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

[Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast]

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.

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.

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.

Yes .
They do.
That was the joke.

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

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)

Sorry - team husband!!

That's lovely handwriting.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

I can't read it

I couldn't decipher that

I can mostly read it, but it's hard and it hurts my brain.
So I don't want to.

It's like text speak in the old days, I just can't be bothered trying after a while and just give up.

BTW, my handwriting isn't great either but if it's for someone else I try harder.

It shows.

In school they used to make kids do something called writing patterns.

Basically long lines of the same letter all joined up in the same way. This makes the way you write each letter identical and the joining consistent.

The fact that you are self taught shows in the respect that you don't consistently join your letters. it's important, because it is often how you join that helps define what the letter is. So for example o, e can be quite similar, but kids were taught o joins at the top and e joins at the bottom.

I have no idea whether kids are taught this way these days.

I had a kind of similar problem in Chinese. I learnt the symbols to read. I thought I could communicate with a Chinese person by writing. But as you write they watch the order you do the strokes. Because my order was all screwed up, they couldn't figure out what I was writing.

You're still wrong.

I agree with your DH. Sorry OP. It's too "flouncy" with too many loops and flourishes.

My late Mum's handwriting was very similar to your Mum's. I have recipes she wrote 😍

I had a lot of training in reading weird handwriting during my degree in medieval studies, and I’m usually pretty good at it. I would still struggle to decipher your script, OP! (I also struggle to read my own sometimes 😁)

I can read the first perfectly but that’s because I know what the sentence you’ve written says. Just under half of the letters of the alphabet aren’t clearly formed in your example so when you wrote the second piece it wasn’t clear. For example, in the first piece OG looks like EY. If you write frog, does it look like FREY?

Most lefties have poor handwriting – my DH does. It's fairly illegible, OP. I would just try your best to write more clearly if leaving necessary notes for others. Print in caps for example

I can read it, but I can read doctors' handwriting too, and handwriting in parish ledgers from the 1700s, so I'm pretty good at interpreting.

My handwriting looks horrible (tall and skinny, but good pressure), but is very legible. Yours is the opposite I'm afraid! I'm also a left-hander - I tilt my hand right down (wrist very low down, fingers up to the line I'm writing on) so I can write without smudging.

Hard to read - tc and l look the same, the o, a and z are unclear