• Captain Aggravated
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      32 days ago

      My handwriting is anal sauce but at least at one point I wasn’t terrible at calligraphy. Those two things are not related skills at all.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 days ago

        I enjoy hand brushed lettering, but I’ve never done calligraphy. Seems to be quite different than just having nice legible handwriting, its a much more structural process, more like drafting than writing

        • Captain Aggravated
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          22 days ago

          Somewhere in that region, yes. I find it much more of a process of drawing than writing, each individual letter gets specific attention. Maybe if you’ve done it enough you start picking up speed and start thinking about whole words.

    • @LaunchesKayaks
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      22 days ago

      I wrote almost exclusively in cursive and it looks just as bad as my non-curskve writing (REALLY bad). Cursive is just so much faster and smother. Don’t gotta lift the pen for each letter.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        It took a while to relearn cursive as an adult but it def feels nice and flowy, and switching back to printing feels slower for sure

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      22 days ago

      Plus it saves a lot of time when you’re writing things out by hand, like birthday card wishes, or a diary.

      • @Takumidesh
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        22 days ago

        And it wastes a lot of time when the recipient can’t read a god damned thing written down.