Conversation started Sep 12, 2023 at 20:48.
verbose
verbose
Sep 12, 2023 20:48
Y'know it's just weird to me how few people write in cursive any more. I had to stop putting comments in cursive on student papers (back when submissions were still hard copy) because some couldn't read it. But it takes s o l o n g to write each letter individually.
Mithical
Mithical
It's rare for me to write anything by hand at all... I do when studying sometimes, because it's supposed to help you remember things, but I haven't noticed any significant advantages in information retention when writing things by hand vs. typing them.
I'm just waiting for the day I accidentally re-ask a Lit.SE question I've already asked because I didn't remember writing it.
verbose
verbose
I still make grocery lists and to-do lists by hand. I take notes by hand during meetings unless I need to distribute the notes later. I find that the clacking of keys on the keyboard can be a distraction in the latter case though.
Of course I have reasonably nice handwriting so I like to keep in practice.
Bookworm
Bookworm
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Q: What's the significance of the scene where Christine loses Erik's gold ring?

MithicalIn Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, the ring that Erik had given Christine goes missing: Suddenly Christine changed color. A mortal pallor overspread her features. "Oh heavens!" she cried. "Erik! Erik! Have pity on me!" "Hold your tongue!" said Raoul. "You told me he could hear you!" Bu...

french-language gaston-leroux the-phantom-of-the-opera
Mithical
Mithical
I don't (: My hands have never been very steady in the first place, and computers were ubiquitous enough when I was little that handwriting was never a priority.
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Mithical Jack B Nimble once did that on SFF.
DLosc
DLosc
Sep 12, 2023 21:01
@verbose I learned a variant form of cursive that kept the letter-forms a lot closer to their printed versions, just with lines connecting them. My writing now tends to be a cross between that and scribbled printed letters.
verbose
verbose
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@DLosc oh interesting. Care to share a sample? Pics or it didn't happen, as the kids say
@Mithical what prompted that? The VtC?
Mithical
Mithical
There was a VTC?
I've just asked several hundred questions and I don't remember all of them super well, so it's plausible that I could come across something again and re-ask it.
@verbose I think the unsteadiness of my hand is apparent here: i.sstatic.net/KHyNl.jpg
Very much not neat handwriting :P
DLosc
DLosc
@verbose I can try, but my flip phone doesn't have a very good camera :)
Mithical
Mithical
@DLosc Probably has a better camera than a landline...
DLosc
DLosc
True that
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Several elements of how I write were borrowed from various sources, now that I think of it. In particular, I added the loops on g and f (and y) because I liked a professor's handwriting in college.
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
Sep 12, 2023 21:27
I think @DLosc has the best handwriting among the three just posted :-)
(sorry verbose)
Mithical
Mithical
@Randal'Thor It's a good thing I rely on my keyboard more than the pen.
I'm out of drafted questions, though.
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
You'll have to rely on volunteer questions then.
ba dum tish
Mithical
Mithical
I asked my latest question by pulling a book off of the shelf without looking and then opening it up to a random page. I think that counts as volunteer.
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
Ha!
I guess I should join in the handwriting-sharing craze: i.sstatic.net/8BSzB.jpg
(didn't know what to write so I just described the people I saw)
Mithical
Mithical
Positively legible :)
DLosc
DLosc
Sep 12, 2023 21:58
https://i.sstatic.net/6x4EA.jpg
1. How I was taught cursive
2. How I write cursive now
3. How I write non-cursive now
verbose
verbose
Sep 12, 2023 22:37
@Randal'Thor I think mine's neater, his more legible
DLosc
DLosc
I agree
My writing has gotten noticeably scribblier over the past decade or two.
verbose
verbose
Mine has gotten less angular and more rounded. The pic was the one I happened to have on my phone. I took a pic recently coz I needed to buy a string (and didn't want to carry around the notebook), but the handwriting itself is from about 15 years ago.
DLosc
DLosc
Oh, interesting
verbose
verbose
Sep 12, 2023 22:54
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with a fountain pen, which I affect on occasion.
 
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