AIBU to be a handwriting snob

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Yes, I probably am but this is my first AIBU (in 2 years!) so be gentle

Looking at DD's geography books she has started doing what I call bimbo handwriting - round circles instead of dots above the i's, big massive circle shaped a's, d's and p's etc (wish could articulate what I mean).

She used to have normal handwriting. God knows why she has decided to change it. AIBU to tell her to stop writing like this and go back to normal? (BTW DP has told me to leave her alone and stop being a fussy old mare)

I think I saw how Donny Osmond wrote his signature and copied his y for a while. Can still remember it.

FWIW, in the nineteenth century rounded writing was considered to be masculine and serious whereas joined up italic style writing was considered to be feminine and suitable for writing letters and other such unimportant trivialities

So there is no reason why one should consider joined up handwriting as "proper" and bimbo writing to be a "phase" to grow out of.

Personally I wish I could still do bimbo writing (although lol @ image of those great big circles on tiny stems) as it's much neater than my current hurried scrawl

I suppose I was about 13...

The thing is, the typefaceAs became an ingrained habit, and I still think that it's only sensible to do French sevens because otherwise you get mixed up with ones.

lol at this thread. i remember ages spent trying out different handwriting styles. leaning forward? leaning backward? very teeny? (i remember a preference for very fine-gauge pens). 57 varieties of loop on ys, gs, even qs. yes to typeface a and french 7s, and hours spent practising ampersands (still can't do them though). i still have a diary from then and it looks like six different people wrote it. never did bimbo writing tho'... not sure why. i suspect i wasn't trendy enough!

BIWI - what is a medieval 'e'?

just so I can do one in my next shopping list

Plus, typeface As do look prettier...

my baby sister is heading towards 13, has been feeding her gel-pen addiction since the age of about 5, and has always had the very rounded, 'bimbo-ish' writing you describe, at least since she started copying one of her friends at around 7 or 8.

She's a straight-A student headed for a career as a classical musician so the 'bimbo' thing is certainly not applicable in her case. Can't judge a teenager by their handwriting.

Sevens only get mixed up with ones if you do French ones

My DH has distinctive but small handwriting , and sometimes comments on handwriting in cards (oh, she has nice handwriting etc).

My handwriting is ''heavy'' , and sometimes smudged, and a bit rushed.... but that is because i'm left handed (that's my excuse)

Any sort of hook on a one makes it sevenish, IMO < defends self >

A hook on a one is French

or German. Or generally continental

But then you are saying that a one should be written l rather than 1, and that is just silly. I know the French go a bit overboard though.

yes, of course a 1 should be written as you just wrote it. (How did you do that?)

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Oh it's not that is it?

I do french 7s after working in a lab - it was a lot clearer for dates etc when scribbled on a test tube, much easier to differentiate between 1 & 7.

A girl I was at school with did all the stuff on here, I think she probably still does now judging by her fb statuses

| - that is it, tinker, no?

written | - oh no

That big round handwriting was known as "Durannie" handwriting back in the day. As in, the girls who wrote like that were Duran Duran fans .

This is an actual fact .

My writing is very messy, but yes, I remember experimenting with it. It used to be very fashionable to 'practice' our signatures

Is it a recent thing, or do all schools now teach everyone to do baby handwriting? I've seen quite a lot of it - the little neat circles and little lines. A lot of it seems to be the work of dd's schoolteachers.

French 7's most certainly are not bimbo thank you very much, they make one's writing distinguishable when it has got too intellectual/spikey/long stemmed and arty.
Goodness.

But I wonder if this happens in france. There they're taught to write in a particular way, very distinctive loopy French writing which can always be recognised.

I work with a man who writes like that and uses different colour pens on each page of his lab book - I really dont think you've got anything to worry about with your ds.

All Americans have the same handwriting as well, don't they? Quite loopy