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Do you like your handwriting?
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| I love my handwriting |
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| I like my handwriting |
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| I am indifferent to my handwriting |
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| I dislike my handwriting |
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| I hate my handwriting |
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| I don't know how to write ... I use computers for everything |
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(last vote on : 8/2/2008 12:01:40 AM)
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/22/2008 3:03:06 PM
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Kyrillos
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I speak, read, and understand three to varying degrees (English and Spanish natively, Russian high-intermediate after 7 years of study in a completely non-Russian environment). I suppose I can read any written in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets.
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/22/2008 3:31:20 PM
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WhiteRoseBlessings
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Wow, Kyrillos! Way to go! 
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Shar-Mar ... how exactly did you CHANGE your handwriting? Was it a completely different style? Yep, it was completely different. 
I actually changed it twice. The first time, I changed it from looking almost identical to what the "cursive template" is . . . I'm probably seriously dating myself here, but when I was learning how to write, on the wall about the chalkboard were signs that when put together were one long continuous "sign". They were "chalkboard green" with the same "writing line style" that were in notebooks for kids that age. The letters were "chalkboard white" and went through the entire alphabet (both upper and lower case) as to how cursive letters should look.
For years my handwriting looked just like that (I'm such a rule follower).
But, I also like to dance to my own tune; and by the time I entered the 9th grade, all the girls were writing in up-and-down letters with big circular strokes.
I tried that for a while, but frankly, it drove me crazy. 
So I went back to the way I learned to write.
When I was in my early 20's (somewhere around there), I decided to change my handwriting to what it is today . . . and basically just practiced writing the alphabet and various pieces of one-page literature until I was satisfied with my new handwriting. It was also around the time that I was learning calligraphy, and the two just seemed to kinda go hand-in-hand.
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Related topic: do you write better in pen or pencil? And what kind of pen - ballpoint, gel, rollerball, marker, etc. My preference is to use a pen. I only use pencils when I'm fiddling around with calligraphy and/or related stuff - Design Drawing Pencils (and most usually, I use 2B)
I use Pentel's R.S.V.P. ink pens (click on "Ball point pens to find R.S.V.P) . . . in purple and green ink - medium point (and in black ink - fine point, for whenever I submit sales tax reports).
I love these pens! In fact, I haven't been able to find the purple pens lately (except when included in an assorted colors pack - and I don't want that) . . . so when I saw three 6-packs of these pens when I was in Jackson last month, I bought all three packs!
And just for a bonus bit of information . . . I keep all my pens stored point-down (with the caps on), so that the ink flow is always immediately available and I keep all my pencils point-up to keep the points clean so that when I use them, they don't mess up my paper.
Except for my note to Kyrillos at the beginning of this post, this has mostly been quite useless . . . but nonetheless, fun to post.
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/22/2008 8:43:18 PM
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bzirk
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I love writing in calligraphy. Somehow I can do that, but my regular handwriting is pretty inconsistent. Lisa, that's because a person learns how to write differently than they learn how to calligraph. Left brain / right brain kinda thing.
And thank you, Lioness!
Good point. When I'm writing in calligraphy, I definitely think of it as something artistic. When I'm just writing, it's purely practical.
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/23/2008 9:16:38 AM
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AlwaysR8chel
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Since I know your love of purple . . . while I was writing my last post, I was also wondering if you had ever used Pentel's R.S.V.P. pens!
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.... oh my goodness!!!
I LOVE LOVE these pens.... the purple medium is my fave.... I just like mediums.... no clue why....
I think I'm starting to have a thing for GREEN, too.... It bums me out here at work.... whenever I sign or fill out something 'official', I am required to use BLUE ink! 
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/23/2008 9:33:37 AM
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WhiteRoseBlessings
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When I was learning calligraphy, my instructor told the class that it actually didn't matter if one had good handwriting or not to do calligraphy; and that in fact, most people who did beautiful works of calligraphy really didn't have that good of handwriting.
I don't know if that little tidbit is true or not, but I always found it interesting.
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I think I'm starting to have a thing for GREEN, too.... It bums me out here at work.... whenever I sign or fill out something 'official', I am required to use BLUE ink! LOL! I can so very much empathize with you, Rachel.
I actually had to go buy some black, fine-point pens . . . R.S.V.P., of course . . . because black, fine-point pens are the only kind allowed to be used on state sales tax reports (otherwise, the computer system they feed the reports through might reject the report). Those reports are the only thing I use those goofy black pens for.
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/23/2008 2:38:46 PM
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stamper_ben
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My handwriting is so bad that even I can't read it at times. (Or maybe it's just the way I put the words together...  ) I mean when I look at a word and wonder "What IS that word?" you know there is a problem.
But I have noticed that it is a little better when I use a pencil rather than a pen. Knowing I can erase a mistake must make a difference.
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/23/2008 11:43:49 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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I am also a "lefty," but I write with my hand in about the position that "righties" position theirs. When my left hand was not injured, I had very good handwriting, but now, it hurts to write, making my handwriting awkward. Being somewhat ambidextrous, I am going to practice writing more with my right, especially for work.
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I am a lefty and had issues in high school when I wrote with erasable ink.  Because you smeared the ink? I always smeared my ink- and pencil-writing, until they came out with pens that dried faster. There are also some pens that will not write for me, because I am left-handed. Kind of odd.
When I was in third grade, we were taught to write cursive, and in fourth grade, we were supposed to use ball point pens rather than pencils. However, we had to acquire decent enough handwriting to graduate from the pencil to the pen. I was the last in my class still writing with a pencil, and my teacher informed me that I would never get to write with a pen. Her reason, she told me, was that my handwriting was terrible because I am left-handed.
Well, I held this teacher in great contempt, and our feelings for one another were mutual. I determined that she was NOT going to shame me ever again. That was the point at which my handwriting suddenly became an art form for me, even though we had to follow book-style. I ended up having the best handwriting in the class, and I credit that teacher for it.
The rest of my story is like Shar-Mar's: I changed my handwriting drastically at age 18, taking on a style similar, in a few ways, to Microsoft's Fine Hand. It differs mainly in that many of my lowercase letters (a, b, e, g, h, k, m, n, p, r, v, w, and z) are small forms of capital letters, and my Q of the capital letters is a large form of lower case Q.
Well, that's way more than anyone wnated to read, but handwriting is one form of art that I enjoy -- without the injury, anyway.
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/24/2008 11:15:49 AM
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I've taught myself to be ambidextrous just in case my klutzy self ever breaks my right arm though considering my natural righty handwriting is so abismal, my left is hardly legible. 
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/24/2008 11:41:59 AM
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AlwaysR8chel
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.... Okay... I just had to get out some letters from CW people that I have floating around.... I have to say.... I find all of the handwriting heart-warming...
I wonder if sometimes finding handwriting attractive actually has to do with the circumstances and effort put into it... and especially the person doing it?
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/24/2008 12:52:58 PM
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AlwaysR8chel
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..... My daughter used to have wonderful handwriting.... (this was a long while ago) we went through a house fire... and ever since then... her hand writing was terrible...
The teacher even called me in to complain about it....
I let the teacher have it (I was just a little angry)... sometimes tragedies affect us all differently...
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/24/2008 3:19:37 PM
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_MavericK_
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Along the lines of what Rachel says, I think handwriting says a lot about who's writing.
My handwriting's careless and quick (some would say messy) just like me.
My best bud's writing is clear and thought-out-- very organized just like him.
Or maybe it's just the time it takes for me to write my full name, 17 letters, compared to his 9. hahahahaha!!!!
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/24/2008 5:10:10 PM
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AlwaysR8chel
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..... I always hated signing my entire name....
A few years ago... I changed my signature to something WAAAAY shorter... it freaked people out.... lol!
Now I have a new last name... I can't quite figure out how to shorten it up!!! lol! ;o)
Oh yeah... I forgot why I started posting!
My sister's handwriting is carefree... just like she is.... and I think her handwriting is so beautifully artistic!! I'm sure yours is much the same, Mav....
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RE: Do you like your handwriting? - 7/24/2008 8:23:42 PM
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agapetos
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My handwriting can be neat and tidy but it can be really bad at times too.
I don't write often now because it hurts my hand to hold a pen for too long and write neatly.
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