Left or Right

[Heinous]

I am left handed and just recently switched from writing from the side of the paper (not quite overwriting) to underwriting. It's turned out alright, but I need a bit more practice and my letters tend to slant slightly left. The quality of my handwriting (poor to mediocre) hasn't suffered at all though. I've been slanting my paper at about a 30 degree angle and that seems to work best for me.

 

My kindergarten teacher tried to switch me to writing with my right hand until my mom stomped down to the school and tore her a new one. She was a lefty as well and stood up for leftist rights I do however use scissors with my right hand (and can't cut a straight line to save my life) and play soccer right footed.

 

I'm off to work on that slant; hopefully I can at least get it straight up and down with a bit more practice.

 

Jim

[dvorak]

pure right handed, and nothing but, here...

 

Brent

[Artbeast]

I am right handed but my goal for 2008 is to become left handed.

[finalidid]

  Artbeast said:

I am right handed but my goal for 2008 is to become left handed.

 

Good for you. Not enough people take up the mantel! If you search back you'll see that I've been more privileged in my genetics than you, but there's nothing wrong with those who are less fortunate doing their best to overcome the challenges that life gives them.

 

What about your feet? You do know whether you're right- or left-footed, don't you?

 

[Aysedasi]

I'm a lefty, but only for writing. Unlike my sister (who was originally a lefty) I wasn't made to change. I'm surprised to see quite so many sinister types here!

[skybird]

Right for a lot of things, left for others. Either for some.

Pen in right hand. Either foot in soccer. Shave, teeth and eat lefthanded.

Throw right handed. Guitar - left.......

[samuraicat]

Lefty in everything but golf. That I do right handed.

 

You know what they say: Everyone was born right-handed, only the truly gifted overcome it.

 

And yes... my tongue is firmly in cheek. So no need to get your dander up.

[bootyshox]

The way left handers usually write has perplexed me. Especially the way their hand is cocked in such position looks cool.

[georges zaslavsky]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/georges2/signature.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/georges2/writing-1.jpg

fully ambidextrous

[flounders]

I'm left handed but learning to become ambidextrous. My handwriting is fairly close with either hand but my right hand is slower than the left. I'm trying to get my right hand involved with various other things right now and it's doing tasks slower but just as well as my left hand.

[BurkStar]

I'm definitely right handed, but I'm becoming more tolerant of mutant lefties... :ltcapd:

[Albertine]

  James Pickering said:

Check out the links on left-handed handwriting at:

 

http://jp29.org/itbasics.htm

 

I just followed these links...they give some interesting tips on how to hold the paper, but don't give any advice about penmanship. It seems that these days most people teach underwriting to lefties in school (I certainly was - when I tried to write "crabclaw" it was always brought to my attention that it's not a very refined way to write on a page)...but as long as you're teaching underwriting, and lefties may have some hope of writing legibly but we will never write in a beautiful cursive script. Tilting the paper can make a backwards slant look straight, but it doesn't make your writing slant in the opposite direction, like cursive script requires.

 

Have any lefties on this forum figured out how to improve their penmanship beyond just tilting the paper and hoping things look ok?

[georges zaslavsky]

  Albertine said:

I just followed these links...they give some interesting tips on how to hold the paper, but don't give any advice about penmanship. It seems that these days most people teach underwriting to lefties in school (I certainly was - when I tried to write "crabclaw" it was always brought to my attention that it's not a very refined way to write on a page)...but as long as you're teaching underwriting, and lefties may have some hope of writing legibly but we will never write in a beautiful cursive script. Tilting the paper can make a backwards slant look straight, but it doesn't make your writing slant in the opposite direction, like cursive script requires.

 

Have any lefties on this forum figured out how to improve their penmanship beyond just tilting the paper and hoping things look ok?

I made a thread a while ago https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=47450. I am a right handed which can also write as well as with my left hand so ambidextrous. If you want to improve your opinion then start to write some sentences quick and in legible manner, also hold the pen normally, the claw and the other methods of holding the pens are to avoid. Find also a position in which you find yourself comfortable to write. I can write cursive italic despite I am not a natural born lefty. I use often medium and fine stock nibs. I can also use my older fountainpens with having the need to have their nib regrounded.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Being left-handed makes writing more difficult---especially with a fountain pen.

[Albertine]

  georges zaslavsky said:

  Albertine said:

I just followed these links...they give some interesting tips on how to hold the paper, but don't give any advice about penmanship. It seems that these days most people teach underwriting to lefties in school (I certainly was - when I tried to write "crabclaw" it was always brought to my attention that it's not a very refined way to write on a page)...but as long as you're teaching underwriting, and lefties may have some hope of writing legibly but we will never write in a beautiful cursive script. Tilting the paper can make a backwards slant look straight, but it doesn't make your writing slant in the opposite direction, like cursive script requires.

 

Have any lefties on this forum figured out how to improve their penmanship beyond just tilting the paper and hoping things look ok?

I made a thread a while ago https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=47450. I am a right handed which can also write as well as with my left hand so ambidextrous. If you want to improve your opinion then start to write some sentences quick and in legible manner, also hold the pen normally, the claw and the other methods of holding the pens are to avoid. Find also a position in which you find yourself comfortable to write. I can write cursive italic despite I am not a natural born lefty. I use often medium and fine stock nibs. I can also use my older fountainpens with having the need to have their nib regrounded.

 

Actually, your thread just repeated mostly the same advice that I got from all the other sites - about positioning the hand or tilting the paper, or getting the angle of the pen right. But, I was trying to practice a cursive script the other day and no matter how properly I tilt the paper or position my body or finger the pen, smooth cursive letters that I make still tilt to the left, and then I run into letters like a small S that just cannot be made to tilt to the left, and the whole thing ends up screwy.

 

I want to know if someone has actually developed a script that works with a left handed stroke. Not one that forces a left handed person to try to do what comes naturally to a right handed person.

 

[Eltea]

I'm left handed.

It's kind of mystery, because nobody in my family is lefty (except my younger sister).

[Eltea]

  Sailor Kenshin said:

Being left-handed makes writing more difficult---especially with a fountain pen.

 

I've no problem with FP. When I was at first class, I had my very first fountain pen (Jolly).

Rather, I have problems with italics and italics pens. I know how it would look like, but I can do that because of my holding pen.

[jennieg]

It used to be that 10% of the population was considered lefty but I think that this percentage is increasing. For instance, at my last job, I sat with a bunch of Customer Tech Engineers. There were 8 of us and half were lefties (which made sitting arrangements very interesting).

 

Jennie (righthand)

[mschaffer]

  jennieg said:

It used to be that 10% of the population was considered lefty but I think that this percentage is increasing. For instance, at my last job, I sat with a bunch of Customer Tech Engineers. There were 8 of us and half were lefties (which made sitting arrangements very interesting).

 

Jennie (righthand)

 

Maybe it's just that you are in a position to work with more left-handers.

 

Most of the left-handers I know are chemists, physicists, or engineers. I, too, am left-handed---as well being a chemical engineer.

 

Of course, it may be the chemical fumes. :hmm1: (Many of the these people have a terrible sense of smell from chronic exposure to various things.)

[leprechaun]

  Quote

...the data were “adjusted for a number of potentially confounding factors” which are neither detailed nor explained in the reporting...

Fudge-factors without any explanation!

 

How did this get published?

Is this peer-reviewed?