[HoosierDaddy]

So, before I took the GRE I had to copy a paragraph onto my sign-in sheet. I had to do so in cursive. I haven't written cursive, exclusively, since I was in middle school. Seriously... it is too damned loopy! I can't tell the difference between and e, l, and uncrossed t. Let alone the damned n, m, z, nonsense.

Are you a printer? Can you still write in cursive? Do you do what I do and just randomly combine the two into a morass of pathetic penmanship?

[HoosierDaddy]

I use an unholy combination that is nearly illegible to me, and pretty much illegible to all others.

[dktorode]

i got a terrible combo going...but print if i want to write pretty like.
And cursive if i want no one but myself to be able to read it.

[alt146]

I had to start using print in highschool after my teachers told me I was consistently losing 10-15% of my marks to the inelligibility of my handwriting. I dont even think I can write in cursive anymore, although I start to develop a terrible combination of both if I write in a hurry.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I write in nearly illegible cursive. I have forgotten how to print anything but nearly illegible capital letters, which is what I use when writing on the board at school. Sucks for the class, but they learn to adapt.

[Mezla PigDog]

I write mostly in cursive. Printing takes too long. There are some letters that I don't join up. Like 'g'. It gets too loopy. A quick look at my pad says I don't join 'l', 't', 'd' or 'p' either. I must have a thing for straight lines. I recently noticed that the way I write the number 9 has been bugging me for a while so I am making a concerted effort to change it and make it more straight. I don't know why. My writing is stupidly neat.

Something I have always wondered about is why my handwriting looks so much like my sisters and like neither of our parents. I am left handed, she is right. Is it a learned trait or something more imprinted? These things keep my mind occupied a little too much.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

I prefer cursive myself. But I don't do the swoopy-loopy signature style writing. In fact, my writing has been described as "short and stiff".

"awaits sexual joke"

[cerveza_fiesta]

definitely a mix of whatever my hand can produce. I've changed it so many times back and forth to keep me awake in class that now, my hand doesn't know which one to do.

I've only ever hear it described as "tidy", though I don't really agree. I have a hard time reading it, but I keep surprisingly consistent on slant and size of the letters.

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 25 June 2009 - 12:41 PM

[teholbeddict]

For every day use, I've got a combo going, however it's not illegible like many of the other people who have chosen combo. I actually get compliments on my handwriting quite often.

When writing up prescriptions and charts at work though I use cursive, and that is illegible to most people. But hey I'm a doctor, our handwriting is supposed to be terrible!

[Darkwatch]

A most unholy mix of the thing.
Sometimes nice lettres escape my hand.
Otherwise my handwriting looks bad, and when I try and make it look good just ends up looking like it was written by a kid.

[Illuyankas]

Usually cursive. My handwriting can be abysmal - readable, just incredibly ugly looking. Also people used to mistake my 4's for 9's and vice versa, so I changed the 4's diagonal line to a vertical, and now people just think my 9's are 4's. Also this isn't connected but I have issues with apostrophe abuse.

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 25 June 2009 - 01:38 PM

[Zanth13]

sadly my handwriting has not changed since the 2nd grade.... dead serious...

i am to lazy to try and fix it now... maybe one day...

[Tapper]

A mix of print and cursive, not very illegible, but very, very small. I write mostly print, but my capitals are flourished cursive. I generally do not connect b, f,g, i, j, l, p, q, r, s, v, w, x, y.
The other 12 letters I connect if I feel like it or if in a hurry, although the vowels are usually connected to whatever follows them.
It mostly looks spidery, as the tip of the pen barely scratches the paper... always have a problem with carbon copied triple forms I have to sign: the two lower layers never seem to catch even a dent.

[Obdigore]

I have a terrible combination of both.

I had someone at work trying to read my notepad and they commented in all seriousness 'I didn't know you could write in Mandarin'... Oh YES!

[Tarcanus]

It depends on how fast I write, actually. I normally print, but if I'm trying to print quickly, the letters start connecting to each other.

[Terez]

You have to write in cursive for the GRE? Really?

I need to take the GRE...

Anyway, mine is definitely a strange combination.

[Slum]

Oh, you're not graded on the cursive. It's just there to provide a handwriting sample in case they think you had a friend take it for you or whatnot. I'm pretty sure.

[Terez]

Then why on earth would they ask you to write in a handwriting you don't usually use?

[Slum]

I'm not sure... harder to forge, perhaps. More idiosyncrasies in cursive, I imagine. Whatever mishmash you put down there is fine, as long as it's not straight print.

[Cougar]

I write in a very flamboyantly loopy cusive. If I'm writing a note for someone I might do it in block caps but my cursive is fairly legible unless I get really excited about an idea. Say like if I doing some research and I suddenly get an idea then it goes really illegible as I try to hand-vomit the entire idea on to my notes before the little fucker escapes into the ether.