{"id":7199,"date":"2012-02-18T22:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T03:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2012-02-19T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:23:25","slug":"rebooting-the-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/rebooting-the-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"rebooting the handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crapwriting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7205\" title=\"crapwriting\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crapwriting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crapwriting.jpg 421w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crapwriting-160x112.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crapwriting-320x225.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a>My handwriting is <em>atrocious<\/em>. It&#8217;s scrawly, uneven, with malformed letters (<strong>r<\/strong> never recovered from Miss MacFarlane&#8217;s ligatures, <strong>t<\/strong> usually left unstroked) meandering up and down the line. It&#8217;s got blotchy, affected borrowings, too: tailed and stroked <strong>1<\/strong>s and <strong>7<\/strong>s in the European style, and a <strong>d<\/strong> that was least seen in a partial differential: \u00f0\u009d\u203a\u00bf. In short, a style all my own, wanted by none.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/handwriting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7200\" title=\"handwriting\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/handwriting-247x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/handwriting-247x320.jpg 247w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/handwriting-123x160.jpg 123w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/handwriting-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/handwriting.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d prefer to have my handwriting legible to others, and even by me. I don&#8217;t want my notebooks to look like a spider&#8217;s hauled its bedraggled carapace out of the inkwell onto the page. Unfortunately, cursive is right out to learn. I can&#8217;t read it, in any style. In fact, I find the German <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suetterlinschrift.de\/Englisch\/Sutterlin.htm\">S\u00c3\u00bctterlin<\/a> to be as logical to learn, as I can&#8217;t read that either, but at least it looks badass.<\/p>\n<p>The style I&#8217;m trying is <a href=\"http:\/\/donnayoung.org\/penmanship\/sm-pre-cursive.htm\">pre-cursive<\/a>. Yes, it&#8217;s meant as a transition from printing to cursive, but I like its simple clean italic lines. I imagine I&#8217;ll join it up a deal more when I&#8217;m writing quickly. The hardest part for me is sticking to the line and stopping my writing wandering off up the page.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how this goes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(and thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/208298\/I-want-to-write-right#3003800\">I want to write right! | Ask MetaFilter<\/a> for the suggestions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My handwriting is atrocious. It&#8217;s scrawly, uneven, with malformed letters (r never recovered from Miss MacFarlane&#8217;s ligatures, t usually left unstroked) meandering up and down the line. It&#8217;s got blotchy, affected borrowings, too: tailed and stroked 1s and 7s in the European style, and a d that was least seen in a partial differential: \u00f0\u009d\u203a\u00bf. 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