The lost art of Handwriting

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:47 am

Since keyboards have come to dominate our working and domestic lives, and PIN numbers have been introduced at the checkout, I've noticed that my handwriting has changed through lack of practice. Even the way I hold a pen seems awkward these days. I also have to concentrate when I do my signature. It seems different to the one my kids spend ages learning to copy. Does anyone really write these days?. Will we have forgotten how to write with any flow in years to come? What do you think?

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:51 am

I agree with you on that one,i think it is not only writing but also reading a good book has lost its appeal.Even though i have got my laptop i still give book reading

sometime.And getting back to writing it is a dying art:-1 :-1

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:54 am

Funny you should post this just as I've finished filling in 101 forms :rolleyes: and

hand written a couple of letters, no I haven't lost the art of writing

My wrist is aching though!:-2

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:05 am

Betty Boop;609367 wrote: Funny you should post this just as I've finished filling in 101 forms :rolleyes: and

hand written a couple of letters, no I haven't lost the art of writing

My wrist is aching though!:-2
I know the feeling. I once had to sign 250 documents in one sitting as an exeutor of a will. One of my mates is also familiar with an aching wrist, but that's another story

crazygal · Post by **crazygal** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:09 am

I agree with you Kram and find it really sad. I used to love writing letters to friends and cousins but we just don't anymore. OK so I was a kid but nowadays more likely to email or send a text message. Also with Spell Check (and no this isn't me being a bitch about spelling for a change), people don't have to learn so much as they aren't writing but just learn to be lazy, even at school and use Spell Check instead. I find my 7 year old commenting on bad spelling when I am on MSN where it doesn't even really matter. I hope he doesn't turn into someone who uses the checker instead of learning.

It is faster to type though rather than, if you touch type. That is the thing that makes me want to type a letter rather than write it.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:09 am

Uncle Kram;609373 wrote: I know the feeling. I once had to sign 250 documents in one sitting as an exeutor of a will. One of my mates is also familiar with an aching wrist, but that's another story

I'm sure its an affliction that affects us all from time to time, boy, I love being ambidextrous.

:wah: :wah:

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:35 am

Betty Boop;609376 wrote: I'm sure its an affliction that affects us all from time to time, boy, I love being ambidextrous.

:wah:
One of my friends is ambidextrous but only with his left hand.:rolleyes:

When I fractured my thumb as a teenager, I learned to write left-handed. It was nowhere near as good as my normal writing, but it was probably better that the scrawl I produce now

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:37 am

Uncle Kram;609395 wrote: One of my friends is ambidextrous but only with his left hand.:rolleyes:

When I fractured my thumb as a teenager, I learned to write left-handed. It was nowhere near as good as my normal writing, but it was probably better that the scrawl I produce now

Us left handers are so clever!

:wah:

CrazyCruizChick · Post by **CrazyCruizChick** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:43 am

This is so true I remember writing a lot more before I had a computer and to think about it a bit more I was always a lot more busy and happier.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:14 am

I was born left handed and made to convert so my handwriting has always been crappy anyway......it's not my fault.........my hands are just confused, that's all....or would it be my brain that's confused........:yh_think .....anyway, what were we talking about........

crazygal · Post by **crazygal** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:16 am

I'm also left-handed, more intelligent

CrazyCruizChick · Post by **CrazyCruizChick** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:22 am

crazygal;609442 wrote: I'm also left-handed, more intelligent

So am I

My ex always used to say that I was a sinister person because I was left handed lol.

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed May 09, 2007 7:54 am

I still get complimented on my printing and hand writing, but then again.... I spent hours upon hours perfecting it back in the day of being a manual draftsman I had to use "letter perfect" printing for years.

I still enjoy hand writing. In moments of feeling creative about writing, I do it by hand... keyboard style kind of numbs my thought process.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:07 am

minks;609501 wrote: I still get complimented on my printing and hand writing, but then again.... I spent hours upon hours perfecting it back in the day of being a manual draftsman I had to use "letter perfect" printing for years.

I still enjoy hand writing. In moments of feeling creative about writing, I do it by hand... keyboard style kind of numbs my thought process.
Although my handwriting isn't what it was, most of my writing is in capitals only, for the same reason as you Minks. I was looking at some old drawings I did for buildings in Baghdad in the 70's the other day and was amazed at how neat the text was back then.

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:15 am

Very interesting that you bring this up.... I commented in a card not too long ago...why I prefer to type or send e-cards...I was messing up horribly, which I hate to do on cards to people. I'm so used to typing that when it comes to handwriting...UGH!!

But I do like sending people cards/letters just guilty of letting time slip by.

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:27 am

CrazyCruizChick;609449 wrote: So am I

My ex always used to say that I was a sinister person because I was left handed lol.

That comes from, Sinistra.....Italian for left, CCC!...

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:29 am

Betty Boop;609398 wrote: Us left handers are so clever!

:wah:

That is So, So, True!.....

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:19 am

Uncle Kram;609507 wrote: Although my handwriting isn't what it was, most of my writing is in capitals only, for the same reason as you Minks. I was looking at some old drawings I did for buildings in Baghdad in the 70's the other day and was amazed at how neat the text was back then.

Funny that eh, and yes I bet if I looked back, my printing back then would be far neater and tidier than it is today.

Yes I too did most of the printing in Caps. And I still do my numbers as perfect as I can as I am back into parts and pieces so you have to be able to tell a 1 from an I and a 2 from a 7 ahahaha

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:21 am

WonderWendy3;609510 wrote: Very interesting that you bring this up.... I commented in a card not too long ago...why I prefer to type or send e-cards...I was messing up horribly, which I hate to do on cards to people. I'm so used to typing that when it comes to handwriting...UGH!!

But I do like sending people cards/letters just guilty of letting time slip by.

*giggles*

Awwwww WW3 thas ok.

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:25 am

minks;609577 wrote: *giggles*

Awwwww WW3 thas ok.

^^^^ recipient of Wendy's scribble!!^^^^^

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:25 am

WonderWendy3;609582 wrote: ^^^^ recipient of Wendy's scribble!!^^^^^

and I loved it dearly

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:21 pm

I recently read an article that featured reproductions of actual letters written by WW I Canadian soldiers to their family.

What is truly amazing is the eloquence of these letters, and the beautiful penmanship by these late teenage - early twenties lads who chiefly came from farms, with little formal education.

Comparing their letters to the lame scrawl of many of their contemporaries, ninety years later, with university educations and all, makes you despair about our modern society.

BTW, we lost our second last WW I vet today. Percy Dwight Wilson was 106. He lied about his age (he was all of 15) and enlisted in 1916.

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crazygal · Post by **crazygal** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:49 pm

CrazyCruizChick;609449 wrote: So am I

My ex always used to say that I was a sinister person because I was left handed lol.
I would have to agree that we are too.

pinkchick · Post by **pinkchick** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:52 pm

crazygal;612152 wrote: I would have to agree that we are too.

ummm..... I've always been led to believe that left handed people are special - not sinister:)

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Sun May 13, 2007 2:00 pm

Truth Sista. Us is verra special.

I mean any idiot (even me) can write with their right hand.

Mind you, I usually use a pen.