/lit/ - Literature

your handwriting is pretty bad op

>>6037903
Yours isn't to my taste, but it's rather neat, so kudos for that.

heres mine

>>6037956
Simply ebin :^)

tfw still waiting for my Pilot G2's to arrive.

>>6037986
lel

>>6037986
8/8 mate, would read again

>>6037986
noice

Notes from my frist lecture in "aestethics in philosophy" this semester. Its in Norwegian.

>>6038041
Now here's a man's handwriting. Others in this thread are shit and girly

>>6038041

I have never seen an american write cursive.
pls no bully, this is an old entry

>>6037956
Seems legit

>>6038298
Lol
Nice word art

>>6038460
best so far

Not really legible, but awfully dramatic

I have had the worst handwriting my whole life. How do I get good?

>>6038460
ayyyy, american here

I always get complimented on my handwriting. This is sample from a notebook that happened to be near me.

You guys have some fancy pants handwriting.

>>6038824
Good handwriting.

>>6038831
>the capital D in desarrollo
Really clever letter form, anon

Any lefties here?

I want to try and find something that I can write in, but holy shit, it all seems like a giant scam.

Is it just me or all the americans have the same handwriting?

>>6038865
I'm sinister. I use fountain pens, some of the inks dry really fast so they don't smudge. Here's my shitty handwriting >>6038460

>>6038865
Yes. Most of us are marxists, anon.

>>6038870

Kinda?

It's pretty easy to see why though.

We are taught for the first five years (or so) in grade school that we absolutely must know how to write in cursive. So basically every teacher will dedicate a good deal of their lesson plan making sure you can actually write in cursive.

Then we stop because practically no Middle School enforces cursive after that point. Now what's unfortunate about this is rather than keep enforcing cursive, or scrapping cursive altogether and just teaching block writing we slowly revert to a mish-mash between the two.

That's why you'll see loops and flourishes in some letters, and then just straight or curved lines with others. I've found that the letter 'd' is one of the most common markers that demonstrate what I'm talking about.

>>6038865
>tfw typed a response but 4chan is being shit atm
Anyway, use fountain pens.

>>6038885
Why would you write in block when you're taught how to write in cursive?

>>6037885
should i feel bad?

>>6038885
I get what you're saying. I was one of those students who never really took to cursive very well and so my handwriting remains (to my disgust) having a very blocky, childish style. The only plus side is that it is highly legible to others; the "mulatto" style that most other people my age possess is often unreadable by people other than themselves

>>6038890

Because you don't keep up the habit.

I can't express this any better than literally just pointing at your original comment and my first response.

We learn how to write cursive, we don't have to keep writing cursive, so we stop and this leads right back to your first question and my first response... and so on.

>>6038876
>>6038877
>>6038890

I meant to write on, rather.

Like what is your preferred medium? Because binders are the work of Satan.

>>6038895
Forgot pic

>tfw dysgraphia

>>6038859

Thank you. I think I copied it from some computer font.

>>6038912
That's not so bad.

>>6038910
I use small notebooks, the ones that look like books with sewn binding.

>>6038904
What is behind deciding to write in block though? I think children try to copy the kind of letter they see the most, and block is used in books and internet. Cursive also takes more time I think and children don't want to waste any doing nice words nobody else will read.

>>6038894

yes

>>6038921

We are taught block first, and then cursive.

A lot of Americans go to Preschool, and there they will usually start learning the motions at least which is in block. Then Kindergarten and 1st will usually still work on block.

>>6038938
Oh, that kinda sucks. I guess the stuff I was thinking about only fits my country since we're only taught how to write in cursive here.

Do you think it would be possible to teach oneself cursive?

I know some of /lit/ will like my story, probably less so my handwriting.

>>6038973
>hasn't passed 3rd grade

Meh, it could be worse. Only when I'm drunk

I actually analyzed a funny haiku posted here... I often write down stuff you people post that I particularly like.
>d-don't judge

>>6038973
Well, yeah. Will take a while and you will often find yourself going back to how you normally write, but it's possible.

>>6038977
Why can't you stick to the lines? It's a pain to look at.

>>6038921
I find that cursive takes less time if only because you don't need to lift your pen so often, all letters are connected.

I don't think it's particularly pretty either, cursive is the norm in my country and everyone has shit handwriting.

>>6038041
Beautiful. Just... Beautiful.

>>6039022
>Anon writes the /lit/ haiku I wrote in his notebook
What kind of god are you?

>>6039034
It was very good (all things considered) and you should feel good.

I try to make my waste of time on 4chan less wasteful. Appreciating the stuff posted is a good way to do so, in my opinion.

>>6039106
Right back atcha' and I think you make a good point. I'm trying to get myself into the habit of keeping a commonplace book for the things that I read; I should incorporate the time I spend on 4chan into that

>>6039022

I should probably work on sticking inside the lines. Thanks.

>>6037986
>>6037986
>tfw still waiting for my Pilot G2's to arrive.

One day people will understand serif.

>>6037986

>>6038848
kek

>>6039638
>Pilot G2
Uniball Vision Elite is a lot better to me having tried both. Do you need a click pen?

Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume sur son île intérieure, à côté de l'alcôve ovoïde, où les bûches se consument dans l'âtre, ce qui lui permet de penser à la cænogénèse de l'être dont il est question dans la cause ambiguë entendue à Moÿ, dans un capharnaüm qui, pense-t-il, diminue çà et là la qualité de son œuvre.


Dès Noël où un zéphyr haï me vêt de glaçons würmiens je dîne d’exquis rôtis de bœuf au kir à l’aÿ d’âge mûr & cætera ! (contient les 42 caractères de la langue française) (Gilles Esposito-Farèse)

Learning disabilities ahoy!

>>6037986
Did someone say "Best Pen" because I heard someone say "Best Pen".

>>6039712

This is the exact handwriting that comes to my mind when I think about French handwriting. It's very nice.

>>6040570
mine is really average - especially the top one as my hands have not written in months and my fountain pen was dry- however, in general the girls' handwriting is far better, at least for the ones who go beyond the sans-serif and putting hearts over the 'i'.

>mfw Murricans print letters instead of actually handwriting

question to the thread writ large:

why do 90% of girls all have the same handwriting? you know, that bubbly, very readable but bland style they all have.

I think it has a great deal to do with being "basic", but I couldn't exactly tell you why

the more interesting girls i've known have had unique handwriting, but they were one in every ten

>>6040594
I think they practice a little because their parents tell them to have a good handwriting. Have you never heard that "girls are tidier and have a better handwriting than boys"? I think that's bullshit

I heard that the Germans are less constrained by their teachers which explains why they adopt a free style. Their cahiers have no lines or at least lines which are not standardized and they can freely do whatever they want. Ours are more normative.

>>6040606
This was a work 70 years ago by a ten-year old, with already the grid that we use today.

This is from my dream journal, but my writing is not much better normally.

>>6038890
Because cursive is inefficient and often less legible. Sure, it gives you snob points to write fully cursive, however the most efficient way to write will always be to mix both styles wherever possible. Not only does this give you the efficiency of linked characters wherever suitable, it also adds extra legibility and speed wherever linking is unsuitable or inefficient.
Go ahead and write cursive, though. You'll feel great about doing so.

>>6038894
Definitely.

>tfw my handwriting looks like a child's
>tfw I don't even hold my pen the normal way
>tfw it's really really fucking bad
>tfw if I posted it you would all laugh at me and say mean things.
You fucking normies with your normie handwriting.

>>6038824
>american here

Really? I am glad to see that you are learning portuguese :) It is a very sweet and sonorous language.

chicken scratch coming through

>>6040781
>I'm literally afraid of 4chan

Kill yourself you worthless autistic fuck

American here, relatively notorious for his godawful handwriting.
Don't even ask about my longhand

I loathe mine.

Don't worry, I usually write on ruled sheets of paper, otherwise I just can't keep my lines straight

This thread makes me wish I'd kept some of my essays from high school.
I had a teacher tell me that my handwriting was so bad I should be in "special ed" classes for it.

>>6040891
I had a German teacher once who failed me on every single exam and essay. I thought I was just awful at the language, untill she told me (at the end of the year and after months of extra tutoring) that she couldn't read my handwriting.

Needless to say I was furious.

>>6040900
She was right though. Her job is to teach, not decipher some unknown language known to man.

>>6040818
no

>>6040900
Damn, that is pretty shitty. I get that she shouldn't have to decipher your handwriting but she should have told you that's why you were failing.
Mine was my French teacher, although I was actually fucking terrible at French because I was a lazy shit back then.

Funny enough, my Russian professor in college never one complained about my handwriting.

>>6037885
Alas, another spider dies after its struggle in the ink well.

I was taking notes at the uni in pic related
>>6038460
>>6038831
>>6038824
the best

>>6040956
>all those useless lines
>ugly handwriting
Shit/10

I've always had terribly shaky handwriting and an improvised letter form; I had neither picked up proper form in school nor had I practiced steadying my fucking parkinson-hands until way too late thereafter. End result: shit.

The image is my normal handwriting. I feel like it's excessively malleable and floaty, while retaining a hint of feces at every turn. I've tried amending it by owning an improvisational and strokey style in order to cover it up instead of wasting time on genuine improvement. Whenever I'm in the mood I tend to caricature my own style to make it extremely sweeping and accentuated, however it turns unreadable at that point, though (I admit) mindbendingly sexy. But there are some pretty advanced styles in this thread with which I cannot compete...
Be honest, /lit/, how's my pen?

>>6040977
>l2write

>>6040940
Exactly, she should've told me this after failing me once or twice.

Joke is on her though, moving to Germany next week

>>6040877
If you'd stick to the lines more tightly, and perhaps align your verticals, your handwriting wouldn't look too terrible.

>>6041166
>>6040977
same

>>6038894
Yes

Boom, how this?

How do you guys write so neatly and with such flair and form with normal pens? I don't want to bring a fountain pen to school everyday but whenever I use a normal pen it's complete chicken scratch.

>>6041223
Good penmanship is enhanced by a good pen but it does not make it good.

>>6041219
Clean, legible, symmetric, a bit dull
...but I like it!

>>6041235
So what's all the talk about pilot G2, it looks like a regular disposable pen. Will it really improve my writing that much?

>>6040878
Écrire plus gros est ce sera bon.

>>6041223
>How do you guys write so neatly and with such flair and form with normal pens?
good sitting station, good pen (fluidity and size), knowing in advance what you must write

>>6041454
Way too tight. Makes it difficult to read.

>>6041463
For you.

>>6041454
form follows function

>>6041239

>>6041463
Read more cursive.

some notes for the exam that i just had today

Writing for personal stuff.

Here's mine. It's shite.

>>6040606
This is what we learn in Germany

I was doing someone's homework on /sci/

This picture is like five years old but it hasn't changed that much in the meantime.

>>6041545
dunno why he said dull, I think it's great, it has clarity, and it's not just blocky print but instead has a flow to it

Left is my print writing, done usually for others when people need my notes too.
Right is a bit more common for me, a mix of my cursive with print, because it's easy to do, easy on the hand and flows well with almost all kinds of pens.
I love cursive but it doesn't mix well with physics/math so I tend to leave it for personal notes on the margins, but I can't find an example where my name isn't on it.

>>6041851
misread that as you saying your handwriting is of a five year old's

close enough

>>6041998
what's with the spanish thrown in there lol. i don't see how you have to use a different handwriting so others can read as your normal one is quite legible

my script is somehow both sloppy and tedious
>>6038831
best in thread
>>6038894
runner up

>>6041251
I love them, they're so smooth. I'm a lefty as well and they don't smudge. Most important things for me is how smooth the pen is. I feel like iceskating when writing with them.

>>6041454

Your f is way too similar to a ſ.

>>6044140
>ſ
What's that?

>>6044164

The medial/long ſ, as opposed to the terminal/short s.

>>6044210
Yeah, nobody uses that anymore, and they don't have a loop at the bottom.

>>6044232

>>6044268
Left is how we were taught to write F.

>>6044268
for the f, I was taught the right one, but do the left one.

>>6044268
I think the "long s" looks more like a quickly written f by someone who already has it's own style, and it's clearly recognizable.
Only problem would be other words in his paragraph, where I have no idea what two words are.

>>6044280
me too