What Handwriting Did You Learn In School?

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I was homeschooled, so while everyone else was learning D'Nealian, I gave up on it in disgust. My handwriting was very sloppy, and I never got the hang of a couple capital letters. My mom bought me Write Now! and italic became a good utilitarian and fast hand for school.

[Belles-lettres]

Dolganoff: The ARRL back in the sixties promoted ham radio and *all* of it was Morse code rather than voice back then. You had to be able to write really quickly to take Morse code! They developed a highly efficient,minimum stroke, minimum lift alphabet and published it in one of their booklets. A little web cruising helped stimulate the brain cells and this might be the correct publication: Learning the Radiotelegraph Code; about the 10th or 11th edition. It was all caps and highly legible.

[Dolganoff]

cool

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[Sonnet]

My nephew starts pre-K this week and apparently, they'll do something involving Handwriting Without Tears.

 

This should be interesting.

 

 

[mizcutiepielivzi]

ERRRRRRR! I had to learn this UGLY, HORRIBLE thing in London, 1998:

but later on, when I was thirteen, my r=writing became this, literally: So that was the reason why everyone wanted to peer-mark my work... it was...unusual, thats all

[mdove]

I do not know the name other than Benedictine nuns with rulers. Learned with an Esterbrook fountain pen and real ink. We were not allowed to use Ball Points. Heck they really had not reached any semblance of popularity.

[desdedez]

This is the style I learned.

 

I remember my first day of school when I found over my desk a folded white card. On the side facing me, my full name written in dark blue ink with the script style. On the side facing the teacher, again my full name written in a vivid red ink with the print style. I still have it.

 

By the end of elementary school I switched to a slanted script style trying to copy the handwriting of my mother and uncle.

[guilhermejf]

Same script desdedez showed above. I think that picture can be Brazilian, as it is written in Portuguese.

But I learned only the one on the left. The one on the right I learned as some kind of technical script.

I've always thought that Brazilian cursive script is really terrible and we should have learnt something more beautiful, like Palmer after some time.

[xxloverxx]

Not sure what I was taught in school, if at all. If they did, they never put enough emphasis on it, 'cause none of us have similar handwriting now (you wouldn't even be able to tell that we went to the same primary school).

[Pjay]

The attached image shows a copy book used in Queensland schools in the 60s. Our desks had ink wells, and we used steel nibs. Interesting to see the way that the teaching of handwriting was used for teaching all sorts of values and norms. Also interesting to see the change in environmental thinking - people now go to Tangalooma to WATCH whales rather than to hunt them!

[dgturner]

I learned handwriting in Minnesota, in the mid to late 70's. I don't remember it being called by a particular name, but I remember the examples being around the classroom as a border. It was very close to Z-B, but maybe not "Simplified" as I remember it having more ornate capitals, and the capital Q was written more like the numeral 2.

 

I learned handrwiting at a catholic school in Kentucky in the mid to late 80's, and I think I learned the same style as you did - very close to the Z-B, but slightly more fussy. I remember that ridiculous Q.

 

Like you I learned Z-B in the mid to late 1970s (into the 80s -- I graduated in 1986), but not the simplified Z-B. A little bit of research shows that it was Zaner-Bloser traditional. As I am left handed, it was difficult. About 2 years ago I picked up "Write Now!" by Getty & Dubay. Consistent practice has much improved my handwriting. I will admit to adding elements of Gunnlaugar Briem's methods of italic writing.

[georges zaslavsky]

cursive and italic cursive

[Nimmireth]

The attached image shows a copy book used in Queensland schools in the 60s. Our desks had ink wells, and we used steel nibs. Interesting to see the way that the teaching of handwriting was used for teaching all sorts of values and norms. Also interesting to see the change in environmental thinking - people now go to Tangalooma to WATCH whales rather than to hunt them!

 

This is quite a nice hand, IMO. Do you have any other sheets from the copybook? The entire alphabet perhaps?

[htom]

I'm told I was first taught Simple Spencer, in the early 1950's in Montana, and then Palmer, and then something else. My cursive has always been a mess. Then I started learning lettering for drafting, which didn't help my cursive at all, but did have better instruction. Now I'm trying to return to Spencerian, although not with the seven x high lines.

[Warren G Wonka]

Interesting... Although I was taught Zaner-Bloser in the 1960's, my handwriting seems to have morphed over the years to closely resemble your SO method.

 

Is anyone else seeing that their adult handwriting has shifted to become a style other than what you learned as a child?

 

Definitely, unless I make and effort to do so, I can walk away from say- my lab notes for a few minutes, come back, and my handwriting will look quite different! Hm, perhaps it is more correct to say that I don't seem to have a very defined style of handwriting.

[Warren G Wonka]

It appears I was taught ZB in school starting in the 50's. It happens that in high school I brought a quill back from the golf course that I had found, and my grandfather showed me how to cut a pen point.

 

Later, I was fairly disgusted by my handwriting, and just for fun, I brought a quill and a bottle of ink to work (as a salesclerk). Between the blots, it looked a lot better to me.

 

I bought an Esterbrook with a flat point, and got a book on calligraphy out from the library. I now write a somewhat flowing Chancery Cursive. Less flowing when I'm trying to make it calligraphic.

 

I now have a pearl and black Parker Duofold Centennial with an italic nib, using blue-black Quink. I bought it last year, when I finally had the coins to upgrade from a Scheaffer Calligraphy set, as a post-mortem Christmas present from my mother. It doesn't leave the house.

 

I just bought a Lamy Safari Calligraphy 1.5 today with Noodler's bulletproof black ink to carry.

[mark e]

Another item learned from FPN. I didn't know of different styles. I guess the style I learned in the mid '60s was D'nealian on account of the capital Q looking more like a 2.

 

right---that's how i I-D'ed it-- the 2 Q---a hideous script if ever there was

 

i was taught in 2nd grade, 1963---and had completely abandoned it by 7th grade, i just do not like the look of it, and it's a slow way to write, too---although my handwriting (printing, actually) is every bit as heinous as the d'nealian script, but it's mine, sooo...

[Sue Smith]

The attached image shows a copy book used in Queensland schools in the 60s. Our desks had ink wells, and we used steel nibs. Interesting to see the way that the teaching of handwriting was used for teaching all sorts of values and norms. Also interesting to see the change in environmental thinking - people now go to Tangalooma to WATCH whales rather than to hunt them!

I too learnt with Qld copy books in the mid 60's so ink wells were gone by that stage. I've been searching for a copy of the Qld copy book for a while now for my 12yo daughter , couldn't find one anywhere until I stumbled across the forum. Would there be any chance of scanning the book and sending me a copy.

 

Thanks

 

Sue

[tdzb36]

I first learned handwriting in china 2years before，at that time I bought one book about handwriting ，I began practice handwriting，later I found the iampeth website .I kown the handwriting which I frist practie is not right,so today I use materials from IAMPETH to write handwriting!

 

[Bern1]

I learned to write in California, but there was no great emphasis on it. When I was thirteen, I moved to eastern France and attended a school where you wrote with a dip pen and there were inkwells at your desk. Now that was quite a change. We used writing tools like these pictured here:

 

I can still do it but I could use some practice!

 

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