Can you write in cursive?
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@futurebird It’s not much different than how you learned to write upside down. I taught myself to write backwards with my left hand back in high school. But I can only do it in cursive!
@superflippy @futurebird Yeah... ok... now to the real thing: can you write with both hands independently at the same time?
I certainly cannot. 
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Can you write in cursive?
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird Mind blown! In the "yes, every day" category.
Wasn't aware that some people don't write in cursive, that it is optional.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird while taking notes it kinda naturally blends into halfway to cursive because it’s easier just to keep the pen moving than stopping and starting all the time
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They only see it on old documents and in movies for magic spells.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird @penpencilbrush Strangely I’d only write in cursive when I’d write numbers on a cheque. And I haven’t written a cheque in years.
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Can you write in cursive?
I journal every night, in cursive. Supposedly it helps with memory retention, which I struggle with. But I often substitute a printed letter or 2, because imo some cursive letters just look dumb (mostly the capitalized ones, if they are too different from the printed version).
One time a lady complimented my handwriting, and I’ll never forget how surprised and pleased that made me feel. I think it’s barely legible.
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@Virginicus @futurebird Oh I did have one teacher try very very hard to force me to write right-handed. She absolutely hated me with a passion. I guess somehow I didn't get at the time what a terrible person she was. When she first did it everyone else was watching a movie and I was forced to do handwriting lessons. But she didn't stand there over me, so I pretty much just watched the movie across the divider while pretending to do the lessons.
It's very weird to me that people actually treated being left-handed as actually evil.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird The only time I don't is if I'm writing my email address or if I legally have to for something. Even then I occasionally make some characters slightly cursive because I struggle with print.
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@futurebird when I was about 8 or 9 the Lord of the Rings movies had just come out and I remember seeing an ad with the Elvish writing and I came to the conclusion that "that's how sorcerers write so I need to write like that because one day I'm gonna be a sorcerer!". So I did
At school we had to learn cursive to get a pen licence. It took me twice as long to get mine than anyone else and my teacher was horrible about it. But to this day I still write like a sorcerer and I use pen and paper more than anything else for my writing. Even more than 2 decades later I still love writing like a sorcerer and there's nothing as magical as pen and paper to me
@captainvellalives @futurebird
Ah, but did you ever learn to write in Elvish?
When i write for my diary while at work, i write in Elvish letters so no one else can read anything.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird awkward is pretty tame for how I feel about it.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird Another lefty chiming in here. When I took the GREs, I had to copy a small paragraph that stated I wouldn’t cheat, and it HAD to be in cursive.
It took me about five minutes of mental and physical strain to finish.
I do print at a normalish pace, and thankfully I was a stubborn little fuck as a kid, so I think if someone tried to make me write righthanded I’d ask why until they wanted to puke while still writing lefty.
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@futurebird Another lefty chiming in here. When I took the GREs, I had to copy a small paragraph that stated I wouldn’t cheat, and it HAD to be in cursive.
It took me about five minutes of mental and physical strain to finish.
I do print at a normalish pace, and thankfully I was a stubborn little fuck as a kid, so I think if someone tried to make me write righthanded I’d ask why until they wanted to puke while still writing lefty.
@futurebird And of course tell my parents about this dumb person who didn’t know that being a lefty was COOL. It made me unique. Also gave me an advantage in baseball when at bat…not so much when looking for catcher’s mitts.
My handwriting is definitely messy, but I don’t feel ashamed of it. There are some quirks to it that make it especially inscrutable to others, but I LIKE those, because they’re unique and they’re mine. That’s MY stamp there, and I like it.
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As a tutor and teaching I've learned to write upside down (eg I can write so you can read it when I'm sitting face to face with you. )
I'm a little flattered by how much it freaks people out. But it's not hard. Just imagine your wrist is extra flexible and you are writing right side up.
I can't do mirror writing and that makes me sad... but someday I'll learn.
And then, boustrophedon!
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@superflippy @futurebird I can write and read braille upside down which is necessary for a braille teacher. Also when you write braille with a slate and stylus you are writing it backward because you are literally punching every hole out from behind. I can sign my name in cursive, but if I'm going to write print letters, they are not in cursive and I have to remember how the lines go and often I write them backwards or upside down because I forget which way they point. Also my handwriting looks like that of a particularly hyper six-year-old. I can read raised print such as the numbers on a credit card with my fingertips but writing is harder because I don't do it but once every few years.
@pawpower @futurebird I never thought of braille being backwards when you write with a stylus, but now that you describe it it makes perfect sense. Wild!
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird I can write in cursive, and when I make notes for myself what comes out is a blend of block and cursive. For readability for others I write block.
Never thought about it, but I've been told my block writing is nice.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird yes but not that you could read it
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird Other: I don't give a f. If I have to handwrite, it's most probably a note to myself. It's also probably a bunch of squiggly lines only I know how to read. Like I literally replace certain parts of certain words with a squiggly line because in context, the shape will be enough for me to know what it means.
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@futurebird My handwriting has always been awful.
Was very jealous when my cousins went to live in france and had their cursive corrected. There were school classes for international students.@BenCotterill Lucky them! I'm French and my cursive is just awful. My fingers tend to live their own life, which doesn't help. The way I use my keyboard is an insult to keyboard designers.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
My handwriting looks pretty much exactly like comic sans...to the point where my folks thought I'd gotten an personalized font when it first came out.
I like it - a lot of people angrily don't
