Amazing the sort of implements (rulers, canes, belts, etc.) used to achieve a 'good' handwriting...

My mom was said to have had a good 'handwriting' [eine gute Handschrift] - in this culture, at the time, it meant to be able to deal out fairly hard smacks to the face or the bum!

Did it improve my own "Handschrift" --- I guess it did, in more then one way...

'Nature and nurture' as the saying goes  :-)

Axélle

Mine has and always will be chicken scratch. Almost. But it has changed and I didnt think anything of it until now. My S's were the first to change. they are now bubbly and girly and so now are my F's. I haven't found a way I like writing K's but my signature is evolving. I had a crappy teacher back when I was first learning to write. She tried to make me write with the right hand but I am left-handed. Needless to say the left beat the right. ^_^
But it left me hating to write. Which I now find funny because I love to write stories. Thank you to all the Trans Women who helped bring the computer into the home. ^_^

OK - so WHO writes with hearts here or at least have tried it before???

FESS up! LOL

Haha, I don't even dot my I's; there's nowhere for hearts to go.

My handwriting is... weird. It slants left, looks simultaneously rounded and pointy, and I form a bunch of my letters rather weirdly. I went through phases throughout adolescence of changing the way I wrote a certain letter. Happened for 6 or 7 different letters. My signature is pretty chicken-scratchy. You can see my initials, the letters that descend, and the star I add at the end.

I'm actually rather curious to see examples of people's handwriting. I've done a little reading on handwriting analysis, and it really interests me.

why don't we all take pictures of our handwriting and post it here?

Hmm??

Let s write in homage of this forum -

"I love Susan's Forums" and upload the pic here!

Quote from: MsDazzler on December 26, 2011, 01:26:50 PM
why don't we all take pictures of our handwriting and post it here?

Hmm??

No way.. You would think i am a 3 yr old child. I sign stuff like a DR who just scribbles real fast

I've always had very feminine writing. I don't quite understand why your handwriting will change depending on your transition.

And MS Dazzler, I don't use hearts, but I definitely use crosses and big circles. Lol.

Ahh, my handwriting is really terrible. One of my teachers had me rewrite one of my exercise books because she couldn't read it and she said she wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't read it either. She was almost right, it proved to be quite challenging to decode my own handwriting, but I prevailed. I really want to improve my handwriting but I didn't put a lot of effort into it, mainly because I rarely use it anyway.

Matter of fact many schools are not teaching cursive writing anymore.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=schools+not+tea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=schools+not+teaching+cursive

I wonder if it changes based upon whether a person is right of left handed?

I'm a southpaw here, and my handwriting used to be so terrible I actually had trouble reading it myself.

After years of strenuous practice from taking notes all day (<--- History major.) and copying from girls, I now get girls complimenting my handwriting style.

If only I could interact with the world solely through written letters, I would pass 100% of the time.  :

Girls write dainty, pretty oh so girlishly, while boys, big nasty smelly boys have disgusting depraved handwriting.  That seems to be the thinking by the responses so far.   I wouldn't say that my sister's handwriting was neat etc and my mother writes in such a small cramped style that her writing is difficult to decipher.

I tried to upload a picture of my handwriting from my computer but I don't see any option to do so here 

Quote from: tekla on December 26, 2011, 02:52:46 PM
Matter of fact many schools are not teaching cursive writing anymore.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=schools+not+tea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=schools+not+teaching+cursive

I can't imagine not writing cursively - it's so much easier and quicker to join letters up. I'd compare it to typing with two hands or one hand.

My hand writing has always been and continues to be horrid.  I tend to be a nervous person and my handwriting is probably a reflection of this - when I write, my hand is usually tense.

Quote from: Happy Girl! on December 26, 2011, 04:40:00 PM
Girls write dainty, pretty oh so girlishly, while boys, big nasty smelly boys have disgusting depraved handwriting.  That seems to be the thinking by the responses so far.   I wouldn't say that my sister's handwriting was neat etc and my mother writes in such a small cramped style that her writing is difficult to decipher.

Well I am not a big smelly boy as I always prided myself as being clean but my penwomanship is challenged.  I always print so that my writing can be deciphered.

Quote from: tekla on December 26, 2011, 02:52:46 PM
Matter of fact many schools are not teaching cursive writing anymore.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=schools+not+tea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=schools+not+teaching+cursive

I always thought it was a useless, "skill"  how much illegible handwriting have you seen ?   I block print, with perfect height and spacing like the dehumanized machine that I am.

http://www.paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html

Quite simply, my handwriting is awful :/ back in junior school, the teachers were pretty heavy on handwriting, making us write joined up all the time, so my writing used to be pretty neat, but since then, at secondary school and college I've usually only had to write notes and any essays were typed on a computer, so now my handwriting is pretty much illegible - even to me! I'm starting to make an effort to regain my old writing - which got me compliments from girls, as it was rather pretty - wish me luck!

My handwriting is atrocious. I actually feel accomplished if someone else can read it.

when I was in 2nd grade, my handwriting was terrible.  My teacher used to make me practice every day until it was legible.  Now my handwriting looks like hers did.  As a guy it looks weird, loopy and neat, but it is legible and feminine.  Great issue to bring up.  It is something we do everyday, and handwriting can have masculine and feminine traits.