A little better...
The sad part is that's about as good as it gets - I'm taking my time and writing carefully here, and that's the best I can do. I really do think that using a computer as much as I have been the past 15 or so years has really had a significant impact on my ability to put pen to paper. If I were to go back to college now I'd have to bring a laptop to class with me to take notes...
Otherwise I'd wind up reading through my notes and wondering why I jotted down "Acorn lebbel fluh" in my Chemistry class...
That is all.
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Much better than I can do, Jay. I can't even sign my name. Due to the engineering background and umpteen years on the drawing board,I print in caps and am good at it. Give that a try. Jack.
Same here. I can barely write anything by hand these days.
Lack of spell check is a feature, not a bug.
That said, I can't write by hand worth a darn either. I had a friend who claimed that writing by hand (with a fountain pen, no less) requires you to slow down and think about what you're writing. I don't have the attention span for that.
Do you owe royalties to Marko on posts like this?
It's okay, I credited Major Caudill...
Yep, handwriting takes continued practice. I used to have a very distinctive and efficient style (like Jack, printing) for written reports but fell out of practice in my current job and using a computer.
I recently started looking for a new job and was horrified to see how far my penmanship had deteriorated when I had to fill out the first application...
BTW, printing is the only thing taught in schools, now. Cursive was dropped several years back by almost all of them.
I paid for my last three years of college working as a draftsman, before CAD and word processors. There was a time when I could print free hand so neatly that it look like lettering done with a rapid-o-graph set.
But 20 years at a keyboard have almost destroyed that. A few years ago I started making a point of handwriting a lot of notes to myself and short letters to put into birthday cards, etc. It has helped. Dave H's friend has it right - slow down.
A couple of years ago I went back to school and had a composition class where hand written stories were required. My beautiful Catholic school handwriting skills had deteriorated to the point where I honestly couldn't remember how to shape some of the letters in cursive! I ended up having to print in all caps just to complete the assignments. The profeesor was appalled at the illegible crap he received for the first few assignments and allowed the use of typed work after the first few weeks.
The nuns I knew in grades 1 thru 8 could fix that for you.
Then again, one of them, the school principal, assisted some of my 4th grade classmates in making home-made black powder for show and tell one time.
Tough cookies, those nuns.
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