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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: Loa on January 25, 2018, 05:19:08 PM

Title: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Loa on January 25, 2018, 05:19:08 PM: Mine has been described as 'a drunk spider walking across the page'.
Hows yours?
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: northstar3184 on January 25, 2018, 05:54:27 PM: Well I certainly don't have a description that colorful and creative. My writing is large, dark (I tend to press hard when I write), and sloppy, albeit legible. I had a friend tell me that my handwriting is a dead giveaway of my cerebral palsy. I think that's a very accurate way to describe it.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Safflower on January 25, 2018, 05:59:03 PM: "Who writes in cursive anymore?" and "How do you even read that?" "Is that an s?" "That looks so hard to write!" -_- My classmates can't read cursive. At all. Thats how they describe it, by asking questions... My cursive is neat too, haha. Not too loopy and long though :)
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Post by: zombienixon on January 25, 2018, 06:21:22 PM: Mine is kind of nondescript. There isn't a lot that really distinguishes it. I wouldn't call it pretty, but it's not illegible, either.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on January 25, 2018, 06:31:24 PM: The "I apply cursive techniques but it ends up looking sloppy and my a's and u's look very similar" shuffle.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Marlin on January 25, 2018, 07:06:02 PM: I have two types of writing - me relaxed and tidy (and apparently very pretty so I've been told) and me at work.... scribbling so madly that even I can't decipher my scrawl sometimes.... :lol:
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: goddessofpeep on January 25, 2018, 09:46:44 PM: “Gave up on life scribble”.

It usually gets worse at the ends, so you can sometimes recognize letters at the beginnings of words, but I usually stop trying by the ends.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Beldarna on January 25, 2018, 10:42:23 PM: I've been told it's pretty. It's cursive and very rounded. Yet I have a hard time reading stuff I wrote a week ago. Is that a "n" or "u"? Oh, it was a "v"!!!
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 25, 2018, 11:26:34 PM: Someone once said that if future archeologists found anything I'd written on, they'd think it was a lost language. I call bull puckey. My handwriting is much more legible then my print. Even if it's not pretty.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Miniature Sheep on January 26, 2018, 12:55:58 AM: My handwriting is kind of lapsed cursive; it used to be very posh-looking but since I finished college, it just gradually deteriorated. Nowadays it looks a bit like that brushy, swoopy text you see on completely uninspired covers of poetry collections, but much less legible.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Kiwi on January 26, 2018, 04:09:57 AM: Mine is a hodge podge mix somewhere between printing and cursive. I can be neat, but often it's a bit sloppy (still legible - basically whatever gets it on the page fastest).
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on January 26, 2018, 04:31:08 AM: Mine when I was young my writing was sloppy like chicken scratch joined up writing. Wasn't allowed to write non joined up.

But now I write with no words joined up.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 26, 2018, 05:41:32 AM: Mine changes constantly. I can write the same sentence each day, fill a page, and it looks like each was done by different people. So I guess it could be described as "that's freaky, you should be locked up"

I'm jealous of people who have consistent writing and signature.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Kikwifluff on January 26, 2018, 11:13:55 AM: My handwriting is terrible. I can hardly read it :|

But if I had to describe it, it'd be one giant, illegible scribble :pout:
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: RoseNoire on January 26, 2018, 11:28:36 AM: Mine is clear, small and often italic. No one has precisely described it yet, but everyone seems to like it so far. When I take the train and the person who checks my ticket shows up, I get complimented. =D I love cursive writing. ^^
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on January 26, 2018, 01:00:02 PM: Sometimes my handwriting is clear, and other times it isn't. I'm pretty lazy and don't always pick up my pencil so lots of letters get jumbled together. Also, I never learned cursive, but I can read it with no problem most of the time.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Galactica on January 26, 2018, 01:02:26 PM: In a word, "illegible"
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Taffeta on January 26, 2018, 04:48:06 PM: Quote from: Loa on January 25, 2018, 05:19:08 PM
Mine has been described as 'a drunk spider walking across the page'.
Hows yours?

Funny. I've used that explanation in a story before to describe a character's scrawl. I guess there are a lot of drunk spiders around O.o xD

Mine? Messy. Though it is actually the neatest in my family if I want it to be, because I worked in a job where I had to write clearly for students with problems reading (dyslexia etc) and so I had to make sure I could be legible. But generally it's quite messy. It also changes...I don't always write the same letter the same way.

I have the distinction of writing messily in two languages, too, as my Japanese handwriting is apparently also full of bad habits. I used to write it neatly. But you know, when you write fast >.>. Though I admit I write kanji less than I used to thanks to computer options and so I guess that made it worse as well.

I tend to think of my normal handwriting (in English) as being hentaigana English, because of my habit of switching out different versions of letters like a and s and z and so on. Hentaigana is basically alternate forms of different characters in Japanese which got standardised in the 1940s but before that there were multiple ways of writing certain phonetic sounds (and they used to be written in really squiggly script as well).
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/hentaigana-history-of-japanese-writing-system/
If anyone is interested or confused >.>

In two words, I guess hentaigana kuzushiji.

And for anyone who doesn't know what that is, imagine an English language version of this...
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Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Harmonie on January 26, 2018, 08:19:02 PM: When I write neatly, I've been told it looks like that of a teenage girl's. However, my writing in general - like when I take notes in class - is awful. lol
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: tulagirl on January 27, 2018, 11:38:02 AM: Quote from: BlackCurtains on January 26, 2018, 05:41:32 AM
Mine changes constantly. I can write the same sentence each day, fill a page, and it looks like each was done by different people. So I guess it could be described as "that's freaky, you should be locked up"

I'm jealous of people who have consistent writing and signature.

:lmao: You must be my long lost twin. This is totally me.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: glitterball on January 27, 2018, 12:01:31 PM: I seem to have a few styles!

Way back at school, we had notes dictated to us and we had to write FAST so I developed a semi-cursive flowing style for that. Only I seem to be able to read it, though, haha!

When writing notes in birthday cards, I use cursive for adults and print for kids (or if I am having a bad-handwriting day, printing wins out!!)

Organiser notes are done in semi-cursive in tiny script; my fave pen is a simple, Bic Crystalline (fine) nib in black. I just find these pens the most reliable for me.

I leave ink roller-balls and felt tips for art projects. I also have vintage nibs and dip-pens, but these are more for art, rather than writing. My fountain pens are a joy to use BUT only if I have blotting paper to hand, I used to keep one in my handbag for cheques but lack of blotting papers made for smudged results - the Bic won!

Pencils - I often opt for a 2B instead of an HB as the result is darker, which I like. I have a few Palomino Blackwing pencils - expensive, but they keep a hard, sharp point for longer yet have a nice, dark result. Always have one of those to hand! Plus they look cool :cool:

My Dad was a draughtsman and was disciplined in both pencil and ink work (before he moved on to CAD digital drawings) so he has a very stylised hand that still shows through to this day, but even he admits that it looks less refined since he used computers! :lol:
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: RoseNoire on January 27, 2018, 12:54:28 PM: Well, I used my tablet to write and example. How would you describe it ? It's curly, a bit italic (I'm left-Handed) and well, I tend to join the roof when I don't have lines to follow. xD Of course, I can make it better. That was a quick example. :lol:

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Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: SnorkMaiden on January 27, 2018, 01:48:31 PM: Interesting question. I used to write in a pretty curly cursive, which looked nice, but people who'd never learned cursive found it hard to read. A few years ago, when I had a job that required me to write comments that had to be legible to others, I trained myself to print. For a while, I was writing in cursive in private and printing at work. These days, I find it easier to print all the time, though my writing is still rather curly.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: LadyMoondancer on January 27, 2018, 02:23:14 PM: My handwriting is pretty legible, but not 'beautiful' or anything. I print although I will sometimes connect letters if it's convenient.

I was taught cursive in grade school, though. A complete waste of time IMO. I hate my handwriting in cursive and writing in it always made my hand hurt.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: BlackCurtains on January 27, 2018, 03:24:03 PM: I learned cursive too. That's one thing that makes my writing so wacky. I go back and forth between the two. It's a major problem with my signature.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Tulips on January 29, 2018, 04:15:05 AM: I've had multiple people tell me I should be a doctor because of my handwriting alone. I try to make an effort to neaten it when others need to understand what I've written, but if it's just notes to myself even I need context clues to remember what it may say sometimes.

To try and describe it: the letters run into each other, become disjointed or misplaced, or skipped altogether. When I write 'the' it looks more like tl~ (t l squiggle)... Lol

Interestingly, I vaugely remember something about scientific research encouraging handwriting more often for improved mental health?
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 29, 2018, 06:51:29 AM: My handwriting is rather messy, but you can still read it. My old science teacher told me I write in hieroglyphs. I’ve made an effort to make it more legible, but my brain still goes faster than my hands.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: Skeen on January 29, 2018, 07:40:38 AM: Mine changes so much - even on the same page and in the same paragraph! - that it looks like different people wrote it.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: melodys_angel on January 29, 2018, 08:04:23 AM: if im rushing it looks like doctor scribble.

Otherwise it can be pretty neat--though I prefer printing to cursive.
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: DazzleKitty on February 11, 2018, 06:42:50 PM: Mine fluctuates. Sometimes it looks really nice, and the other time it looks like chicken scratch. I love pretty handwriting and really wish mine was always nice. :)
Title: Re: Describe your handwriting...
Post by: cyberunicorn on February 14, 2018, 01:59:46 PM: At work neat and tidy

At home to call it chicken scratch would be an insult to the chickens