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My handwriting at school was so spidery that I was signed-up for handwriting lessons. Insanely, they gave me an italic pen, and had me practising italic letter-
by denton-scratch 4y ago
My handwriting at school was so spidery that I was signed-up for handwriting lessons. Insanely, they gave me an italic pen, and had me practising italic letter-forms.
Unsurprisingly, my handwriting turned into a mess of italic letter-forms and spidery crap. I'm told that my handwriting is not just readable, but even clear; but hell, if I can't read my own writing, I don't see how anyone can describe it as "clear". It's an ugly mess.
It's good for signatures, though; I have a signature that seems pretty hard to copy. In fact I can't copy it myself; every time I sign my name it looks different.
[Edit] There was another guy at school who was taught italic; he favoured green ink, and wrote in the most beautiful italic script you can imagine - very regular. It must have taken him hours to write his school essays.
- Kuinox 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia
- denton-scratch 4y agoI do not have a learning disability! I think my spidery scrawl was more legible before I had remedial instruction. My handwriting was damaged by my teachers. Sure, it was ugly to start with; but the remedial instruction just made it worse (and I ended up writing slower). Lose, lose, lose.
- Terretta 4y ago> I'm told that my handwriting is not just readable, but even clear; but hell, if I can't read my own writing, I don't see how anyone can describe it as "clear". It's an ugly mess. ... suggests something is up.
- denton-scratch 4y agoWell, sure. I'm 66, I was badly concussed a few years ago, I drink a lot, my hand is unsteady, and my eyesight is fading. Occam's Razor hacks away any diagnosis of learning disability.
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- denton-scratch 4y agoRotten handwriting is apparently an occupational hazard for computer nerds. I have no idea why that might be.
- joshstrange 4y agoSame here, unless I am concentrating super hard my block letters don't even look like another of the same letter. My handwriting is just not consistent. I've long theorized that nice handwriting is like 90% "do you make letter consistently the same" verses anything else, I can't do it (or have no patience to spend seconds on each letter, which still look wiggly). Typing is just better in every imaginable way IMHO.
- delecti 4y agoWhat is an italic pen? I'm aware of italic fonts (slanted letters) and italic script (the same but handwritten), but I can't find anything about a specific type of pen used for it.
- denton-scratch 4y agoThe kind of pen I'm referring to is a pen with a nib that is a flat blade of metal, cut across, making a straight edge, then slit to make an ink channel. If you drag it horizontally, e.g. left-to-right, it makes a very fine line; if you drag it vertically, it makes a line as broad as the width of the nib. Sometimes they are cut on a slant; sometimes you hold them on a slant. So take "horizontal" and "vertical" with a bushel of salt. Basically, these things are metal replicas of quill pens, which are made as flat blades cut across to make an edge and then slit. That wide-stroke/thin-stroke business isn't anything to do with italicness, as far as I know; nor is the business of everyone leaning to the right. It's about serifs, and related orthographic flourishes, isn't it? [Edit: the kind of script I mean is angular, straight lines, with vertical strokes meeting diagonal strokes; rather gothic.] Well, those flourishes are facilitated by that kind of nib. Whether that's italic or not, I don't know; but the pen-and-nib sets used to be sold as "Italic pen with set of nibs", or something like that.
- mminer237 4y agoIt sounds like a calligraphy pen, e.g.: https://handwritingsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/pen-examples2.jpg https://handwritingsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/pen-exampl...