My handwriting

[lo5an]

I recently finished Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. It was an interesting read. I'll probably post a book review

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[goldbug]

I would like to borrow that book.

[lo5an]

I'll be checking it back in to the Norman library in another couple of days :-)

[goldbug]

Well, then. Maybe I'll put a hold on it!

[champignon]

oh MY. Now I simply must read that book.

I have developed at least 5 distinct handwritings since high school.

Once, the bank wouldn't take the rent check from me that my roommate deposited because I had used a different signature from the one they had on file for me (I've stuck to one signature since. duh.)

Mmmm. pens.

Any tips for good sources of decent paper for writing on with good pens. Preferably that isn't absurdly expensive?

[lo5an]

I'm usually tweaking things a few letters at a time, rather than making wholesale changes. I do write with a more italic style now.I've been thinking of changing my signature a little bit. I'll try to remember to visit the bank first, I guess.

I do most of my writing with a Cross fountain pen, or a Pilot Precise, and I just use laser printer paper, mostly.

[krieg_hund]

My writing has always been bad. Straight 'U' (Unsatisfactory) through elementary school bad.

Part of my problem is that I'm left handed. I'm sure your father has explained how unnatural left to right cursive writing is for us.

The other part of my problem is that I held the *method* of communication in contempt for a very long time. I have poor writing, spelling, grammar, and I even speak unintelligibly. I'm working on them, now, but when I was young, I was much more interested in ideas rather than the wrappings they are dressed in. I assumed my audience would make the same mental jumps I did, since they seem obvious to me.

[bizwark]

My mother writes in all caps, which is something I do from time to time because I picked it up from her. She does it for the same reason, drafting courses.

A relative of mine once brought a suit against a prof who gave him bad exam grades because he couldn't read his handwriting -- despite the fact that said relative had offered to have them typed up by someone else. He won.

My handwriting is good when I want it to be...because I went to Catholic school, where they make you practice a lot. I get compliments from time to time.

[spec_tat_or]

I am such a pen snob that it is painful for me to write with anything but one of my good things. No one else in the office has a good enough pen for me to use either. I do not know if it is OCD or just snobbery but I cannot work with a bad pen.