Hand writing.

[Fnaar]

I do that hook handed thing when writing - and I am RIGHT handed .

Yes, a right-handed friend of mine does it too.

 

[nappadang]

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 was hammered by various teachers for hooking my hand and was forced to write "proper fashion." so, I now write with my head tilted way over to the right to see what I'm doing.
Still have appalling writing. I obviously blame my lefthandeness but often encounter fellow lefties with impeccable hand writing. In all honesty, a slovenly, careless attitude is more likely the cause of my illegible scrawl.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

At school my neat handwriting was always complemented.

The same with me. Now it's so bad I have left myself reminder notes that I've been unable to understand.

 

[DaveReading]

Yes, a right-handed friend of mine does it too.

There's a theory that "inverted" left-handed writers have their brains wired differently such that the the right side of the brain controls the right side of the body, rather than the more normal left/right crossover.

In another study based on language tasks, the results indicated that inverted left handers used both hemispheres equally instead of just the one usually associated with language.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

When I started school in Ireland I used to get a ruler across the knuckles from the nuns for writing with my left hand, which I still use today. That and other things fostered my life long hatred of nuns, a bunch of sexually repressed weirdos without a streak of human decency in them.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

My handwriting is awful too , I have a pal who makes pens as a bit of a sideline so have a couple of quite unique fountain pens and ballpoints that I use to give my awful scrawl a slightly nicer finish.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Left-handed non-hooky handwriter here. I never had to use a fountain pen, being youthful enough that the Berol Handwriting Pen was the stylo-du-jour. I did try cartridge pens but never got on with them. I don't get on with gel pens, either - I prefer a Staedtler Stick or a Bic Medium ant day.

I think my handwriting's ok - far better than that of my boss. I did have a phase for a time after learning Russian at school of mixing my letters, though - I kept writing 'g' for 'd'.

 

[Ian H]

Being ambidextrous I used to be able to write with either hand, but only mirror image with the left. in fact I could write with both hands simultaneously from a central line. I'm out of practice with my left hand now, but can still scrawl a decipherable mirror script.

 

[postman]

My handwriting is so bad,i ought to have been a Doctor.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My handwriting is so bad,i ought to have been a Doctor.

At least your typing skills make up for it.

 

[Over The Hill]

I feel sorry for students. They can do all their coursework on a computer and then suddenly have to sit in an exam and write an essay for 3 hours or whatever.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I have dreadful handwriting - so bad that nearly 40 years ago I switched to writing in block cap's and have done so to this day.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

If you sit on your hand and make it go numb then write a letter, it feels like someone else is writing it. That's a fact.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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:

David Cameron is also a left hander. Not that i'm a fan or anything, i just noticed him writing with it on tv the other week.

 

[Stephenite]

When I started school in Ireland I used to get a ruler across the knuckles from the nuns for writing with my left hand, which I still use today. That and other things fostered my life long hatred of nuns, a bunch of sexually repressed weirdos without a streak of human decency in them.

My mother has similar tales to tell of the senseless cruelty of nuns.

But back on track - I sat an exam a couple of years ago. I was told beforehand I could write on my laptop and print it out. And that I could probably get away with writing in english. But no sirreebob I had to hand in the work handwritten in norwegian! My command of norwegian isn't brilliant - except when talking about the weather! I used the full five hours and just scraped a pass. My right hand hadn't seen that much action since I was a teenager!