Cursive writing

[Cameraman Jenn]

I said I had nice penmanship. I did not make any claims about good grammar.

[Cagliostro]

I said I had nice penmanship. I did not make any claims about good grammar.

I have the opposite afflication, and sometimes I even blow that. But you are probably the winner as my penmanship looks worse than the writing on the album The Wall by Pink Floyd. And retaining nice penmanship is much easier than always being grammatically skilled.

[matrixman]

I, for one, have written him off.

Couldn't resit, could you?

I don't even know how to resit.

Resit: get up from chair, then sit back down?

*ducks rotten veggies*


Count me as another whose writing has "mutated" into a hybrid cursive/print style over the years. However, I still think my penmanship is pretty decent, at least compared to some of the horrors I've seen at my workplace. Some people just should not go near any writing instrument - whether for writing or stabbing purposes. Okay, maybe I'll let go on the stabbing.

I type now more than I write (KW is to blame) but I do keep a notebook around and still enjoy the act of putting pen to paper.

[MsMary]

Hey, Jenn, I value good penmenship and enjoy calligraphy, too.

[Seareach]

I think you should post an example of your good penman/womanship, Jenn.

I have two types of handwriting: the scruffy stuff and then the good stuff. My scruffy stuff is reasonably illegible, my good stuff is a mixture of cursive, copperplate and other "stuff"

When I was in year 7 I got in trouble for not using cursive. My teach said that people could write faster using cursive. Having not used it much, and knowing I wrote a lot, in my home room my home room teacher took me on--we were to race each other to write "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog". She was so confident... She lost. I got to stick with my semi-cursive style.

[Fist and Faith]

My daughter is 8 and I'm 39.
She's learning cursive writing at school.
The other night I was trying to help her when I realized....I have no idea how to write in cursive anymore!
Apparently......my writing skills have mutated or devolved into some kind of bastardized cursive writing style: a few fragments of cursive letters tossed into a sloppy printing vomitous shorthand thing that even I can't read.

Has anyone else lost their penmanship skills to the age of the keyboard?

This is kinda hilarious.

[bloodguard bob]

10th grade I decided to stop using a cursive and cursive/block combo hand and switch to using capital letters only. I haven't been able to write in cursive for many years but lately I've been learning calligraphy for kicks since letters are fun to write; letters you put in the mail that is, not they are.

[sgt.null]

i refuse to use cursive for anything but scrawling my signature. and if you read Scribblings you can see that I write a lot.