> > Heh. It's completely off-topic, but I stopped writing in cursive pretty much after I was required to back in elementary school.
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> The same is true for me. I haven't written anything in cursive (besides my signature) for about 15 years. For me, cursive was always slower to write, more taxing on the hand after a while, and more difficult to read than printed writing.
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Likewise, here. Since I knew how to write before I started school, they threw me right into cursive instead of printing, but it was still too late for me. :-) (I used to make lowercase "a" and "g" as they appeared in Times - well, that's how they did it in books!) I tried for about four years but I never got as quick with cursive as with printing. My cursive is so bad now from lack of practice that it's completely illegible - only my signature is decent.

My printing is fairly connected; no slant whatsoever, with a few connections: "t" loops into "h" like Trip's, various other letters will connect threadlike; I take my pen just far enough up to lessen the pressure without going off the paper. And I like writing "of"s... the "o" makes a little counterclockwise loop upward into the downstroke of the "f" (which *is* a descending letter, even printed - it looks nice that way).

I really like my own writing, but I seem to be in the minority. My mother says it's the writing of a serial killer. My chemistry teacher claimed I had the worst handwriting for a girl he'd ever seen. Which is another thing - I don't think my writing is identifiable as belonging to either gender.

Took up calligraphy when I was 11, which considering my usual sloppiness I'm decent at - I suppose because then the form rather the content of the words is in the forefront of my mind. And I've always loved experimenting with different "fonts" and writing systems - none quite so elaborate as B-G's, but I've played with some semi-calligraphic styles... agreed, it's just not the same in ballpoint...

I still write more than I type, though the latter's catching up. I *like* handwriting, and seeing the writing of others; handwriting shows a great deal of personality. But maybe I'm just weird.

-Fob"used to be into graphology, too"ulis