Handwriting

[simont]

[Poll #1324167]

eta: I forgot to say so specifically, but I hope the people who have ticked "something else interesting" will say what it was :-)

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[huggyrei.livejournal.com]

Just in case you're interested:

I tend to write joined-up, however I always disliked the fact that several letters no longer looked the same when joined up, so I tend to take the pen off and do half-joined half-printed for these letters (most of the options in your second lot, hence why I exhibit none of those features). I use crossbars for z's, a habbit acquired from doing a lot of maths, where the lecturers tend to do that so as to avoid getting Z confused with 2 when writing equations.

If I want to write in a way that is legible to anyone else, I usually print since my joined-up is pretty scrawly to anyone who isn't me (I tend to write too fast, and printing forces me to slow down).

[simont]

Mmm. Yes, the concept of letters with a distinctively different cursive form from their printed form is part of what was interesting me about the whole idea. It's even more pronounced in Cyrillic (if I remember correctly from a few half-hearted Russian lessons I had in the 6th form): a few letters look so different that a non-native reader wouldn't even recognise them as the same letter without being told. Though, I suppose, a non-native reader of the Roman alphabet might justifiably think the same about our single- and double-storey 'a'.

[pm215]

Speaking of the Roman alphabet, have you seen Roman Cursive (as used in things like the Vindolanda tablets)?

[lnr]

In all those respects you are almost entirely like me!