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[kokopellinelli]

I've heard that the smarter you are, the messier and more incomprehensible your handwriting is.

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I must be a friggin' GENIUS.

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[petter-haggholm.livejournal.com]

I tend to comments like "Can you even read that yourself?" (the answer is "Er, sometimes"), "That can't possibly be a lowercase 'm', that's clearly a hyphen", and "I can't read this essay; you'll just have to rewrite it".

[kokopellinelli]

Your lowercase 'm's look like hyphens, too? Actually, I guess mine look more like tildes that are low to the ground.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

My v's and r's look very similar when I write in a hurry. And my ms and ns sort of trail off into nothingness.

[kokopellinelli]

The sad thing is, I'm not even necessarily talking about when I'm writing in a hurry. I'll just scrawl something, not slowly, but not too quickly, and it STILL looks like I'm a monkey writing with my left hand.

[luke2.livejournal.com]

LOL! Then I must be too Nelli. ;o)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I'll subscribe to this theory, because it makes me sound smarter than I actually am. My handwriting is atrocious. I write in block caps because it's the only way even I understand what I wrote.

True story: In our office, we occasionally have to produce hand-written invitations for events. So a bunch of us would get together and start writing these things out, with the understanding that they had to look nice. I did that once. They never asked me to do it again. Ever.

True Story #2: Further to that... we were in Geneva for a conference, and unfortunately invitations had to be written, and we were only three people, so I had to participate. I wrote carefully. Methodically. Slowly. With substantial effort, my invitation cards came out quite nicely. My more gifted coworker wrote 73 invitations in the time it took me to write 9. That's right. I moved at 1/8th the speed of a normal person.

[kokopellinelli]

*laughs*

Okay, I'm not quite that bad. Maybe you can convince people it's because you're wise. *scoff*

*hug of sympathy*

Oh, yeah. Hello!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I hope it's because I'm wise. Otherwise my life is doomed to illegible obscurity. Thank heavens for the existence of Times New Roman 12 pt font and the keyboards that generate its wondrously legible clarity.

Ah, typing. My one and only salvation. ;-)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Me too! The two of us together could rule the world!!

[kokopellinelli]

Woohoo! I'll bring the blueprints if you'll buy the beer!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Hard cider ok? I'm not a big beer fan...

[kokopellinelli]

Yeah. I don't like beer either, but it seems to be what the kids are drinking nowadays.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

That's because you're in Wisconsin! Drinking beer is pretty much a requirement there.

[butterfairy.livejournal.com]

[amoryl.livejournal.com]

my handwriting is so horrible i've been accused of writing in norse runes. i've been told that i should become a doctor based on my handwriting, then they immediately change their mind saying i'll kill the first person i write a perscription for.

as for my writing style i tend now to print, but when i'm writing fast i tend to switch between cursive and print, often within the same word.

i've always had horrid handwriting much to my teachers dismay. so one day i tried really hard durring my handwriting lesson, i spent like twice as much time to make sure every letter came out perfect. i was so proud when i turned my paper in, at least untill the teacher looked at it and accused me of cheating. she then stood over my shoulder while i rewrote the lesson (which had to come out as good, and so took just as long as the first one did) when i recreated the lesson all she said was "oh, i guess you didn't cheat on it after all" and walked back to her desk. and i've never made even the slightest attempt to write neat again.

[kokopellinelli]

Yeeeesh, that teacher story is horrible.

Don't worry, though, I switch between printing and cursive as well. Mrs. Neslund would be so disappointed in me.