling soft & warm, or paying taxes, etc.

that aside, what is yours like?

mine is generally horrifyingly sloppy, like my hand's too big for the paper. i start out so well-intentioned nearly every time, but then the words overcome the paper, and it's not girly at all, just a forward-running sprawl. sometimes it looks halfway decent, but always with big lower loops, and is only contained if i tense my whole arm.
when it's pretty, i'm probably formal/phony/gaga re: the bf.

[emily655321]

I hate my handwriting. It's never been those nice neat curly-Q's or big bubbly letters other girls always wrote with. I've remedied it by printing in all-caps, but when I'm taking notes it turns into long, slanty half-printing/half-cursive things.

[imthefoolonthehill]

Mine is so bad, I have to type what others normally handwrite.

[Sancho]

Mine is only legible if I print in block letters; otherwise it’s hieroglyphics (by design).

[ajoe]

I both handwrite and print... both are roundish and look neat as long as the pen I'm using is good...

[simon]

Being one of those grade school students who decided that cursive was a waste of time and only learning it for the sake of popcorn rewards, I quickly forgot all and cannot write a letter of cursive, thus doomed to write in a sloppy frantic print that laughs in the face of lines tending to go the opposite way of the grain when taking notes looping round holes and cramping smaller and smaller until it is unreadable, hence my handwritting is very small and neat or moderatly small and sloppy.

[fayefaye]

Mine is completely illegible: and I'm proud of it that way. I'm renowned for my mess. People have to decipher my writing like it's some sort of secret code. But it always annoyed me how teachers would try to make you learn to write not neatly, but beautifully: I want my words to be judged on their content, not their appearance. Ironically, and tragically, I often get marked down because the examiner can't read my writing. Or so they say.

[Koa]

Well faye, that happens to a lot of people...There were 2 people in my class at school whose works always needed interpretation to be read...

Wow, handwriting is one of my favourite topics! Mine is very big, I write in 2 lines what other people write in 1! (might have something to do with being short-sighted, methinks). And it used to be a bit of a childish one, but now with age it seems to be getting worse and worse... When I take notes I write very quickly and sometimes it's undreadable, even to me... The guy I have a crush on stopped asking notes to me cos he says they're too messy...
I think my handwriting is looking more and more 'male': I think there's often a difference between male and female handwritings, in general... Of course there are exceptions, like this guy's (the crush) handwriting looks so female!!!
Also, I think there's a difference between countries, like the shape of some letters, or just some general feature...for example British handwritings are quite recognisable and rather different from Italian ones.

[emily655321]

That's interesting. I've never seen anyone's handwriting from a non-English-speaking country, so I don't know. But I agree about the male/female thing. Girls tend to write larger and more loopy, and guys always seem to write really tiny.

[Koa]

Yep, smaller and much more messy...(while this guy i was talking about writes in such a neat way that I find it irritating...and he looks horrified at the mess I'm making of my notes! ) I want to post a sample of handwriting (I did that before in another forum), but that means scanning it first, and I don't have a good relationship with the scanner (it does work, but it bores me to death...). So I need to find the mood. Maybe later

[kilted exile]

My writing is terrible. The letters are too large & I have a tendency to curve my writing along the edge of the page if I run out of space on the paper.

[faith]

emily, koa! I do too think there is a differsnce between male and female wrighting, but emliys saying males have the smaller writhing. As far as I know that completely wrong. In my school al the girls have very tiny handwritings, whereas boys always have to use several papers to get down the same thing. The usual diffence is that its harder to understand what the boys are writing. As well known gils are tidyer!

And my handwriting? Well untill 6th grade I wrote in an uglt cursive, because my teacher forced me. Now I cant write in cursive anymore. Thou my mum thiks Im always writing in cursive, but Im not. I just bibd some print letter together, and to some people it looks like cursive. A couple of years ago my friend conciderd my handwriting pretty, but I always envyed the other girls with even prettier handwrithings. Well, by now my handwriting has got worse. Especially when I take notes fast. Sometimes even I cant read what Ive written. But I can defineitely write in a completely readable handwriting if I take my time.

[emily655321]

I was never made to write in cursive at school; once we had learned it they just said, "you can use cursive if you want to, but it's only required on final drafts of essays." My elementary school was kind of the "free-thinking" type; they thought it was more important to teach kids to use their imagination than grammar and penmanship. But the Jr. and Sr. High school is made up of 5 towns (we're small towns), so when the kids from my school got there we didn't know the basics everyone else did. I never had to practice my cursive correctly, even though I usually chose to use it, so when I try to write very neatly now the lines look kind of wiggly and pained, like a little kid's.

[Koa]

Oh? Once at primary school I wrote in capitals just for a change, and the teacher looked like cos she couldnt understand why I did that.

I'm on the side who thinks that male handwritings are smaller... all the guys I know (even the one with female looking handwriting) write in half line what I write in 2...

I tried to post a sample of handwriting, but it didnt work....
Cos Em said she never saw a non-english handwriting... Well for example my English guy was surprised cos I write N like he'd write M...but in Italy we mostly write N with 2 'legs' and M with 3...

[subterranean]

mine is depend on the person who's going to read it...
for friends mine are so messy, though they are still readable
for my boyfriend, mine are so neat and tidy...even he said they look like print out and not hand writing
to teachers, well sometimes messy sometimes neat..depend on the deadline