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> I'm left-handed and there are several techniques for writing left-handed with a fountain pen. They don't all involve twisting your writing hand into "some bi
by dorchadas 8y ago
> I'm left-handed and there are several techniques for writing left-handed with a fountain pen. They don't all involve twisting your writing hand into "some bizarre contortion".
I'm just curious if you've ever tried the mirror script technique? I remember reading in Isaacson's biography that Da Vinci wrote everything in the mirror script not to code it but because that's how left-handed people were taught to write. I figure that it'd work just as well in modern days, though obviously not if you needed someone else to read it.
- pseudolus 8y agoI tend to scrawl directly over the path of the text I'm writing. I'm aware of several writing techniques that I could adopt although I have to say that I've never even considered the mirror technique. I'm very surprised that they even bothered teaching an alternative method to left-handers to write during Da Vinci's era as I was always under the impression that, up until fairly recently, the strategy simply was to force people to write with their right hand regardless of their natural inclination.
- dorchadas 8y agoI was under that impression as well, but Isaacson implied that that's a more modern way, relatively speaking, at least when compared to Renaissance Florence. Which is partially why I was interested in seeing if you had tried it.