Can you write?

[mjohnson]

Yes I can write, but it's taken work over time.

Childhood - crap of course. It was the '80s and "keyboarding" was getting big.
College - engineering school, clear drafting printing and all that
15y of work - slowly degrading drafting printing

Then for some stupid reason a colleague got me into fountain pens. Eventually got into custom nibs and the whole deal. I forced myself to step back and learn cursive. No, it wouldn't satisfy old Mrs. Thompson in 1985, but I can write a page of it, quickly, and hand it to a >40 year old and they can read it easily. Younguns think it's some strange code though...

It was worth the mental exercise to re-develop the skill. Other than at my desk, I work in a non-electronics environment so written notes are everything. No paper - it didn't get written down. Not written down - it didn't happen.

[KFC911]

Yep...I just can't read mine.

Sharpens the memory

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by NoRush993/951

Very nicely said!
The thoughts of a gentleman for certain.
+1

Jeff is an architect (artistic?)....what do you do? The rest of us IT geeks and engineers think yer FOS

[ckelly78z]

I handwrite many labels every day, and still write notes to myself on sticky notes (don't use my phone)....so handwriting is still neat, and legible.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I like to send handwritten notes in cards and letters, the typewritten ones I get on occasion are nice in content but lacking in some way. Writing can be meditative as you have to sit and slow your life down a little to do it effectively.

That said, my signature, on nearly anything short of a legal document, is nothing more than a long N-shaped wave. Just a swoosh. I get slightly annoyed at people in self-checkout lines carefully, and slowly, glacially, writing out their signature with the stylus on the tiny screen.

[NY65912]

Yes,

Cursive and technical

Write all day long.

[id10t]

was given a choice of learning to write cursive or type in 4th grade, and since the typing was on the computers.....

So I can write cursive, sorta, but you ain't gonna read it. Maybe a nurse after a few years of hospital work can. Actually, have a hard time reading not-quite-great cursive writing.

But I can type like a mofo, feel mis-strokes and auto correct w/ backspace, etc. Freaks the coworkers out when I'm talking about coding and typing, and when done with both, the code is mostly written.

[id10t]

For the truly lazy amongst us, somewhere in my Stuff I have a cursive printing ball for a IBM selectric type writer...

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Today’s society is all about quantity, not quality. Too much “engineering” and practicality and pure efficiency used as the barometer of value and not enough expression, beauty, style or elegance.

Absolutely. I see it in old machinery. They put some style in the most mundane things 100 years ago. I miss it.



1918




2018

[wdfifteen]

^^
Having said that, no, I cannot write well. I try, but my handwriting still looks awful.

[Zeke]

You can't read my signature. It looks like ^>^<

My dad wrote in printed caps and so do I to the extent that you can read it. I write on the grocery list, that's it. Oh, check once in awhile.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my friends laughs about his 12 and 14 year old boys. When they were lots younger my buddy would spell many words to his wife when they did not want the kids to know what they were talking about. He says now his wife just writes cursive to him, he will laugh and reply in cursive. It drives the kids nuts, he tells them to get educated, and learn how to read and write by hand.

I write notes to myself or in the middle of a project. It is weird how my brain tells my hand to write a word and my hand will transpose the letters, or leave out a letter. The good news for me is that I can decipher my notes to myself. It is simple lack of practice.

[Tobra]

Yes

My signature is illegible, but repeatable and I can do it very, very quickly.

[yellowperil]

Originally Posted by javadog

Yes, I can. Cursive, block letters, backwards, left-handed.

No problèmo...