Hand writing.

[ColinJ]

I never understood why we had to use ink cartridge pens at school. They were great for getting blue blotches over hands and paper but did nothing I can recall for my handwriting. But in any case I could never see why (all) my teachers moaned about my handwriting, as I could read it and knew it was OK.

I thought that most of what went on at my school was pretty stupid, but I suppose that it did succeed in churning out an awful lot of future doctors, scientists, engineers etc. Pupils getting less than 7 or 8 decent O-levels were considered hopeless failures and anything less than 3 decent A-levels was disappointing.

 

[Dayvo]

I've always preferred the simple Bic pen with a fine nib.

I've got four pencil cases full of pens and pencils I've 'acquired' over the years, and only about 2-3 pens are used.

And my hand-writing is still quite respectable.

 

[HertzvanRental]

When I were a lad, folk aspired to owning a Parker "51". Now, they give Parker's away with insurance quotes!!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Left handed scrawl..with a dyslexic twist..here.

 

[vernon]

I get my butler to write my letters.

 

[ScotiaLass]

I wouldn't have thought you were old enough to remember ink pots!

I used them for a year or two in the mid-1960s before changing to a pen which used ink cartridges. I was not allowed to use ballpoint pens for my first few years at grammar school. I once had to rewrite a multi-page history essay because the teacher refused to mark it (I had run out of cartridges and written it using a ballpoint pen).

My handwriting was never fantastic but it has definitely suffered from me spending many years using keyboards instead.

I do still scribble notes on scraps of paper though rather than typing everything on my desktop PC, laptop, tablet or phone.

I'm not really, but I do remember my mum having one which I got to use to write my 'thank-you' notes with at Christmas

 

[DaveReading]

Hands up any left-handers who went to school in the days when they made you write with a ridiculous left-handed nib on your fountain pen.

Like many of my fellow southpaws, I soon developed the technique (that I use to this day) of hooking my hand around the top of my writing and using an ordinary nib.

It seems I'm in good company:

 

[ColinJ]

Hands up any left-handers who went to school in the days when they made you write with a ridiculous left-handed nib on your fountain pen.

Like many of my fellow southpaws, I soon developed the technique (that I use to this day) of hooking my hand around the top of my writing and using an ordinary nib.

It seems I'm in good company:

It isn't all about the nib though, is it? I asked a left-handed colleague why he wrote (in biro) like that and he told me that it was simply so he could see what he had written so far. It is hard to keep track of what you are writing if your hand is always in the way.

 

[DaveReading]

It isn't all about the nib though, is it?

It was in our case, The argument was that we were supposed to be writing in italics, and that without the special nib left-handers would end up making their thick strokes thin and vice versa. Hard to believe nowadays, I know.

I asked a left-handed colleague why he wrote (in biro) like that and he told me that it was simply so he could see what he had written so far. It is hard to keep track of what you are writing if your hand is always in the way.

Ideally, left-handers ought to be allowed to write across the paper from right to left (so that they look like a mirror-image of a right-hander).

 

[Dave 123]

My handwriting is good, good enough to garner comments like

" is that your handwriting? Really? Well... I wouldn't have...." Que sheepish face.

I try not to decipher these comments.

 

[guitarpete247]

Lamy Safari? Best pen ever.

I have two. One black, the other Red for marking kids work. Love them both. I think I'm the only teacher at my school who uses fountain pens.

 

[swee'pea99]

If I write in capitals, sometimes I can come back to it later and figure out what it says.
Sometimes.

 

[Fnaar]

I have rather lovely handwriting, so I'm often told

And not by Russian ladies after my loot, neither.

Hands up any left-handers who went to school in the days when they made you write with a ridiculous left-handed nib on your fountain pen.

Like many of my fellow southpaws, I soon developed the technique (that I use to this day) of hooking my hand around the top of my writing and using an ordinary nib.

It seems I'm in good company:

It isn't all about the nib though, is it? I asked a left-handed colleague why he wrote (in biro) like that and he told me that it was simply so he could see what he had written so far. It is hard to keep track of what you are writing if your hand is always in the way.

I'm a lefty too, I don't do the hook-hand thing, and my handwriting is (as I put above) rather lovely

 

[Brandane]

Hands up any left-handers who went to school in the days when they made you write with a ridiculous left-handed nib on your fountain pen.

Like many of my fellow southpaws, I soon developed the technique (that I use to this day) of hooking my hand around the top of my writing and using an ordinary nib.

It seems I'm in good company:

I do that hook handed thing when writing - and I am RIGHT handed . Like @ColinJ 's colleague, I find it easier to see what I am writing.

 

[mybike]

My handwriting was (is) bad, I had limited success with a Parker of my father's than had been filled with red ink (used for accounts) but in the end I used a Rotring fountain drawing pen which had a tubular nib. Didn't improve my handwriting but it was great for drilling holes in paper. It had the advantage that I could use it in Maths, where we were supposed to use ballpoints.

Curiously while I'm generally right handed I used to bat (badly) left handed.