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Some exaggeration.
My signature looks like the tangled ball of chaos in the necklace portion of your grandma's jewelry box.
My signature looks like the tangled ball of chaos in the necklace portion of your grandma's jewelry box.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
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Size 720 x 895px
File Size 292 kB
it's like "rosy the rascal" photo-shopped over this character/meme thing: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/TITTY_MONSTER
My signature looks like I'm murdering whatever I sign.
I grab the pen, lure it into a false sense of security, then FURIOUSLY STAB THE EVERLOVING SHIT OUT OF IT.
DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE DIE DIE.
Also it winds up looking like a fucking doctor wrote it.
AND THATS WHY IM BLUEBERRY FLAVORED.
ANY QUESTIONS?
*Explodes onto a motorcycle and rides off into the sunset*
I grab the pen, lure it into a false sense of security, then FURIOUSLY STAB THE EVERLOVING SHIT OUT OF IT.
DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE DIE DIE.
Also it winds up looking like a fucking doctor wrote it.
AND THATS WHY IM BLUEBERRY FLAVORED.
ANY QUESTIONS?
*Explodes onto a motorcycle and rides off into the sunset*
Wow, this is exactly how my elementary-school teachers put it, too. I was skeptical of their claims then and now. ;)
As you can imagine, I put pen to paper very little in adult life - everything's typed on the PC. This spring, I'm back in college full-time for a second degree, having finished the first about six years ago. On the first day of class I had entirely forgotten how to write fast to take notes! Took me a week or so to rebuild my writing skills with a mix of cursive and print. I'd say I average about 1/2 cursive and 1/2 print within each word. It's rare a word comes out solely in one or the other. If I looked more closely at it, I'd probably find certain letter pairs or triplets that are predictably cursive and the rest print.
As you can imagine, I put pen to paper very little in adult life - everything's typed on the PC. This spring, I'm back in college full-time for a second degree, having finished the first about six years ago. On the first day of class I had entirely forgotten how to write fast to take notes! Took me a week or so to rebuild my writing skills with a mix of cursive and print. I'd say I average about 1/2 cursive and 1/2 print within each word. It's rare a word comes out solely in one or the other. If I looked more closely at it, I'd probably find certain letter pairs or triplets that are predictably cursive and the rest print.
Actually, though, I pretty much never use cursive. My handwriting is pretty bad.
When I was little, I wrote beautifully. Very precise. Then everyone was always, "Write faster! You take too long! Hurry up! It's okay to sacrifice a little accuracy!" So I tried to write faster, and started writing terribly, and only slightly faster. So everyone was always, "Write better! I can't read this!" So I tried writing a little slower, but my handwriting didn't get any better.
...So yeah, I totally jumped on the "typing stuff on a computer" as soon as possible. Microsoft Works, for DOS. We didn't have things like "variable width fonts". Or even "fonts". We had Bold, Italics, Underline, and if we were feeling especially saucy, Strikethrough. And that's it. Uphill, snow, yadda yadda, etc. ^_~
When I was little, I wrote beautifully. Very precise. Then everyone was always, "Write faster! You take too long! Hurry up! It's okay to sacrifice a little accuracy!" So I tried to write faster, and started writing terribly, and only slightly faster. So everyone was always, "Write better! I can't read this!" So I tried writing a little slower, but my handwriting didn't get any better.
...So yeah, I totally jumped on the "typing stuff on a computer" as soon as possible. Microsoft Works, for DOS. We didn't have things like "variable width fonts". Or even "fonts". We had Bold, Italics, Underline, and if we were feeling especially saucy, Strikethrough. And that's it. Uphill, snow, yadda yadda, etc. ^_~
Yeah, it was totally bullshit. Through elementary school they pounded it into us, saying we'd need it for later in school because all our essays and such would have to be in cursive. Then I get to when I've got to do the essays, and you get points off for hand written. Suddenly everything had to be typed, and cursive was obsolete. I don't even remember how to write cursive anymore, beyond my signature.
I learned cursive in school all right (and I had one teacher in high school who insisted we write *everything* in cursive, ugh) but I was always bothered by some of the letterforms, and I developed my own.
Like capital A. I always hated that it looked like an oversize lowercase a, so I wrote it to actually look like a capital A (which I later found out is the proper way to write a cursive capital A in Russian, ha!)
Same with capital M and N. Big versions of small m and n? Skroo that!
And why make Q look like a 2 when it's perfectly easy to start at the bottom, complete the circle and make it look like a Q?
...Wait a minute, I think I just figured it out. The official forms of cursive A, M, N and Q all require starting with your pencil at the top, whereas my versions involve starting at the bottom. Now that I think about it, I do remember some kind of mindless, slavish devotion to starting at the top! Aha, I just solved a decades-old mystery!
So anyway bla bla bla I also hated lowercase r, s and z and fixed those too.
Like capital A. I always hated that it looked like an oversize lowercase a, so I wrote it to actually look like a capital A (which I later found out is the proper way to write a cursive capital A in Russian, ha!)
Same with capital M and N. Big versions of small m and n? Skroo that!
And why make Q look like a 2 when it's perfectly easy to start at the bottom, complete the circle and make it look like a Q?
...Wait a minute, I think I just figured it out. The official forms of cursive A, M, N and Q all require starting with your pencil at the top, whereas my versions involve starting at the bottom. Now that I think about it, I do remember some kind of mindless, slavish devotion to starting at the top! Aha, I just solved a decades-old mystery!
So anyway bla bla bla I also hated lowercase r, s and z and fixed those too.
Hated that we were forced to do cursive. Haven't had much use for it except for signing job, financial and medical applications. It's either print or type on a computer.
My print is just meh and my cursive is like how the stereotypical doctor signs prescriptions, very tight and nearly illegible ^^;;.
My print is just meh and my cursive is like how the stereotypical doctor signs prescriptions, very tight and nearly illegible ^^;;.
Aww, but I like cursive writing! :( It was very useful for notes in university before I got my laptop, as I can write it a heck of a lot faster than I can print. It is admittedly rather illegible to anyone but me, so if I'm writing for someone else I tend to print, but otherwise I always default to cursive.
I only end up using cursive when I'm trying to write something out real fast that I won't need for very long. Which is all cursive was meant for, was to help you write things faster, by creating a more fluid and continuous motion. Or at least I THINK that's what it's meant for, since that's what it does.
Though I've forgotten how to write some of the letters correctly now, since I hardly ever use it.
Though I've forgotten how to write some of the letters correctly now, since I hardly ever use it.
Heheh, flashback from my own grade school days.
In 5th grade, we were given a similar speech on how important cursive is and how it's often used. I did my best to write at my best in it, forgoing print in exchange for it.
In 6th grade, we were told that how you wrote didn't matter as much as what you wrote; print was all right as well. Due to how much I learned it, though, I could only write in cursive.
So, to this day, my cursive is very good and my print is slow yet adequate.
Ah, the memories.
^_^
Anyway, thanks for the swell share.
In 5th grade, we were given a similar speech on how important cursive is and how it's often used. I did my best to write at my best in it, forgoing print in exchange for it.
In 6th grade, we were told that how you wrote didn't matter as much as what you wrote; print was all right as well. Due to how much I learned it, though, I could only write in cursive.
So, to this day, my cursive is very good and my print is slow yet adequate.
Ah, the memories.
^_^
Anyway, thanks for the swell share.
I actually had to go through TUTORING to improve my cursive handwriting so it would be legible. It has actually stuck with me. When I try to write by hand, I may start off printing, but if I don't think about it, I slip into a crude cursive. Of course since now most of my writing is done on computer. It's kind of odd to think of all those hours learning to write properly only to have to learn how to type everything up anyways.
Your ability to tap into the collective experience of tiny person life is worth of respective.
Elementary School: LEARN CURSIVE! Adults NEVER print! EVERYTHING IS IN CURSIVE WE SWEAR
First Day of Middle School: For the love of god don't write anything in cursive or we'll kill you.
Elementary School: LEARN CURSIVE! Adults NEVER print! EVERYTHING IS IN CURSIVE WE SWEAR
First Day of Middle School: For the love of god don't write anything in cursive or we'll kill you.
My first failing grade in school was penmanship. And it's never improved since. I suspect that's because I may be one of those sorts who's naturally left-handed, but who has been trained right-handed for nearly half a century, now.
Thank heavens I can touch type. :)
Thank heavens I can touch type. :)
I encounter people every day who can't read cursive. Not that it's illegible, no, they simply have no idea what it is or how it is done. I guess they just didn't teach that in California schools? It seems so odd to me since I had to do these worksheets in class, and now it's second nature. Then again, it's rare that I ever meet an adult who writes proper cursive, without mixing in a bunch of print characters at random.
I remember this speech.
I also remember that, a month in to the lessons, the teacher was looking in the instruction book and realized she'd been teaching us all wrong.
The only time I have ever used cursive in my life was on the LSAC, which demanded you write a statement in cursive in a tiny box. It took me 15 minutes to write 150 words.
I also remember that, a month in to the lessons, the teacher was looking in the instruction book and realized she'd been teaching us all wrong.
The only time I have ever used cursive in my life was on the LSAC, which demanded you write a statement in cursive in a tiny box. It took me 15 minutes to write 150 words.
oh god yeah, this motherfucker. I was off to a bad start with cursive right off the bat, because I found it awkward to use and my school teacher gave me hell since everyone in the class was supposed to have switched over from print text to cursive. So I spent the next six years writing all my essays and the like in my strangled chickenscratch handwriting, then as soon as I got out of highschool I was all "I'm... I'm free!" and never used the damn thing again. Once in a while I'll see if I can still do it, but really and truly I fucking hate to use it or have to read anyone else's
LOL,I actually find this funny, seeing as part of the last group of youngins that had to learn and use cursive. My last few years of high school, it had actually become obsolete: teachers would only accept computer typed papers. Nowadays, the only use for cursive is signing checks and official documents.
Mannn, it could be worse. Spencerian script is liek CURSIVE ON (very fancy) STEROIDS.
I have been told that my "Style" of Script is unique...
Damn straight, most words are one solid line, my tails either loop around or back towards the left side of the page. Hard to describe, but not worth submitting
I never learnt cursive, but if I did I'd probably still use it
Damn straight, most words are one solid line, my tails either loop around or back towards the left side of the page. Hard to describe, but not worth submitting
I never learnt cursive, but if I did I'd probably still use it
chaosie
I was actually taught cursive before print, because my father wanted me to learn it. So now, I have a bad habit of slipping into cursive, while in the middle of writing print, sometimes, I don't even realize it and will write a paragraph or more in cursive with a little bit of print at the beginning.
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