Handwriting versus typing

[MR8]

Anyone else notice when they sit down to hand write a few notes, that they can type for hours without a problem, but 5 minutes into a note and your hand feels like it's about to fall off?

 

[Seasons1992]

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

1 hour ago, MR8 said:

Anyone else notice when they sit down to hand write a few notes, that they can type for hours without a problem, but 5 minutes into a note and your hand feels like it's about to fall off?

 

 

You must be a youngster 

 

We wrote with pen and pencil  uphill both ways 

 

[Gugny]

4 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

 

You must be a youngster 

 

We wrote with pen and pencil  uphill both ways 

 

 

Too bad more of you didn't trip and fall.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

It’s only a matter of time before hand writing is completely “obsolete.”  Not even joking.

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

And if you didn't write clearly the nuns would rap your knuckles with a ruler 

Just now, Johnny Hammersticks said:

It’s only a matter of time before hand writing is completely “obsolete.”  Not even joking.

 

Amen to that.    Its almost a think of the past 

 

Signatures will  =  X  again 

[Rocket94]

1 minute ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

It’s only a matter of time before hand writing is completely “obsolete.”  Not even joking.

I found this out when I went back to college. Students would type out papers on their lap tops during class, hit print and hand it in! No rough draft required!

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

I have ADHD. Handwriting frustrates me because I already have the next three sentences thought out, but my hand writes too slow. I type a lot faster.

Edited August 13, 2019 by The Real Buffalo Joe

[ExiledInIllinois]

6 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

I have ADHD. Handwriting frustrates me because I already have the next three sentences thought out, but my hand writes too slow. I type a lot faster.

Well sloooow down.

 

And here we have it.  The day when this is actually something to be proud of.

 

Just busting your chops... But really?

1 hour ago, MR8 said:

Anyone else notice when they sit down to hand write a few notes, that they can type for hours without a problem, but 5 minutes into a note and your hand feels like it's about to fall off?

 

My son prints (which is okay)... But starts from bottom up.  WTF is that!  Drives me wild every time I see it in action!  He's 21.  

 

/smh

 

I use a hybrid font.  Print/cursive.  Drafting in school... So developed my own font.

[coloradobillsfan]

49 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

It’s only a matter of time before hand writing is completely “obsolete.”  Not even joking.

 

I don't have time to look up sources, but there is considerable evidence that shows that hand writing notes commits the information to memory a lot better than typing

[Johnny Hammersticks]

6 minutes ago, coloradobillsfan said:

 

I don't have time to look up sources, but there is considerable evidence that shows that hand writing notes commits the information to memory a lot better than typing

 

I always studied by paraphrasing my notes in writing the night before.  Worked like a charm.

[MR8]

1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

It’s only a matter of time before hand writing is completely “obsolete.”  Not even joking.

 

They no longer teach penmenship or anything like that in schools... 

1 hour ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

 

You must be a youngster 

 

We wrote with pen and pencil  uphill both ways 

 

 

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[teef]

it's gotten to the point where my hand writing can't even be read.  my wife calls it serial killer hand writing.  on top of that, i'm a lefty, and that ***** smears.  

[Seasons1992]

2 minutes ago, teef said:

it's gotten to the point where my hand writing can't even be read.  

 

HEARD. I'm not a lefty, but my work notebook is horrific and I'm the only one who knows what that crap says.

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

6 minutes ago, MR8 said:

 

They no longer teach penmenship or anything like that in schools... 

 

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Which us old codgers think is wrong 

 

[MR8]

1 minute ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

 

Which us old codgers think is wrong 

 

 

I think your dentures slipped.... You mean young? 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

1 hour ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

I have ADHD. Handwriting frustrates me because I already have the next three sentences thought out, but my hand writes too slow. I type a lot faster.

 

Try w/o the benefit of technology 

 

electronic typewriters were in vogue though 

 

 

[teef]

6 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

I always studied by paraphrasing my notes in writing the night before.  Worked like a charm.

i would do that too.  i loved writing in the margins of books too.  in graduate school, they decided to put every text we needed on a dvd, and it was the absolute worst.  i just couldn't study off a screen.

6 minutes ago, Seasons1992 said:

 

HEARD. I'm not a lefty, but my work notebook is horrific and I'm the only one who knows what that crap says.

have you ever gone back to read your notes, and you have no idea what you wrote?  that was happening to me far too often.

[Gugny]

1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

It’s only a matter of time before hand writing is completely “obsolete.”  Not even joking.

 

I actually take great pride in my penmanship.  Always have.  I can always appreciate beautiful cursive.

 

Watching cursive die is truly sad to me.

[teef]

1 hour ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

I have ADHD. Handwriting frustrates me because I already have the next three sentences thought out, but my hand writes too slow. I type a lot faster.

i missed this.  i don't have adhd, but i have the exact same thing going on.  my hand just can't move fast enough to get the ideas out, so it's shockingly sloppy.  i'm also a fast talker for that same reason.  i have a few thoughts in my head that i'm always trying to get to.  it drives old people nuts.