the (w)rite type 1313 Responses

Last post: 4 months ago | Thread started: Aug 3, 08, 6:39 a.m.

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• honest

  On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 as the lowest, how do you rate your handwriting Vs typing skill?

  Aug 3, 08, 6:39 a.m. – Permalink

• honest

  5 Vs 8

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 6:39 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Why?

  '4 vs 8', maybe? I write so little these days, it almost physically hurts when i try writing manually and I rue the lack of a delete button and dynamic word-swapping. Ctrl + shift + cursor left, ctrl + c, then shift cursor, then ctrl + v are powerful tools.

  Handwriting's sooooo 17th Century.

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 6:45 a.m. – Permalink

• honest

  ah, but there's value in handwriting. what is more touching, a note from your loved one on email or handwritten? Would you sign your wedding vows with an email signature? I find people's handwriting is degrading in quality these days.

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 6:58 a.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  my handwriting CAN be good when I'm not lazy... actually... it's rather legible, clean... and dare I say 'pretty'?

  But the majority of my writing is half-formed characters written at speeds in which humans were never meant to write... and i think it's because my fingers are far faster typing than my hand scribing alone...

  ... I still like to sketch layouts, modules, figures etc for design before I toss them on screen... but that's much different than writing... when I try and write-in notes next to my sketches... yeah - you can't read them afterward.

  I agree with you on the personal letters and signing items in which you want people to 'feel' like you personally made this for them... it's definitely a more satisfying 'human' approach.

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  I blame my generation and the current generation's parents for letting us at Bulletin Boards and now the Internet...

  ... ever meet an older lady who DIDN'T have the most beautiful penmanship you'd ever seen? My Grandmother's handwriting is incredible - right out of a storybook... Old women have always written a lot though... which leads me to my final point...

  ... it's all about how frequently you write. :)

  • jeeeeeeeez that was a long-ass post for a sunday morning...
    SORRY!!!!– PonyBoy1/5

    oh...
    5:9 is my 'rating' :)– PonyBoy2/5

    Aye, i suppose i meant writing vast tracts of stuff, like at school - I scrawl and doodle constantly.– detritus3/5

    ..as long as I can read my own wiring, that's all that matters. God help them if someone had to go through my notes!– detritus4/5

    wiring?
    2:3– detritus5/5

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 8:10 a.m. – Permalink

• Dr_Rand

  what do you mean by typing skill? how fast/accurately you type?
  vs how good your handwriting looks? it seems like apples and oranges, fish vs bicycle

  • tartar sauce vs. BMW– PonyBoy1/2

    on vs checkers– jaylarson2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 8:58 a.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 9:23 a.m. – Permalink

• rounce

  3 : 9

  I'm in the same camp as PonyBoy as in I can count the number of people who can read my writing on my fingers. On the other hand (Oh, HO HO HO) I'm terrible at multitasking but I can type and keep a conversation with several people or talk on the phone while I hammer out MXML or Actionscript or whatever the fuck they've got me doing on any given day.

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 9:40 a.m. – Permalink

• Jnr_Madison

  I've had to write in block capitals since the age of about 18 since even I can't fucking read my own handwriting.

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 10:19 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  I am great at emoticons

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 12:55 p.m. – Permalink

• bulletfactory

  my typing is much more legible

  • lol– detritus

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 12:58 p.m. – Permalink

• honest

  they say dyslexic people have a tendency to write in block caps, I know I do.

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 1:10 p.m. – Permalink

• PeterH

  3. Legible but only with an effort

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 8:37 p.m. – Permalink

• pencilpants

  my handwriting starts out pretty nice, but as i go on it gets less and less legible because i get impatient, start hurrying and scribbling...too used to typing i suppose

  

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  Dog-earAug 3, 08, 11:29 p.m. – Permalink