handwriting meme

[arcanetrivia]

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 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?)

Comments

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

My cursive writing is crap, which is why I print all the time, except for when I have to sign my name to something. It looks dreadful, not at all elegant. Having to sign with an electronic pen is the worst, because it comes out looking like something a kindergartener would do. Anymore, I write all my letters on my computer, even though the etiquette books tell you that that's very impersonal. Personally, I'd rather be perceived as distant rather than give my friends a blinding headache from trying to decipher my scratches and scrawls.

[lilyevans-snape.livejournal.com]

My handwriting is a mixture of cursive and printing. Everything just got all mushed up together at some point. Another odd thing is that my handwriting changes all the time, sometimes from paragraph to paragraph depending on my mood. I would hate to have a professional analyze it. They would probably come out assuming that I had Multiple Personality Disorder.

You're writing looks like how I imagine Severus' to be. How interesting.