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Old 07-26-2007, 02:45 PM

What kind of discussion can you possibly have about handwriting? Well, lots of kinds.

But Flink just felt like talking about it because customers at the newspaper she works for keep commenting on how oddly she writes some letters, especially her Es since she starts from the inside and goes to the little part at the bottom.

Though, Flink has a very good reason for writing like she does. In her class, kindergarten, when they were learning to write Flink was the only left handed child, and the teacher was right handed, so Flink had to try her best to mimick the teacher's movements or simply how the letter looked to her. The former, mimicking the teacher, resulted in a lot of Flink's letters being backwards and a few others being completely different than they should be. Usually it was her Fs and Gs that were backwards.

While, working with how she thought you got the letter means she now writes letters a lot differently in style than other people do and they find it hard to read, or just sit and marvel at Flink's movements while she's writing stuff by hand.

As a result, Flink's handwriting became very hard to read for most people and she constantly had teachers either taking off points because they couldn't read it, or just asking her to come up and verify what something said.

It wasn't until around the third grade that Flink met someone else who was left-handed. Flink was thrilled to see that someone wrote with the same hand as her, and even more thrilled to find someone who could read her handwriting. Adding to that joy was the fact that they had similar writing, so they did eachother's homework. Flink did the English and history, while her friend did the math and science part.

Discussion:
1. What is all of this nonsense leading up to? Flink wants to know what hand everyone writes with.

2. Are there any letters or numbers that you write oddly to everyone else, and they even comment on it?

3. Is the writing with your other hand legible? Like Flink CAN write with her right hand, and you can read it. It just looks like a small child who is just learning to write had written it. XD

4. What are your thoughts on the beliefs about people who write with a certain hand? Such as people who are left handed are more artistic, creative in general, but more prone to day-dreams? And that people who are right handed are more logical and down-to-earth?

5. What about your thoughts on the belief, back in the old days by many cultures, that being left handed was not a good thing? Flink has a friend who is Chinese, she's about 40, who was threatened by her mother because she was left handed. She was even chased with a knife because it's taboo in her culture, which means now her friend writes with her right and.

6. Do you believe people should force their children to write with one hand or the other? Flink's mother fought with her all the time when she was little. She wanted Flink to eat with her right hand, but Flink kept moving her spoon to the other one?

7. Add things about which hand you write with in your family. Such as, in Flink's on her dad's side ALL of the girls are left handed and all of the males are right handed.


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Old 07-26-2007, 03:06 PM

1: I'm right-handed
2: I dont think so, I dont recall ever having anyone comment about my letter or number writing
3: Can't really write with my left hand (especially not at the moment lol), I'm definately not ambi-dextrous
4: It's a crock heh
5: Again a crock, the same sort of superstitiously small minded crap that meant that at one point menstruating women werent allowed to do certain things o_O
6: Children should write with whatever hand they feel comfortable with, they are the ones that are performing whatever hand-task it is after all
7: My step-father is a leftie, my mother and father, and sister are right-handed

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:10 PM

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Yay left handedness.

People always say my z's look like 3's. Other than that, my handwriting isn't very unusual. And then there are people who are like. '=o Whoa, you're left handed!?'
And I just blink at them and say yes. It's not that odd. >.>

My right handed print is horrid and barely legible.

I'm creative and such, so I suppose a bit of that rumor that left handed people are more imaginative is true. It makes sense anyway.

And those beliefs that being left handed is bad upset me. T.T There's nothing wrong with usss. My parents never cared that I was left handed, thankfully.

My parents are right handed. I'm special. ^^

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:13 PM

2. Are there any letters or numbers that you write oddly to everyone else, and they even comment on it?
Not that I know of... Though I have commented on it to other people. I notice that left-handers tend to start from the bottom of letters where I'm from (like with a 9).

3. Is the writing with your other hand legible?
Not in the least! My left hand is virtually useless except for typing.

4. What are your thoughts on the beliefs about people who write with a certain hand? Such as people who are left handed are more artistic, creative in general, but more prone to day-dreams? And that people who are right handed are more logical and down-to-earth?
Actually, there is a little bit of a basis to that. It has to do with the brain and one side being artistic and creative while the other is logical and such. Right side of the brain controls the left hand (if I am remembering this correctly) and left side of the brain controls the right hand (again, I may be remembering stuff wrong here).

5. What about your thoughts on the belief, back in the old days by many cultures, that being left handed was not a good thing?
I think it is silly. There is nothing wrong with being left handed. Seems like the majority tends to like to suppress the minority sometimes...

6. Do you believe people should force their children to write with one hand or the other?
I wouldn't really see a point in that...

7. Add things about which hand you write with in your family.
All my immediate family are righties (as far as I know).

Speaking of handwriting, I feel like people who go to a school where they are forced to write everything in cursive have absolutely illegible print. Both of my parents went to Catholic school and their print is pretty bad. Same goes for my one friend who attended Catholic school.
Anyone else notice this?

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:25 PM

I was forced to write in cursive for a few grades, and as such, I now write in a hybrid of cursive and print.
Which causes some people to poke fun at my weird writing. D:

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:35 PM

Flink never did see the point of learning cursive writing. Maybe for those who like it better than printing?

Flink's cursive is a joke it's so horrible.

The reason Flink's mom tried to make her right handed was because it would have been easier for her to teach Flink things than if Flink was left-handed.

As such, Flink's father died and his side of the family had little to do with Flink, so she had a very hard time learning to tie her shoes.

Yes, left-handed people are right-brain dominate. Heh, Flink's in her right mind. -snorts-

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:41 PM

1. I'm a forced ambidextrous, but I still write best with my right hand. Plus I can't do cursive at all with my left o.o;;

2. Of course. My lowercase H's look somewhat like a capital L, my capital L's look like lowercase H's o.o;; Also my lowercase K's look like a capital R since I always write them as though they were in cursive. Also my E's, lowercase and capital, look like backwards threes.

3. It is legible, but it doesn't look as nice as my right hand's writing. So, I usually use my right hand when I need my stuff to be very neat for other people, like with history notes or English papers. My left is used for math and science classes :3

4. I don't really think that making those type of judgments would work well. I've met plenty of really creative right-handed people, and plenty of logical lefties.

5. I don't really think that it's right, though heck, in the past, being different wasn't always accepted.

6. No, I don't think that it's right. One of my friends is a forced ambidextrous now because his parents didn't let him use his left hand for anything, neither did his teacher. Though his writing is crappy with either hand.

7. Most, if not all, of my family members write with their right. I'm the first in a long time on my mother's side that has been able to write legibly with their left hand in my family, so I'm sort of unique. In fact, I can't name any family member who wrote only with their left hand. The only other person I can think of that did was my dad, who broke his right arm when he was a kid and learned that way.

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:47 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ithir
I was forced to write in cursive for a few grades, and as such, I now write in a hybrid of cursive and print.
Which causes some people to poke fun at my weird writing. D:
D: I always like hybrid cursive print handwriting! I wish I could do it! I can get pretty envious of other people's handwriting.... I wish my handwriting was pretty....

Flink: bah! teaching isn't suppose to be easy!

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:51 PM

Psh, my handwriting is so illegible seeming. Hybrid or not.

Flink~ Cursive is just another way to torture school children.

And I never found it hard to learn things, and I'm left handed. .__o

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:04 PM

People are usually shocked at left handed people because only like... 2% of the population is left-handed. XD

Flink's had people think she's dumb because of the hand she writes with. She even had a teacher once, standing over her, say, "You're left handed? But you're so smart!"

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:11 PM

well i write with my right hand and write slowly with my left..but my hand writing for the most part is readable...though some people say its doctors handwriting..lol..but it is not very nice looking for girls handwriting..which i still believe overall girls have better handwriting than guys..lol

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:28 PM

1. What is all of this nonsense leading up to? Flink wants to know what hand everyone writes with.

I always write with my right hand. In college we had a teacher who encouraged us to try drawing using our other hand, and I have to say it somewhat works if you really try and focus, of course, the results are by far not as nice as with the right hand.

2. Are there any letters or numbers that you write oddly to everyone else, and they even comment on it?

No one seems to be able to read my 9s. XD

3. Is the writing with your other hand legible? Like Flink CAN write with her right hand, and you can read it. It just looks like a small child who is just learning to write had written it. XD

It is legible, but takes a bit of effort. The small child comparison works for me as well!

4. What are your thoughts on the beliefs about people who write with a certain hand? Such as people who are left handed are more artistic, creative in general, but more prone to day-dreams? And that people who are right handed are more logical and down-to-earth?

I think that's bogus...or at least has to do with other factors than with which hand you use. I dunno.

5. What about your thoughts on the belief, back in the old days by many cultures, that being left handed was not a good thing? Flink has a friend who is Chinese, she's about 40, who was threatened by her mother because she was left handed. She was even chased with a knife because it's taboo in her culture, which means now her friend writes with her right and.

That's seriously screwed up. Unfortunately it happened in many cultures, I have read stories about Germany during the Nazi regime, they used to forefully "re-educate" left-handed people. That is just wrong.:x

6. Do you believe people should force their children to write with one hand or the other? Flink's mother fought with her all the time when she was little. She wanted Flink to eat with her right hand, but Flink kept moving her spoon to the other one?

I think no one should be forced to write with the other hand if they're not comfortable with it...
With utensils it's a bit different, my parents also thought me which hand to use for which utensil, knife, fork, spoon, so I don't make an ass out of myself in an expensive restaurant...


7. Add things about which hand you write with in your family. Such as, in Flink's on her dad's side ALL of the girls are left handed and all of the males are right handed.

The odd thing is, that (as far as I know) there were no left-handed people at all in my family, just right-handed ones. O.o

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:36 PM

I'm right handed, but i can write with my left if i have to, but it's really slooooow and needs a lot of concerntration.
My sister probably should have been left handed, when she was very small we noticed her developing left-handed tendencies and gently encouraged her to use her right instead, simply because so many things are so awkward for left handed people. When she started school she was using her right hand for writing and drawing, though she does hold her dessert spoon in her left.

One of my previous team leader's at work used to be a glass cutter for a window manufacturer, and he completely severed his right hand on a faulty saw, it was re-attached but was pretty much useless, so he had to learn to write with his left but he had really nice hand-writing despite that.

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:56 PM

Your handwriting sticks to you. xP

If you learn to write with your other hand, your mouth, your feet, or any other body part... once you're as good at it as you are with your hand your handwriting will start to become exactly like it was before. o;

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:57 PM

  • 1. What is all of this nonsense leading up to? Flink wants to know what hand everyone writes with.
    Well.. I'm left-handed, but I do a lot of things with my right hand too.
    Anyway, I write using left.. so..

    2. Are there any letters or numbers that you write oddly to everyone else, and they even comment on it?
    Hm.. My 4 is rather unusual, since it's more like a little curl.. But people never comment me on it. I guess my hand-writing is just readable. xD;;

    3. Is the writing with your other hand legible?
    Yup, easy. I must admit the letters aren't that nicely written, but yeah. You can read it.

    4. What are your thoughts on the beliefs about people who write with a certain hand?
    Erm. Well, all those things you just said about left-handed people are true when it comes to me. I love to be creative and such, and daydream every time I get the chance.
    But other rumors like left-handed woman have a higher chance of getting cancer or left-handed people die earlier and are evil are just plain nonsense. So I only believe the positive beliefs. xD

    5. What about your thoughts on the belief, back in the old days by many cultures, that being left handed was not a good thing?
    Idiocy. Just stupid. My grandpa also has been threatened by his teacher to write right-handed. It's just insane.
    Who cares wether you write with left or right? As long as the message is being written down, who CARES?

    6. Do you believe people should force their children to write with one hand or the other?
    No. Recent theories say that the hand you'll write with has already been set in the uterus. When we start to learn how to write, a hand should be picked to make it grow stronger and get to know the correct movements. When no hand is picked, the right hand is suggested to be trained since an enormous amount of people on earth are right-handed.

    7. Add things about which hand you write with in your family.
    I don't really know? From my Dad's side, everyone is left-handed. So no special things.

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:59 PM

1. What hand does Seiana write with?
Usually, I write with my right. I can write with my left hand, and it isn't that much worse than my right-hand writing, but I usually stick with the right hand. I do a lot of things with my left, though.

2. Are there any letters or numbers that you write oddly to everyone else, and they even comment on it?
Actually, everyone has one comment on my writing: It sucks. I have some of the sloppiest writing everyone has ever seen. I was the ridiculous kid who got Fs in handwriting because my writing was utterly illegible. ^^;; It's gotten better now that I'm not forced to write in cursive, but my writing's neatest still looks awful.

3. Is the writing with your other hand legible?
As I said earlier, my left-hand writing is not much worse than my right-hand writing. It's decently, erm, legible if one can even call my writing legible. My writing was never good, though, so that's all I can say about it. xD

4. What are your thoughts on the beliefs about people who write with a certain hand?
Fah. A lot of left-handed people I know have absolutely no creativity to speak of, and a few of right-handed people I know are very creative. I will admit, though, it was odd when I went to a creative writing program five years ago and I was literally the only person who wrote with their right hand there.

5. What about your thoughts on the belief, back in the old days by many cultures, that being left handed was not a good thing?
That's just ridiculous. >>;

6. Do you believe people should force their children to write with one hand or the other?
No. That won't do any good. Let the child use the hand they're most comfortable with.

7. Add things about which hand you write with in your family.
Erm... Hm. My father's handwriting is also horrible. However, his looks like chicken scratch. Mine looks like child's scribbles.

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Old 07-26-2007, 05:34 PM

My handwriting is terrible. In second grade, we had to write an essay for homework once a week. I usually wound up re-doing mine because the teacher wanted "perfect handwriting" and mine is barely legible. I've had teachers tell me I have to type an assignment because they want to be able to read it.

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Old 07-26-2007, 05:40 PM

Flink's had plenty of teachers tell her she needs to type her assigments. XD Usually it was in a comedic manner, too.

"I expect all essays to be handwritten. Except some of you, -looking at Flink-, would do better to ignore my expectations and type theirs out."

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Old 07-26-2007, 05:41 PM

1. Flink wants to know what hand everyone writes with.

I write with my RIGHT HAND. Now, I've tried writing with my left, and terrible things just came out instead. I'm pretty sure what I wrote with it was ancient Hebrew or what not. o_o;

2. Are there any letters or numbers that you write oddly to everyone else, and they even comment on it?

My capital "E"s are weird. They consist of basically two "C"s on top of each other. People mistake them for the "&"/"and" sign. Yanno. . . the thing that has the "E" with two lines -- one on top and one on bottom?

3. Is the writing with your other hand legible?

Not legible at all. Like stated before, what I've written in is probably some ancient and dead language. Well, maybe I'm giving myself too much credit. That's if I write as rapidly as I do with my right hand. If I take it slow you can make out SOME characters. My "O"s look like deflated or smushed up donuts. And my straight-lined letters such as "L" or "I" look crippled.

4. What are your thoughts on the beliefs about people who write with a certain hand? Such as people who are left handed are more artistic, creative in general, but more prone to day-dreams? And that people who are right handed are more logical and down-to-earth?

Well, I'm very creative, yet I write with my right hand. I've heard that before, but I don't think it's exactly true in all cases. I'm logical, yes, but FAR from down to earth. Try crazy, if anything. I guess there are just some odd crayons that don't fit anywhere in the box -- outcasts when it comes to all sorts of things, even these beliefs. COUNT ME AS ONE OF THEM! ;D

5. What about your thoughts on the belief, back in the old days by many cultures, that being left handed was not a good thing?

I think that's just horrible. I haven't heard anything of the sort, but for some reason I'm not surprised. I wonder if that's still practiced today. If it is, something needs to be done. Never heard of it as being a taboo in a culture. Some people just prefer a different writing method. D:

6. Do you believe people should force their children to write with one hand or the other?

It's weird -- I eat with my left hand but I write with my right one. o_O; I don't think parents should force their children one way or the other. My sister holds a pencil a completely different way -- she grips it with all five finger tips and prefers writing that way. The teachers tried to force her to write "normally" though she's stuck with her normal little method. I think whatever is comfortable and whatever makes you write legibly should be fair enough. No one should be forced one way or another.

7. Add things about which hand you write with in your family.

All my family is right-handed. Not one person that's in our family is left-handed. It is a bit odd, I think. Maybe just my luck, my children will be lefties, now that I've talked about this. XD It'd truly be a sight in my family -- to see a left-handed person in the midst of all us righties.

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Old 07-26-2007, 07:48 PM

Discussion:
1. Right-handed, very much so...

2. no, my handwriting is pretty normal...

3. I write pretty good with my left hand, but it somehow looks better when I write left-handed upside down... very strange...

4. I think it springs from the idea of different sides of the brain "controlling different skills.. The right side of the brain controls the left hand and also your artistic centre lies there (I think...) that could have much to do about peole thinking left-handed people are more artistic, seeing left-handedness as a sign of more activity in the right side of your brain.. it makes sense too, but I don't think it's true in all cases...

5. I think it's horrifying... I can't say more, but superstition in the old days always got WAY out of hand!!

6. I would never do that, or support someone who did... I had a girl in my class who is left-handed, and I never even thought about it! it makes no difference, it's just a preference and habit... it would be wrong to force someone to write with their non-preferred hand.

7. I don't know of anyone in my family who are left-handed. Not a single soul ^^

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Old 07-26-2007, 08:06 PM

I’m right handed most of the time, but I do switch over to my left hand if I can’t use my right hand for writing at the time. Not when I write with my right hand, but my g’s s’s turn out a bit weird with my left hand. They’re still readable though for the most part. My writing with my right hand is a bit clearer than my left, but you can still read the left hand writing fine. I don’t think what hand you write with determines what type of person you are. I’m artistic and creative and day dream a lot and I’m mostly right handed. I also have that logical aspect to me though as well.

Making your child use one hand over the other is mean in my opinion. Whatever my children are more comfortable with they can use. It doesn’t matter to me and I don’t get why people would even care unless it was some cultural thing, but even then it’s still cruel. In my family most people are right handed. The main reason I can write with my left hand is because I’ve taught myself how to. Ever since I started writing I tried both hands so I’ve gotten used to writing with both hands.

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Old 07-26-2007, 08:08 PM

1. D:< Both! (I'm ambidextrous)

2. All Deidei's numbers are very... straight. For example, instead of having the curves a '6', '5', '2', and so on have, it'll be straight and blocky. Like on a digital clock. :P

3. Nope. They're both really normal, except when I write in Chinese with my right hand, it looks kind of scribbly and blotchy.

4. Bleh. Not true! Many people can teach themselves to be left-handed or right-handed, but they still have the same amount of creativity.

5. o_O They seriously did that?

6. Course not! People shouldn't be forced to use one hand more then the other if it makes them uncomfy.

7. :? I Don't really know much about my family's writing. I hardly see them, so... yeah.

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Old 07-26-2007, 08:09 PM

I'm right handed and I always write in cursive, because my hand writing suddenly becomes more clear than when I print. And I also thinks it's prettier >>;

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Old 07-26-2007, 08:33 PM

1. What is all of this nonsense leading up to? Flink wants to know what hand everyone writes with.
I'm left handed! ^w^

2. Are there any letters or numbers that you write oddly to everyone else, and they even comment on it?
Ehh...no. o.o But I right bubbly type letters. ^^; Kind of.

3. Is the writing with your other hand legible? Like Flink CAN write with her right hand, and you can read it. It just looks like a small child who is just learning to write had written it. XD
Yea, I can write with my right hand, but it doesn't look good. ^^;

4. What are your thoughts on the beliefs about people who write with a certain hand? Such as people who are left handed are more artistic, creative in general, but more prone to day-dreams? And that people who are right handed are more logical and down-to-earth? I dont know, I guess thats somewhat true but my sister is right handed and she's very artistic and is majoring on art. :]

5. What about your thoughts on the belief, back in the old days by many cultures, that being left handed was not a good thing? Flink has a friend who is Chinese, she's about 40, who was threatened by her mother because she was left handed. She was even chased with a knife because it's taboo in her culture, which means now her friend writes with her right and.
I think it's very stupid. It doesn't matter what hand you write with, that's the way you were made and it's the way your supposed to be.

6. Do you believe people should force their children to write with one hand or the other? Flink's mother fought with her all the time when she was little. She wanted Flink to eat with her right hand, but Flink kept moving her spoon to the other one? Hell no! That's crazy! :roll:
Just like I said in the question above, that's just how you were made and it isn't any different then some one who's right handed.

7. Add things about which hand you write with in your family. Such as, in Flink's on her dad's side ALL of the girls are left handed and all of the males are right handed. o.o Well, most of my family's right handed. Well, from what I know. ^^; My aunt is left handed though to like me.

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Old 07-26-2007, 08:45 PM



  • I'm right handed. I could never right with my left for some reason. It looks worse than my little brother's handwriting ever did. >.O;

    I'm not sure if I write oddly...nobody ever seems to mention HOW I wrote a letter, rather comment on my weird handwriting. I have different styles, and sometimes when writing a paper, I'll change styles, slanting one way, the other, making letters bubbly, more jagged, more cursive, etc. xP Makes it near illegible, or at least giving of a headache.

    I don't believe what hand you write with has anything to do with personality, it's just a more comfortable position. I've been told I'm really creative and I write with my right hand. And one of my best friends growing up was a lot more down-to-earth and she wrote with her left. xD

    Forcing children to write with one specific hand is absolutely stupid. >P
    I may have trouble teaching my kids to write if they use their left hand though. ^^;


 


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