Page 3 | Dull and pointless thread: To think that my husband is wrong and my handwriting is perfectly legible.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 2024-11-07T11:27:15+00:00

I jotted down some notes for my husband and he said I write like a doctor 😂 Aibu to say he is wrong and my handwriting is fine. (Also, anyone want to show theirs?) YANBU - he's wrong. YABU - he's not right. No that was not a mistake.

soggybanana · 07/11/2024 13:23

I can't read it

unsync · 07/11/2024 13:21

It's a bit squirly, but legible. I suspect it's more that we don't really read handwriting much any more, so he's probably out of practice.

I think you need to only communicate with him by handwritten notes until he's up to speed.

JollyPinkFox · 07/11/2024 13:19

AtomicBlondeRose · 07/11/2024 13:17

I mark hand written exam questions all the time and this is in the top 50% for legibility - I suspect a lot of people are strongly overestimating the neatness of their own handwriting!

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Really? It has been a few years now since I marked and it was at uni level so not sure if that affects things but marking someone's 3 hour exam paper in this writing would give me a migraine

AtomicBlondeRose · 07/11/2024 13:17

JollyPinkFox · 07/11/2024 11:29

Wouldn't want to marking an exam written in this handwriting if I'm honest

I mark hand written exam questions all the time and this is in the top 50% for legibility - I suspect a lot of people are strongly overestimating the neatness of their own handwriting!

ttcat37 · 07/11/2024 13:15

MikeRafone · 07/11/2024 13:07

i Find handwriting emotive, looking at my mums handwritten recipes is rather comforting.

when dad died I found a folder of her recipes and have made them into a family cook book, using a plastic folder book and inserting the paper recipes. ( no it’s not acid free please don’t shot me for that)

So precious. Have you seen on Etsy etc that you can have handwriting (especially recipes) put onto ceramic ware? You send a clear photo of a recipe a loved one wrote, and the maker prints it onto a special transfer sheet, and you choose to have it transferred onto a jug/ dish/ platter etc. A lovely gift I’ve always thought.

FinallyMovingHouse · 07/11/2024 13:12

Mine is terrible - illegible and looks it.

Yours looks really neat on first impression and suggests that it would be easy to read, but when you actually try, it's fairly rubbish.

DH should have mastered the art by now.

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 07/11/2024 13:10

It is legible but requires more effort, not easy to read. It's very loopy and letters like t, l, c look exactly the same i.e. a loop which is normal for l but not for the others. Nothing you can do about it now though, I should think it's almost impossible to change your handwriting as an adult.

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Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 07/11/2024 13:08

MikeRafone · 07/11/2024 13:07

i Find handwriting emotive, looking at my mums handwritten recipes is rather comforting.

when dad died I found a folder of her recipes and have made them into a family cook book, using a plastic folder book and inserting the paper recipes. ( no it’s not acid free please don’t shot me for that)

That's lovely handwriting.

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thicklysettled · 07/11/2024 13:08

Sorry - team husband!!

MikeRafone · 07/11/2024 13:07

i Find handwriting emotive, looking at my mums handwritten recipes is rather comforting.

when dad died I found a folder of her recipes and have made them into a family cook book, using a plastic folder book and inserting the paper recipes. ( no it’s not acid free please don’t shot me for that)

Dull and pointless thread: To think that my husband is wrong and my handwriting is perfectly legible.

ObtuseMoose · 07/11/2024 13:07

It's too loopy and you aren't forming the letters properly, I'm with your husband.

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Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 07/11/2024 13:06

DieStrassensindimmernass · 07/11/2024 12:56

Both of your options mean you are correct.
You are not correct.
Reading more than one or two sentences in this handwriting would be quite tiresome, plus we know what this is meant to say once we read the first few words.

Yes .
They do.
That was the joke.

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Everydayimhuffling · 07/11/2024 13:05

I think it's fine, but I'm an English teacher (part time, not posting from work!) and can work out most handwriting. I would put yours towards the bottom of the marking pile though, with the ones that require extra time.

FictionalCharacter · 07/11/2024 13:04

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 07/11/2024 11:33

Well OK. If you promise. 😀

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Hard to read- I didn’t get the word after deformation or one of the later words, and wouldn’t have got “actuators” if I hadn’t realised the context.

RampantIvy · 07/11/2024 13:03

Sorry, but after your second post I have to agree with your husband.

Birdscratch · 07/11/2024 13:00

You don’t write like a doctor. It doesn’t have that slapdash quality. Your Cs and Os can be confusing.

MikeRafone · 07/11/2024 12:59

I worked in an archive for many years, deciphering handwriting was a bit like unraveling knitting but you get used to it.

tell him to practice more

Hoardasurass · 07/11/2024 12:59

Sorry @Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast but that's illegible

Welshwabbit · 07/11/2024 12:58

PS also left-handed. I had a fountain pen at school and my whole time was spent trying not to smudge what I'd just written as I never figured out how to do that "round the top" writing thing that other lefties did.

Welshwabbit · 07/11/2024 12:57

Sorry OP, I also agree with your husband. I read doctors' handwriting as a significant part of my job, and I still couldn't make out "corrosion" and "actuators".

DieStrassensindimmernass · 07/11/2024 12:56

Both of your options mean you are correct.
You are not correct.
Reading more than one or two sentences in this handwriting would be quite tiresome, plus we know what this is meant to say once we read the first few words.

WearyAuldWumman · 07/11/2024 12:55

I'm a retired teacher. Latterly, I had many pupils who could not - or would not - read joined up handwriting. (Everything had to be typed out or hand printed.) My suspicion is that your husband has a similar issue.

OneTC · 07/11/2024 12:54

I can read it easily but I hate it

Sparklfairy · 07/11/2024 12:54

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 07/11/2024 12:24

I pretty much taught myself. I am left handed and can't write across the page over my writing because it's always been really painful. So I turn my paper sideways and write down towards myself iyswim. Which always got me in trouble at school!

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As a fellow leftie.... all I have to say is wtf!! That's impressive and confusing and the same time

I can't say I've ever found writing painful, apart from I squeeze the pen too hard and have a permanent dent in my middle finger. I also can't really get my head around right-handers because they write 'away' from the words in a pull motion, whereas I only know pushing into the letters (and smudging what I've just written).

At school there was a couple of left-handers that would curl their arm up and over the page, bending their hand round so their fingers were on the lines above what they were writing. Essentially doing the right-handed pull motion but with their left hand.

Does any of that make sense, or do I need another coffee...

ttcat37 · 07/11/2024 12:53

We all chipped in and bought you this.