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An alternative comment: I've found people's handwriting deteriorate as time has gone by... cursive is rarer to come by (leaving the 'legibility' argument aside
by reallymental 5y ago
An alternative comment:
I've found people's handwriting deteriorate as time has gone by... cursive is rarer to come by (leaving the 'legibility' argument aside), typing has certainly contributed to this, but some people still write on boards to explore ideas and boy are those diagrams and writings unreadable.
If the author posted some samples of the grandfather's notes (withholding personal information), that would have added a very personal touch to the article indeed, and also ensured his ancestor's work gets recorded by archive.com.
edit: grammar.
- mgkimsal 5y agoI've been consistently embarrassed by my writing and drawing (cursive, block, white boarding, etc) since I was a kid, and I can't seem to get any better. My wife's penmanship in any situation is... great (stunning by comparison). I can read stuff she wrote 20 years ago - I have trouble rereading my own notes from 2 minutes ago.
- medstrom 5y agoWriting love letters and other notes to my girlfriend prompted me to look up videos on handwriting. It honestly doesn't take long -- in preschool it was torture, but as an adult you can achieve big gains in an hour.
- owenversteeg 5y agoWhat videos did you use? Other people here, what did you use? I see there are a ton of options - Getty-Dubay is mentioned below but there seem to be many other similar systems.
- krrrh 5y agoDrop loop cursive and get the book Write Now which teaches Getty-Dubay italic to adults. https://handwritingsuccess.com/ https://handwritingsuccess.com/
- intergalplan 5y agoThat loopy-style cursive they taught us in school was so damn ugly, even when done perfectly, and not especially fast. I never understood why they were making us learn it. Its existence only made any sense to me whatsoever when I learned it was designed with a fountain pen in mind.
- intergalplan 5y agoI have writing samples from second grade. My writing was much more legible then.
- JasonFruit 5y agoI improved my handwriting markedly by teaching my children handwriting. Knowing I was setting a poor example for them was motivating.