good handwriting or bad handwriting: which is sexier?

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an insipid question perhaps, but on everyone's minds just the same

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

p.s. i am serious

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

bad handwriting

― minna (minna), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I find bad handwriting just frustrating. However i would never find either sexy...i dont think.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

why minna?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Good handwriting. Especially when done with a calligraphic fountain pen!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate that cute bubble-shaped handwriting. Flowing Christmas-card-style handwriting gets sort of dull. There is a certain sort that makes me swoon and it is always, always somewhat messy and what would normally possibly be considered 'bad'. but then what constitutes good/bad? Bad = not writing as taught? FASCISTS

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

distinctive handwriting wins.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

which girls here used to dot their i's and j's with a circle or worse a heart in everyday writing? i noticed a few did that during my school days

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I never did the circle dotted I or J. That really really used to irritate me. I would do it with a calligraphic pen, and try to get the dot to be a perfect tilted square.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

handwriting styles really are rather revealing..

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i sort of mean neat, evenly-spaced easily-readable handwriting, conforming to some invisible line-rule vs. wild unruly borderline-illegible handwriting that bends and gets bigger and smaller with no seeming purpose

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the swedish linguists have it!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

my bad handwriting = indicative only of the fact that I was briefly starved of oxygen at birth and thus very slightly braIN DAmaged (this actually = the truth!!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

have what? ey?

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Pashmina, but it's still indicative!

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I find illegible handwriting to be a total dud. I mean, you don't have to write like a manuscripting monk, but you should be legible. AND NO ALL CAPS HANDWRITING, EITHER.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

so how does cursive twiddle your collective knobs?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a kid when I was at school who had deformed arms and hands, and thus had to hold a pen between his toes. He was onyl at my school for like a term (this was when I was about 9). He had better handwriting than me.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(if i don't write in all caps though, no-one but me can actually read it!!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

but. but, have what?

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to dot my i's and j's with a circle, but that was excusable considering I was only maybe about ten years old or somesuch. I was once friends with a girl who in high school still dotted her i's and j's with a circle (or sometimes even a heart), so I wasn't exactly totally surprised when she became a huge boyband fanatic. These reasons would be some of the many why she's a former friend, ladies and gents.

(Oh yeah, and I have since made up for my crimes against handwriting by actually developing a sort of professional-looking handwriting by the time I was about 17 years old and then going with it, as well as by learning some calligraphy when I was about 12.)

I love seeing handwriting from males that looks nice and neat and even a bit pretty. There was this one time when I had a male prof who wrote in a very flowy, nice, and neat sort of style and I absolutely looked forward to going to his class. Though I wouldn't exactly call his handwriting or that of other "good penmanship" males "sexy" -- just really, really nice to look at.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(many many x-posts later) because i have it!

real reason:
there are many different kind of 'bad' handwriting... the first kind i thought of was a messy, absent minded scrawl. i like this in the same way i like ppl's houses that are a bit relaxed - don't have everything meticulously arranged - i was watching queer eye for the straight guy this evening and i cringed when we got to see the newly made over lounge room with every cushion placed on the settee 'just so'...... i guess what i'm saying is that kind of bad handwriting suggests a level of relaxedness and maybe preoccupation that is attractive.
it also has childlike qualities, which can be endearing.... this brings me to the second kind of 'bad' handwriting i thought of - it's the kind that i've only ever seen girls use, it is very rounded and it might have circles or even hearts over the i's and j's instead of dots... it makes me think of check out chicks and smash hits magazines, and i like this.

good handwriting makes me think of a girl i knew who made very elaborate calligraphied invitations and when i got them i just felt kind of sad. ditto the kind of 'artistic' handwriting you might see on cafe blackboards with lots of curly bits.

― minna (minna), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

come on amateurist, answer penelope's question!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Pashmina

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

ILP!

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

strictly speaking the cafe blackboard handwriting is probably better categorised as 'bad' handwriting.... the case for bad handwriting is weakened by this, but still stands

― minna (minna), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

overly florid handwriting and "perfect" handwriting (evenly spaced, clearly deliniated letters, perfect cursive, etc.) remind me of my mother, who went to charm school (which explains why i am a constant disappointment) and writes in a script that always makes me read it in a julie andrews singing voice. therefore, decidedly unsexy.

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a chicken scrawl like a serial killers, however, and everyone knows i'm a sex god.

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

amateurist what is your take?

― minna (minna), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing turns me off faster than handwriting that doesn't measure up to my own high standards of elegance. as teeny says, "good" or "bad" is beside the point. if it looks like junior-high writing (and i'm SHOCKED at how much handwriting does, regardless of the writer's particular theology of style) my opinion of you just went down - gosh i am a shallow motherfucker

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

what if your writing has looked the same since junior high?

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

except inflected with a subtle bitter jadedness from 10 years of tears?

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

AMATEURIST

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

it's just an expression, "the ___s have it"

an archaic version of the now-ubiquitous "OTM"

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

and now: which handwriting do you prefer amateur!st?

― minna (minna), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

oh.

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

goato, never allow me to see your handwriting, is what i'm saying. seriously, there's this girl in my course who is the Wrong Girl (for so many reasons) yet of course that's exactly why i was drawn to her... we sat next to each other one class and i saw that she was doodling in her notebook, as i was in mine. we started comparing doodles and snarfling at each other a bit, but then she WROTE something on her page for me to read, and the letters were too squat and wide, and she made the descender of her "y" curl all the way left, like an underline, and i was cured.

amateurist you still haven't explained about the swedish linguists

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i prefer neat handwriting of course

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

but sometimes i wonder why

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

it does seem to fit, go with the flow

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i think that ties into the anticipated joke about swedish linguists

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

her black frame glasses and blonde hair tied back, her stern command of the chalk and a thoroughness of instruction that leaves no room for mistake.... am i right????

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i was going to note that they are cunning

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i.e. everyone is an enigma to himself; to others, maybe not so much

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ahem

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

brown hair, then?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

haha

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(yes)

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i didn't notice your email address until just a moment ago, penelope! i meant that cartoonishly freudian "swedish linguist" to describe what i imagine one of amateurist's own archetypes of "sexy" to be

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

fraid not

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

oh. how confusing.

I didn't quite understand that but I shall imagine it was genial and warmhearted.

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

me neither

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm, graphology

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

amatur!st you say that you think very neat handwriting is sexiest "of course" though upon further reflection you don't know why this should be; i extrapolated from your other posts about women u like that you tend to idolize them a little, and that being nervous and afraid of fucking up in their presence indicates to you that you really like them - to me this is classic "submissive" stuff, so the intellectual yet loving taskmaster seemed to fit? apologies if totally wrong, i'm just havin fun - i have to keep reminding myself everyone out there is a real human bean, with more in their heavens and earths than just freud's philosophy (however i am surprised that i am so dismissably wrong!)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Printing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

What is wrong with the descender of the Y going all the way to the left like an underline? (I do this.)

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't people scan some of their handwriting and post it here? I'd really love to see what it's like, and if your writing matches the way I perceive your personalities.

― C J (C J), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

it was the blonde part really

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

also sometimes i am not being entirely straightfaced sometimes

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

;)

we could add handwriting samples to the woefully under-answered doodle thread maybe

i need to find a scanner!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no webspace otherwise I'd show my handwriting

drat

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

do you have a web site that can host pictures tracer? i want to post one

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=3832264

only a few people scanned in theirs though.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

that should be: Handwriting.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i do, but i can't access it from this computer :(

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I am often told I have the "strangest" (read "worst") handwriting in the world.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

bouh I want webspace!!!!

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Get yourself a free Geocities account, penelope. You can post quite a few pics on that for free, and then just link to them from here.

― C J (C J), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never even contemplated the ides of someone's handwriting being sexy.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Geocities.. don't they take all your info and then steal your mother or something?

(Dan, you just need to meet the write handwriting-style)

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god that was freudian

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

and NOT a pun

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(write = right)

― penelope (penelope), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

in my experience, all professors have messy writing.

― youn, Monday, 10 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

No shit, I get notes from them all the time, and it irritates the hell out of me. I think it reflects arrogance on their part - they're not even thinking about whether you can read their instructions or not.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 10 November 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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