Rant: Illegible Handwriting

[Vallium]

I have a new/reawakened pet peeve after an intimate several moments with a variety of human beings who I only know by a singular strip of paper and what constitutes as the creation of language based on visual scrawlings on said paper.

...and wouldnt you know it? These people have defeated the entire purpose of visual communication by rendering shapes that are completely USELESS AND COMMUNICATE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

I am so amazed at how some people screw up that bad. How do you live your life knowing you failed a basic human quality taught in the kinderest of gartens?

I'm looking at YOU John 'Marlap' if that is even your real name that you cant even spell, how the hell is it that I read the word "Oaks" as "Sales"...HOWWWW??? DUDE YOU COULDNT TAKE A SINGULAR SECOND TO CONNECT YOUR DAMN LETTERS SO YOUR "s" forms an "o" and your "l" and "e" form an actual "k"

And YOU, Rick, how the hell does that giant '0' be conceived as a '4'...it's literally a giant ovular shape there is absolutely no other number it could be read as besides a 0 but you try to pass that shit off as a 4, were you freaking drunk, man?

Also frick people who think they're being fancy fucks with their fancy ass motherfucking cursive like there's a reason that shit is dead if you cant do that right it's as illegible as hell,

Also dear Linda, I don't GAF that you are an aries why the frick are you putting the aries symbol in the portion where a number should reside in your date of birth, Get that horoscope shit out of here

 

It's inconceivable how absolutely horrible these handwritings are. If you have horrible handwriting and you make me read it...I will kill you. Don't do it.

This is on par with grammar in how unbelievably obnoxious it is to read things.

 

Now if you excuse me I shall return to the business I am conducting. *fixes tie*

Edited February 20, 2016 by WolfNightV4X1

[DevilishlyHandsome49]

My handwriting isnt perfection but I never heard of it being that bad before 0_0. The "O" for "4" baffles me!

I can write well in print and cursive (learned it in 2nd grade at a Christian School) though now I mostly go in print. Its faster

[Clove Darkwave]

It's much more unforgivable to have abominable typing if you ask me. No one actually taught me how to write, I did that myself with a textbook so my handwriting is complete garbage. Although it's still better than doctor handwriting.

[Vallium]

8 hours ago, Clove Darkwave said:

It's much more unforgivable to have abominable typing if you ask me. No one actually taught me how to write, I did that myself with a textbook so my handwriting is complete garbage. Although it's still better than doctor handwriting.

Touche. If someone is going to screw up typing words so bad...thats the epitome of lazy considering the keys do all the work for you and all you have to know is what combination of buttons to hit to make words look right

Also how does one not teach you towrite? Did you have bad schooling or simply not attend?

8 hours ago, 6tails said:

Cursive is shit...More efficient, less strain on the wrist, less strain on the writing implement. A simple change of tip or angle can create dozens of stylistic variations, I don't see how doctors manage to fail at it so badly.

Ftfy

I'll agree that those are pros though, and executed neatly could be legible.

However, most people speed through writing and with these super similar looking shapes its impossible to read at times (heck, even neatly)Observe, 

Oftentimes you just have to rely on context to get the meaning which is what I had to do to deduce some of those infantile scribblings

Well anyways, not to rain on the cursive parade. Good penmenship is a nice quality and is often a pleasure to read in comparison, so hey if it works.

Edited February 20, 2016 by WolfNightV4X1

[Caledonian]

let me show you something

yep. horrible.
and I write in cursive only if I need others to be able to read it. 
otherwise I write like this:

3 minutes ago, WolfNightV4X1 said:

most people speed through writing

as illustrated above I have a special "speed writing" style

[Clove Darkwave]

4 minutes ago, WolfNightV4X1 said:

Touche. If someone is going to screw up typing words so bad...thats the epitome of lazy considering the keys do all the work for you and all you have to know is what combination of buttons to hit to make words look right

Also how does one not teach you towrite? Did you have bad schooling or simply not attend?

Not to mention hitting Send beforehand.

I dunno memories are vague these days. I recall being frustrated that I couldn't be shown how to do it and just imitating it until I learned it.

[GarthTheWereWolf]

I feel your pain WolfNight.... I deal with horrible hand writing all the time when trying to transcribe doctor's orders- ughhhh. And they have the gall to get all pissy when you have to call them up for clarification because all they wrote was a mass of loopy squiggles and a circle. Penmenship skills should be a requirement for the medical field. Its like they're just asking for med variances.

As for cursive.. I'm guilty of writing almost entirely in cursive in my every day life except for when I'm at work. Since when I'm documenting I gotta be sure -everyone- can read it. But cursive is a much faster, smoother way of writing than print. Print strains my wrist when I do it for too long.

Edited February 20, 2016 by GarthTheWereWolf

[Astus]

I love that no one can read my handwriting, I just talk all logic to my professors so they think I'm smart, then on my assignments and tests I just scribble all my answers and they usually just give me the points after they read what they think I would say... it's a win ^-^

[Astus]

3 minutes ago, Saxon said:

Well you are writing in crayons. 

I'll have you know that I usually use a number two pencil, crayons are so outdated 

[Terminal7]

I feel the need to write you a letter now. 

[Khaki]

 

Christ, I haven't written in cursive since I was in highschool, ever since then, everything has been in written in large legible capital letters in a short abbreviated format with dot points and acronyms so it can actually be read by others.

My cursive was bad because after having written a paragraphs worth, my sentences would eventually taper as my writing became smaller and smaller out of habit to the point that I think only I knew what was written down on the page with those minuscule squiggles, goodness knows how teachers managed to mark my papers.

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When people are rushed I can understand a deterioration in handwriting; my own becomes pretty bad in exams. 

Personally I write in a sort of Gothic script.

That sounds neat, you're going to have to show us your handwriting now. @Saxon

Edited February 20, 2016 by Khaki

[Revates]

I am consistently told I have the worst handwriting people have ever seen. I am proud of this fact and deserve some form of prize. (I do try to write neatly but I really just can't, I swear I'm cursed.)

[Vallium]

27 minutes ago, Saxon said:

 

Oh shiz thats some sexy penmanship, yo

[Rukh Whitefang]

Well, there are some people like myself who have had hand injuries which crippled our ability to have good handwriting. Try writing without being able to bend your upper thumb joint at all (the joint is nearly fused).

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

My handwriting is about as good as a 1st graders

[Jerry]

It's amazing when you look at archived censuses, back when people went house by house and fill the paperwork by hand. You look at hundreds of pages from different areas, thus definitely filled by different people, in some cases it's impossible to see any difference.

And I still write like a 7 years old. Seriously, I look at the stuff I wrote in non-cursive when I was 7 and it hasn't changed a single bit...

[FenrirDarkWolf]

My handwriting's not exactly the BEST but...
Generally, I kinda write in this weird print-cursive mix where I write in print and then suddenly switch to cursive for letters that can be more easily connected.

And also it's slanted italics style.

It's not normally like that if I want people to read it, but if I'm note-taking, it generally ends up looking that way.

[Vae]

My handwriting does what I need it to.

[Wrecker]

Just now, Vae said:

My handwriting does what I need it to.

No doubt. Wow. :O

Also,

[Vae]

Also, I'm gonna tack on the advice to people wanting to work on their own handwriting, to draw comics.
Or, more specifically, to hand-write the wording in your comics.



It goes quite a ways in making you
   1. wary of how legible your writing actually is
   2. forcing you to interpret written language more visually, to express a specific idea, rather than just through direct translation of the word.

Being conscious of typeface amounts to the same basic thing, but I feel there's a lot more freedom in doing it yourself, rather than hunting down a very specific font for 34878723 hours.

[Kinare]

Occasionally I run into people with atrocious handwriting. It seems like those in the medical field have some of the worst handwriting, despite how important it is that what they write is understandable. I've always been told that I have very good handwriting, but I do write very small. When I'm writing something I think my clients will be reading I have to remind myself to write bigger so they can read it, but the bigger I write the worse it seems to look. ><

I do think a lot of people just rush it and because they know what they wrote it doesn't look as bad to them as someone who doesn't know what they wrote. When I find myself rushing I definitely do see the quality of my writing go down, but I try to be aware of that because I feel like writing well is very important in my field.

[Alexxx-Returns]

1 hour ago, Kinare said:

Occasionally I run into people with atrocious handwriting. It seems like those in the medical field have some of the worst handwriting, despite how important it is that what they write is understandable.

I think this starts in med school. Have you seen the amount of content that's in our lectures? You HAVE to scrawl out your writing if you want to get through it all in time!

And then there's being half asleep. I've written things by now that are COMPLETELY unrecognisable as words because I've been too tired to write it out properly.

[#00Buck]

Mine is so bad if I write something down and try to read it a few days later I have no clue what it says. 

[ZorroValdez]

On 2/20/2016 at 1:01 AM, WolfNightV4X1 said:

If you have horrible handwriting and you make me read it...I will kill you.

The temptation is strong. c:

[Sutekh_the_Steak]

My handwriting used to be god fucking awful but it's gotten a bit better recently. Letters still vary in size and shape and sometimes an "s" looks like an "f" but it's about readable.

[Zaraphayx]

The only shit I write by hand is shit that only I need to read anyway. it's like having my own cipher that is completely uncrackable by mortal man.

if I'm going to produce written material for the hoi polloi I'm going to just use a computer and type anyway because this is 2016 and I'm not a barbarian. :^)

 

[Snagged]

I can imagine how useful fast and fluid cursive writing was when you didn't have typewriters, computers, printers or the internet to do all the writing for you

[Käpt'n]

The handwriting of one of my old teachers was so bad, when he left notes for the other teachers they all had to get together to "solve" what his note says.
Also, when he graded our tests and exams we had no idea what we did wrong because the notes he left next to what we had written were illegible chicken scratch as well.

[LazerMaster5]

My handwriting is pretty shit.