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As a counter example, I'm left handed and write hundreds of pages per year in a left-to-right language and don't have issues with smudging lines with my palm.
by avian 1y ago
As a counter example, I'm left handed and write hundreds of pages per year in a left-to-right language and don't have issues with smudging lines with my palm.
Maybe the inks I use dry fast enough (Parker Quink or Pelikan 4001) or it's the way I learned to write back in school.
- bayindirh 1y agoI’d argue hand technique is more important than inks. I have wet pens with slower drying inks, and I write a similar amount without any smudges.
- triknomeister 1y agoI'm right handed and used to smudge ink, don't ask me how. Only now, with my notebooks at 90 degree angle can I write properly without smudging.
- radicalbyte 1y agoYou're probably doing the lefty-handed-curl. If you adopt a really weird writing position you can write without smudges. Depending on your body-type it's either easy and obvious or very uncomfortable. I'm in the latter group so I just use a pencil.
- Theodores 1y agoEuch. That lefty-handed-curl is a solution proposed by the right handed world. The correct way to write as a left handed person is to turn the page ninety degrees.
- hydrogen7800 1y agoMy left-handed father always turned the page 90 deg to the right when given something to sign, with the left side of the line up. He caught hell for that in catholic school.
- nordsieck 1y ago> The correct way to write as a left handed person is to turn the page ninety degrees. That is such a genius solution!
- Dilettante_ 1y agoOr play it like DaVinci and write mirrored, right-to-left.
- avian 1y agoI looked up some pictures of this lefty-handed curl and I suddenly feel immense gratitude towards the people from my childhood that taught me how to use my left hand to write in a practical and comfortable manner.