do you have good penmanship?

[soocool]

I went to catholic school through high school. You had to have great penmanship. They drilled it into you. Now whenever I have to sign a document, many people ask me if I went to catholic school because of the great penmanship.

In college and grad school, the profs loved me for my great penmanship and noted it quite constantly on my papers (pre-computer age... yes, dinosaur era!).

 

[isaku5]

Date: 5/19/2009 11:41:21 PM
Author: AGBF


do you have good penmanship?


It is extremely good, thank you . When I briefly taught school a couple of years ago I inadvertently caused a ruckus by writing ''in cursive'' on the blackboard. No one had told me that a series of laws against cursive writing had been passed and that children could no longer decipher it, even by eighth grade.

AGBF

What??? Writing in cursive on the blackboard is against the law?? Let me guess the reason: the kids learning ESL have difficulty with it?? If it isn''t that, then I have no idea why. Please explain...

 

[isaku5]

Date: 5/20/2009 11:12:14 AM
Author: isaku5

Date: 5/19/2009 11:41:21 PM
Author: AGBF


do you have good penmanship?


It is extremely good, thank you . When I briefly taught school a couple of years ago I inadvertently caused a ruckus by writing ''in cursive'' on the blackboard. No one had told me that a series of laws against cursive writing had been passed and that children could no longer decipher it, even by eighth grade.

AGBF

What??? Writing in cursive on the blackboard is against the law?? Let me guess the reason: the kids learning ESL have difficulty with it?? If it isn''t that, then I have no idea why. Please explain...

No further explanation needed for me as I just learned a valuable lesson: Read the entire thread before replying.

Ya got me good too

 

[AGBF]

Date: 5/20/2009 11:19:27 AM
Author: isaku5

No further explanation needed for me as I just learned a valuable lesson: Read the entire thread before replying.

Ya got me good too

Isabel,

I assure you that I wasn't trying to "get" you or MonkeyPie! I wasn't trying to fool anyone and I am sorry that anyone misunderstood me. I just have a dry, ironical sense of humor. Sometimes this is misunderstood. I never replied to the thread about leaving a legacy on Pricescope, but if I leave one it should probably include being misunderstood for my irony on numerous occasions .

I do especially poorly with new, paranoid posters. Thank all that is good that neither you nor MonkeyPie is either new or paranoid or I would have a new enemy and be apologizing all over the place as I have had to do on numerous other occasions!!!

AGBF

 

[Lorelei]

My handwriting is dreadful.

 

[AprilBaby]

My handwriting is beyond excellent! But then again I am old. It was the only subject at school I excelled in!

It kills me to see wedding invitations come that look like they were written (or say I say printed) by a second grader.

 

[Dancing Fire]

i had a really strict teacher in 6th grade,so everything started going down hill after 6th grade,forgot all my vocabularies, poor grammers and spellings,don''t know how to write in cursive anymore

so go ahead and laugh at my 6th grade english.

 

[crown1]

Date: 5/19/2009 11:57:55 PM
Author: AGBF

Date: 5/19/2009 11:45:34 PM

Author: MonkeyPie

Date: 5/19/2009 11:41:21 PM

Author: AGBF


do you have good penmanship?


It is extremely good, thank you . When I briefly taught school a couple of years ago I inadvertently caused a ruckus by writing ''in cursive'' on the blackboard. No one had told me that a series of laws against cursive writing had been passed and that children could no longer decipher it, even by eighth grade.

That''s very interesting! Where were you living at the time?

I''m sorry, MokeyPie. I was being facetious about the ''series of laws''. I meant that the children had so little ability to read script/cursive writing that the only logical explanation for such a lapse would be that legislation barring them from learning it must have been passed! It was a joke.


I assume that you now don''t want to know where I was living!!!


Hugs,

AGBF

that is interesting that the children were having problems reading cursive. do you think they were putting you on or is this really a problem? if you said what age i missed it.

 

[tlh]

hmm, I dont know... but my handwriting looks HORRIBLE. I guess that is why I type.

 

[crown1]

Date: 5/20/2009 2:11:16 AM
Author: pennquaker09
Not my best, because a good example.


I told my students that if I couldn''t read their work, it was going in file 13, Anyone have a clue what that means?

sure the trashcan.

 

[musey]

I like my handwriting

it''s mostly legible, but messy enough to look interesting. Oddly enough, it looks almost exactly like Barack Obama''s

whatever that means!

 

[Erin]

Filing out a form looks like perfect Century Gothic (kinda like Futura). My favorite font. Wide open, perfectly balanced, spaced apart.

Writing in cursive has my own left handed flair (it doesn''t lean) for loops and good height/weight balance.

If I''m taking notes for no one else to read but me, I have my own version of shorthand that most people cannot read, but I always can.

 

[TravelingGal]

Date: 5/20/2009 12:21:09 PM
Author: AGBF

Date: 5/20/2009 11:19:27 AM
Author: isaku5

No further explanation needed for me as I just learned a valuable lesson: Read the entire thread before replying.

Ya got me good too

Isabel,

I assure you that I wasn''t trying to ''get'' you or MonkeyPie! I wasn''t trying to fool anyone and I am sorry that anyone misunderstood me. I just have a dry, ironical sense of humor. Sometimes this is misunderstood. I never replied to the thread about leaving a legacy on Pricescope, but if I leave one it should probably include being misunderstood for my irony on numerous occasions .

I do especially poorly with new, paranoid posters. Thank all that is good that neither you nor MonkeyPie is either new or paranoid or I would have a new enemy and be apologizing all over the place as I have had to do on numerous other occasions!!!

AGBF

LOL, I got your joke AGBF. I am actually surprised that so many younger ladies can''t write in cursive, but I guess it makes sense since everyone uses a computer these days. God, I was only in college in the early 90''s, and for one of my senior papers the professor allowed us to turn it in HANDWRITTEN, which I did because I wasn''t a good typist back then.

Actually, I''m curious. What do people do when they are English majors these days? We had blue books we brought to class and had to write essays within the time alloted for the final exam. Do they still do it that way or do you type with a computer and give the professor a file or something?

 

[LAJennifer]

Date: 5/20/2009 2:11:16 AM
Author: pennquaker09
Not my best, because a good example.

I told my students that if I couldn''t read their work, it was going in file 13, Anyone have a clue what that means?

Penn - your handwriting is beautiful. Mine - not so much. File 13 - the TRASH!!!

 

[Burk]

My handwriting is okay. I guess it has to be since I''m a teacher and I write on the board a lot. I tend to write very large bubbly print letters. My cursive is hard to read.

 

[Italiahaircolor]

I have pretty good handwritting...people compliment me on it often.

 

[bee*]

I like my handwriting and think that it''s nice most of the time-unless I''m in a hurry and then it''s just a scribble.

 

[pennquaker09]

I'm a huge fan of cursive. It is definitely a dying art. I started learning cursive in the 2nd grade and it's been my preferred method of writing ever since. I always got the best handwritting award; the girls hated that.

Nothing would bother me more than a student that did their math in PEN and it was barely legible.

 

[elrohwen]

I do. I always got the penmanship awards in elementary school

Actually, I'm always taking notes at work and people will look at my notebook and say it looks like it's typed (which seems silly to me ... it doesn't look that neat to me). Sometimes we'll be collecting data and someone else will start writing things down and I always joke that they messed up my perfectly neat data table and I'll have to re-write it all

(my OCD stops at actually re-copying the data, but in my younger days I might have done it).

ETA: I almost always print, but my cursive is really nice too. With a fountain pen I can actually take a decent stab at calligraphy, but I'm such a perfectionist about it that I decided not to try for my wedding invites because it would take me forever and I'd never be happy with them.

 

[packrat]

Sometimes it''s ok..mostly no. My husband informs me it''s too swirly and wild. I also do an odd cursive/print combo. Mom has really pretty penmanship tho. My dad..sadly looks like he writes w/his toes. 2 notes he left for mom we never tire of teasing him about were "Wank dunkers" and "Busy shitters"..mom and I came up with every possibility we could think of..turns out they were "Wash dishes" and "Buy skittles".

 

[princessplease]

Sometimes, when I feel like it. I scribble down things very quickly at work, but if I try to write neatly, I can.

 

[PinkTower]

My handwriting is neat; I am a teacher. I teach my chldren to write in cursive from the start. They all write in cursive when they leave to go to first grade. Little children learn to speak or to write with little effort in the proper environment. Also, the little ones have an intrinsic love of writing. What becomes drudgery later is fun for the young child.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

My cursive is very good and unique. People have paid me to address wedding invites before.

 

[icekid]

Nah, I''m a doctor

Actually, my writing is always legible. But... it is getting more and more messy

I actually like my writing style. Though my friend did once describe it as a "cheap font."

 

[D&T]

nope, its gone downhill fast, since the age of emails has replaced my letter writing.

 

[HollyS]

For the most part. I've been told that I've been interviewed for jobs because of my handwriting on the application. And now that I'm the boss, I've tossed apps from people whose writing was atrocious; my thought is they're either lazy, unintelligent, or much too self assured in their own fabulousness to have decent handwriting.

Yeah. I'm judgmental.

 

[MonkeyPants]

My penmanship is horrible! I''ve made several failed attempts to improve it, but I think since I grew up in a generation of instant gratification, I don''t have the patience to have nice handwriting. I feel like typing is so much faster and more efficient, so now when I hand write something I get frustrated that I can''t write as fast as I think...I know, sad...

But SO''s mother has beautiful handwriting. Seriously, I want her to hand-write our wedding invitations. Of course I would never ask her to do that though!

 

[misskitty]

My "everyday" handwriting is atrocious. I''m a software developer, though, so I spend much more time typing than handwriting.

My calligraphy and Cyrillic penmanship are very good. It''s just regular print that I go lazy on.

 

[tigian]

Not really. It is legible, but my mom says it looks like a 10 year olds.

 

[AdiS]

Yes, pretty good. In fact, all my fellow-students at the university used to make copies of my notebooks when they missed a lecture so it means it''s legible enough even when I''m in a hurry.