A lot of 'em would be in Crayon :D

as they should be. they would be drawings..stick figures throwing the middle finger.

and the orange crayon would be a tiny nub, coloring in all those Trump drawings.

I remember my grade school teacher laying a protractor on top of our handwriting to make sure that we were using the correct angle/slant on the letters.
If it wasn't within her liking...extra work was coming.

^^^ I would have never made it to junior high....ever :(.

can always spot a Marine by his writing that way

Or they would get some serious lead in their pencil, and write a letter to themselves - in shorthand :eek:

I'm left handed and taught script by a right handed teacher. My handwritng is horrible: I angle the paper the wrong way for a lefty and the way I hold a writing intrument is awkward. In high school, I took a drafting class where I learned to print and I print very well. My mom tells the story that she held her breath when I told her I was taking the class - my writing was that bad. That was a long time ago

I still write and print to today - I'm an engineer, I'm a note taker. I'm too old for one note. The last letter I wrote was to a woman who I have an interest in. I included it in a birthday card I gave to her. I rewrote it 3 times before I was satisfied she could read it. She appreciated it.

and to be official would need to be on paper that still had chunks of wood in it.

Not really a letter....just a short note some time back...still took me a couple of attempts. My handwriting was sooooo bad...it actually made her cry :D!

True story....

Well, I guess every letter I type is done with my hands. Yea, that is not what ya meant, but typing is writing by hand! ;)

oh wow, I can't even remember when, many years ago :lol:

Probably high-school, in the early 1980's. By the end of high-school, I was typing reports on our main-frame computer system (text files, not word processing).

In College (1983), I took a tiny little thermal typewriter to an English final exam. It was smaller than a notebook computer and used full size sheets of paper. It could double as a serial printer for early PCs.

I have extremely poor handwriting.

Sent a post card 3 weeks ago. I still send actual postcards and LETTERS takes about a lil bit more time as a well composed email- impact: x 1000! Long live the US Post Office!

so there is a huge Fountain pen movement, no? what are those guys doing with them? just looking at them?