Does anyone write by hand anymore?

[Abel.]

I'd say I'm average, but my handwriting is perfectly legible.

 

As for the 'lost art', I believe it is cursive handwriting. How many of you can still do that? I was pretty good with it in kindergarten and primary school, but as I progressed, my words started breaking up. There are only a few words left in my vocabulary that I can write in one single flow.

I've always performed joined up writing to this very day, it's what I'm used to.

[nerner]

I print out letters, but if I am writing a really long passage, like some kind of written coursework, I will join up all writing except the titles.

[The Unvirginiser]

When I'm planning stories I tend to jot down notes and doodle on to a scrap piece of paper just to get my ideas flowing. All through school I was renowned for having the most terrible, unlegible writing ever.

[El Zilcho]

My handwriting is quite neat if I write casually, but when rushing to jot something down, I can sometimes barely read it myself!

 

I rarely write anything (as in creative text) by hand anymore. Of course paper work, letters and questionnaires you have to, but I'm become quite adept at typing very quickly and without making too many mistakes.

[jjcoolj91]

my printing isnt too bad but my cursive writing is never top notch

[WHAT!?]

I used to have very good cursive, however since I joined the Navy they insist everything done in pen should be in print and all in caps... this has really screwed with my penmanship. I'm gaining it back though. I actually try to write personal letters more often now since I have a lot of family that just doesn't use computers. I also force myself to write those letters in cursive until they look good.

 

My grandfather and my father both have excellent... even artistic looking handwriting. I'm not going to be the retard that leaves scribbles behind for my boy. I think its important to be able to express your ideas well without the aid of modern technology.

[Slamman]

I took caligraphy, still have some inked written pages and the pens I suppose, not really sure where all that is, but because I grew up drawing, I think I prefer drawing to paper versus any computer graphics in terms of what I do. I marvel at how small some thumbnail art on PCs are, but I grew up on The Woz's Apple, with it's, what?? 4 colors or so! Now people had to get real damn creative with that!!

 

I neglected to mention all my PC stat findings I put in several spiral notebooks, there's so little order or neatness about it, looks like the ones from John Doe in Se7en!

 

hahaha

 

I am meaning to commit that in an orderly fashion, into MS's Word or OFFICE. Anyone got some good templates I can use?

 

I still write plenty of notes, in actual fact.

[DidierSucks]

Because my schooling requires that I keep extensive (as in, a dozen volumes per trip) of field notes which must be read by other people, I've had to maintain my writing. Being an entomology student, I've also the need to write extremely small letters (to fit on location and det labels the size of your thumbnail) which are unambiguous.

 

Also, as much as the populists would like to disagree, the English language is very static and is an example of a language with an extraordinarily persistent grammar. Middle English... you know, from Medieval times, the language Chaucer spoke... is still intelligible to speakers of so-called "modern" English with some variances in vocabulary and lettering. It has largely the same grammar. There has not been any significant change to the overall structure of English since John Milton was alive aside from otherwise minor changes in pronunciation. Aside from slang and some words becomming archaic, we speak the same English that Jane Austen spoke. And John Donne. And Charles Dickens. And I'd like to remind people here that Shakespeare's dialect was that of the uneducated commoners - English - since Royalty primarily spoke other (foreign) languages at that time. So this bullsh*t about Shakespeare writing in frilly prose is splendidly ironic since that "fanciness" was the language of the illiterate.

 

* FYI Sanskrit grammar is mostly elucidated by declensions of nouns, and so a Sanskrit sentence can more or less have the words in any order and be intelligible.