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As someone into calligraphy, I agree entirely. People claim it is faster to write - but there is no way I can write faster than I can type and in the past 12 ye

by Nadya 10y ago

As someone into calligraphy, I agree entirely. People claim it is faster to write - but there is no way I can write faster than I can type and in the past 12 years, I've had zero reason to write at all, outside of practicing calligraphy (Chancery Italic to be specific). If the only supporting argument is cursive is "faster" and you must write, not type, then you will absolutely not beat shorthand. Learn Gregg shorthand [1], not cursive. If you want your handwriting to "look nice", treat it as an art form, because that is what you are doing when aesthetics supercedes practicality. [0] https://calligraphyalaphbets.imgur.com/ https://calligraphyalaphbets.imgur.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_shorthand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_shorthand

antisthenes 10y ago
Comparing shorthand and regular writing is a disingenuous way to make an argument, to say the least. It's like comparing a text file with the same file, but compressed in some obscure format, like ACE. You'll spend orders of magnitude more time finding a single person who can read your shorthand than learning it and writing whatever it was that needed to be written. The advantage of normal writing (whether cursive or hybrid cursive/print) is that, in theory, barring extreme cases, everyone can read it or at least guess the context from the words. The Gregg shorthand you linked looks like a bunch of scribbles and might as well be Chinese glyphs or Hebrew to a layman. If the goal is to write notes for personal use, I think that time's long gone and most information is available online and can be easily referenced in seconds with search queries (unlike a hand written notebook, where you must store a mental index of the contents). > If you want your handwriting to "look nice", treat it as an art form, because that is what you are doing when aesthetics supercedes practicality. It doesn't need to "look nice", just legible enough to convey information or a part information, from which the rest can be inferred by context.

by Nadya 10y ago

antisthenes 10y ago

Comparing shorthand and regular writing is a disingenuous way to make an argument, to say the least. It's like comparing a text file with the same file, but compressed in some obscure format, like ACE. You'll spend orders of magnitude more time finding a single person who can read your shorthand than learning it and writing whatever it was that needed to be written. The advantage of normal writing (whether cursive or hybrid cursive/print) is that, in theory, barring extreme cases, everyone can read it or at least guess the context from the words. The Gregg shorthand you linked looks like a bunch of scribbles and might as well be Chinese glyphs or Hebrew to a layman. If the goal is to write notes for personal use, I think that time's long gone and most information is available online and can be easily referenced in seconds with search queries (unlike a hand written notebook, where you must store a mental index of the contents). > If you want your handwriting to "look nice", treat it as an art form, because that is what you are doing when aesthetics supercedes practicality. It doesn't need to "look nice", just legible enough to convey information or a part information, from which the rest can be inferred by context.