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via a bunch of folks.
1) Your name / username: duh?
2) Left or right handed: Right-handed.
3) Favorite letters to write: Um. S? Q? (I like capital Q) X? Th (the combination)? I get little ligatures on my th's and s's sometimes which I think are cool. For example:
(The last word there, which is ever so readable, is "Severus". I reeeealllly run the letters together in that one. It magically happens to combine many of my sloppiest-written letters.)
4) Least favorite characters to write: as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_bitter_word, probably my signature, although I hate that a lot less now that I have a four-character last name instead of an eleven-character one.
5) Write "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
Don't you love how legible that is? Especially the word "over"? And that g on the end of "dog". Actually I think my g's are perfectly readable as long as they're in context, but I've had people complain that the way they'd immediately read the last word there is "dos".
My o's tend to open into c's because I don't complete the circle of the o; it's worse after crossed letters like f or t (although the one in "brown" is pretty bad there too). My j's tend to descend way too far, and have the top of the stem (?) be at or near text baseline.
That phrase is wrong, by the way; it should be "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog". The switching "a" for "the" doesn't hurt anything (just adds two characters) but by putting the verb in the past tense, the sentence is no longer a pangram (containing every letter in the English alphabet). More pangrams (my favourite is probably "Ebenezer unexpectedly bagged two tranquil aardvarks with his jiffy vacuum cleaner").
6) Not with the tagging.
7)venturous1 added: Do you ever write fan fiction or personal letters by hand? I don't think I write personal letters at all anymore. Email has pretty much entirely filled that niche, not that I was ever a big letter-writer to begin with. As for fanfic, actually I do sometimes, although not complete stories (unless they're just a couple hundred words). Usually this is when I've jotted down an idea I got while lying in bed, or sometimes because I feel all self-conscious with my husband sitting right next to me at his computer, so if I take the notebook over on the bed where he can't see, it's easier. Here's a sample of just how readable that is:
and just for larfs, given the icon, which seemed appropriate to a meme about people's characteristic scrawlings:
(What? Didn't you know "Prince" was spelled P n n u?)
1) Your name / username: duh?
2) Left or right handed: Right-handed.
3) Favorite letters to write: Um. S? Q? (I like capital Q) X? Th (the combination)? I get little ligatures on my th's and s's sometimes which I think are cool. For example:
(The last word there, which is ever so readable, is "Severus". I reeeealllly run the letters together in that one. It magically happens to combine many of my sloppiest-written letters.)
4) Least favorite characters to write: as
the_bitter_word, probably my signature, although I hate that a lot less now that I have a four-character last name instead of an eleven-character one.5) Write "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
Don't you love how legible that is? Especially the word "over"? And that g on the end of "dog". Actually I think my g's are perfectly readable as long as they're in context, but I've had people complain that the way they'd immediately read the last word there is "dos".
My o's tend to open into c's because I don't complete the circle of the o; it's worse after crossed letters like f or t (although the one in "brown" is pretty bad there too). My j's tend to descend way too far, and have the top of the stem (?) be at or near text baseline.
That phrase is wrong, by the way; it should be "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog". The switching "a" for "the" doesn't hurt anything (just adds two characters) but by putting the verb in the past tense, the sentence is no longer a pangram (containing every letter in the English alphabet). More pangrams (my favourite is probably "Ebenezer unexpectedly bagged two tranquil aardvarks with his jiffy vacuum cleaner").
6) Not with the tagging.
7)
venturous1 added: Do you ever write fan fiction or personal letters by hand? I don't think I write personal letters at all anymore. Email has pretty much entirely filled that niche, not that I was ever a big letter-writer to begin with. As for fanfic, actually I do sometimes, although not complete stories (unless they're just a couple hundred words). Usually this is when I've jotted down an idea I got while lying in bed, or sometimes because I feel all self-conscious with my husband sitting right next to me at his computer, so if I take the notebook over on the bed where he can't see, it's easier. Here's a sample of just how readable that is: and just for larfs, given the icon, which seemed appropriate to a meme about people's characteristic scrawlings:
(What? Didn't you know "Prince" was spelled P n n u?)
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Date: September 20th, 2008 11:40 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: September 20th, 2008 08:45 pm (UTC)From:I sympathize with typing letters, but if you're actually going to the trouble of paper you probably ought to sign in ink at least.
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Date: September 20th, 2008 06:14 pm (UTC)From:You're writing looks like how I imagine Severus' to be. How interesting.
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Date: September 20th, 2008 08:41 pm (UTC)From:You're writing looks like how I imagine Severus' to be.
That's... odd. Doesn't come across as anywhere near "spiky" enough to me, especially with the flowing little flourishes on th and st and stuff.