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.

Quite honestly I think it nearly looks nice but misses the mark and just looks messy and that's because it's inconsistent - your loops on long letters are different sizes and the same letters aren't the same size throughout. I understand what it should look like but that's not what the final effect is.

When I first saw it I thought you had been taught in a language that does not use cursive. Your letters are not formed in a traditional way. Lots of the letters are unfinished and are not linked with clear distinction. When you explained about how you write it all be came clear. I found it very difficult to read despite spending many years as a copy typist, copying from hand writing. Quite often from those who did not learn to write in cursive .

DH has very ‘neat’ writing with small even letters, but it is impossible to read

Very difficult to read!!

Hmmm. I can't agree with either of you to be honest.

On the one hand, the letters are large, even and fairly consistent, so much better than the average "doctor's handwriting". On the other hand the loops make it harder to read, and some of your letters take a very unusual form. I expect if I was reading a couple of pages of that handwriting then I'd get used to how you form the letters and it would become easy to read, but just reading one sentence off the bat does take a bit of squinting and guesswork.

Some issues:

• your lower case e's, l's, c's and t's all look the same.
• the n's at the end of words are atrocious, barely formed at all,
• What is that K at the end of "quick" all about?
• Your lower case o's are all over the place, no consistency to them and very hard to read if you don't already know what the word is.

That said, I will say I do think your writing looks nice, with all the loops and fairly consistent sizing and spacing :)

It’s terrible, sorry! I can’t read it!

That’s easier to decipher as it’s a well known sentence, so once you’ve worked out the first few words it’s easier for your brain to fill the gaps, if you see what I mean. I think it’s definitely legible though, and not quite as bad as a doctor 🤣 but you would need to write a random sentence then ask us again to get more accurate answers I think

I find it really hard to read the large, round, yet squashed and not joined-up letters that many people seem to use. My parents like italic script, and I learnt very loopy cursive, not unlike OP's but even loopier.

Well, I know when I'm beaten so fair enough. I will do my super slow tidy trying hard writing for him in future.
It takes bloody ages and I tend to give up and go back to my natural writing because who'sgot time to sit there slowly drawing letters.

Still, never let it be said I don't listen to feedback.
Eventually. 😁

Visual inspection of bed for wear, defermatia (deformation?), corrosion and damage. Check lifting activators both ends? Yes that was definitely more difficult to make out and took me a while 🤣

It’s a bit on the lacey side but I don’t have any problems with it. Mind you, I have marked literally thousands of university exam scripts over the past couple of decades and I think I have only returned a script for illegibility once (the protocol is that the student is called in to read out their script which is then typed up for marking).

It is easier to read side on, definitely, and the second example is easier to read than the first (sideways, I mean).

Could you perhaps try printing instead of all that loopy stuff OP? It's really quite hard to read (I mean, it can be 'deciphered' eventually, in the main, but with effort required...which isn't really what you want when writing a note or letter to someone is it??)

Surely writing in capitals would solve the issue?