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  • My penmanship is very poor.  I have to print everything otherwise I can't decipher my own handwriting.  

  • Thanks for this post. I agree with the statement that the means of writing have an influence on your writing style. With that said I have to admit that my handwriting is difficult to decipher. 

  • Yes, this has definitely faded. The decline in my own writing style is even evident to me - I write worse than I did in high school.

  • Some people get paid big bucks for analyzing your penmanship. You can tell alot about a person by the way they dot their i's and cross their t's

  • I have a love affair with the handwritten letter and frequently write them. That said, I think this is part of the natural evolution of human communication. I don't understand Olde English particularly well because English has evolved over time. I don't read the US Constitution as easily as I might because spelling conventions and penmanship styles have evolved over time.

    While I will continue to write letters, I don't think I'm going to fret too much about these changes.

  • My penmanship was not great and got worse as I took notes durning college classes. Yes, I was in college prior to the computer. The new item was the electric typewriter lolol.

  • When I was in school, I used to get prize for my penmanship. But that went by the way side when I joined medical school, 'cause everything had to be written so fast.

    I still send hand written notes to dear friends, and love to receive them. Unfortunatley, it is a lost art.

    I collect fountain pens, because I always used them as a youth. Now when I write a check in a store, the clerk, even some one older, looks at me pens and says, "that's a cool pen" or, a young kid would say, " wow, what is it called?

    Sad, no?

  • @Fatcat723 - @stepaside_loser - @beowulf222 - @ElusiveWords -  believe it or not, the use of fountain pens has helped me to write better.  even if my writing is not the best, i now can write better than i used to because fountain pens encourage me to do so.

    @catstemplar2 - yes, i've heard of that.  though i have yet to meet one who can do just that.
    @ZSA_MD - yes, sad indeed.  i started collecting fountain pens since 2007 when i first experienced using one.  since then it's been an obsession and i use them on daily basis.  i have many pens (too many) and bottles of ink of various brands and colors.  though my penmanship is nothing in comparison to "true" penmanship, i can say that i now can write better thanks to the use of fountain pens.

     

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