Your nasty handwriting

AXavierB

So I'm working for a friend. This week she has me entering contact information into a database from people who write in to her. Problem is these niggas insist on writing in cursive. I don't want to sit around trying to decipher everyone's goddamn Hylian. >:V

IanExMachina

Cursive is the sign of proper education, those who print are likely to be less educated.

This is what my education has taught me, and from my experience so far in the UK it isn't too far off.

AXavierB

:C

DonZabu

Fuck cursive.

IanExMachina

Well cursive is done from like age 6, so it is regarded as the proper and common writing method. 

Personally I prefer how you can flow letters together.

Those who can't are regarded as less educated, my examples come from the majority of those who are chavs.

Edit:

To make it clear I'm still referring to the UK only like my first post in this thread.

Gelzo

Ian... your posts...

You seem to be making assumptions that such notions are widespread outside your culture and even valid, and ignoring that print tends to be much more legible and thus practical.

IanExMachina

Oh no I've clarified in the UK in my first post.

I also mentioned that it was what my years of education have taught me.

I've not said anything about any other culture, only my own.

My personal view is as already said: I like cursive as the flowyness of the letters.

DonZabu

The way I write, the letters flow together, but the letters still look like print. I'll see if I can get a photo of my handwriting.

Gelzo

Damn. Sorry.

For some reason I was thinking you agreed with those perceptions. You can see how the first one could be misleading though, right?

IanExMachina

No worries.

I like cursive, but it doesn't really matter how people write. However the education system teaches it from base over here so it is regarded as the norm.

Chagen

"the education system teaches it from base over here so it is regarded as the norm."

What the fuck is wrong with the UK

why would you do that to children

why

WHY

IanExMachina

As said, cursive is the norm.

Printing when an adult is as I've been taught, 'less educated'.

Forzare

Chagen...

-_-

Nyktos

Eh, that's true in other places (or at least around here) to an extent, but nobody really cares past a point.

inkblot

...How did you know?

TheMightyAnonym

*reads thread title*

HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?!

DonZabu

This thread is now "post your handwriting":

Central Avenue

I'm down with that:

Bob

It depends on who's writing. Some people manage to make cursive legible, some write it as if it's calligraphy (i.e. really pretty, but totally unable to follow), and some just suck at writing in cursive and somehow make it look like complete shit.

Then again, I guess that's pretty obvious.

Vorpy

Er, ignore the test drawing. It was the only spare index card I could find.

Vorpy

Here's some Nasty Handwriting for you guys, in both contexts. Have my worst, ya little girls.

Forzare

DonZabu

You're a regular James Joyce, Vorpy.

MillerCross

...Vorpy...

why are you scanning our letters to each other? What happened to our privacy? ;_;

Nyktos

Closest available handwriting sample:

Longfellow

My handwriting is super-small and super-neat. I do my "a's" with the hook on top, my "g's" with the reverse bottom squiggle, and my "z's" with the cross through them.

AXavierB

I said "Fuck this I've filled my work quota for today anyway." Couldn't even figure out this person's address! >:V