tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post4275679689758426682..comments2024-03-29T08:14:16.520+01:00Comments on From My Mental Library: HandwritingLibrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-3310067936295386222017-03-14T20:55:12.068+01:002017-03-14T20:55:12.068+01:00Oops, sorry, Graham - somehow your comment complet...Oops, sorry, Graham - somehow your comment completely slipped through the mesh - I only found it now!<br />Who knows, I might be the one to decipher your late uncle's diaries :-)Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-42368734810658027852017-02-06T23:59:50.674+01:002017-02-06T23:59:50.674+01:00My handwriting varies from almost copperplate to d...My handwriting varies from almost copperplate to downright illegible (even to me). Your handwriting is at least legible. If you want to see truly illegible writing you should try and read my late uncle's diaries! Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-71216969340967856932017-01-26T07:49:55.903+01:002017-01-26T07:49:55.903+01:00Maybe because you were a teacher and are used to s...Maybe because you were a teacher and are used to some very bad handwriting from your former students you think that my handwriting is not untidy. Most other people agree with me in saying that it is almost illegible!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-22731257491355587042017-01-26T07:49:11.240+01:002017-01-26T07:49:11.240+01:00Most of my diary entries are a mix of German and E...Most of my diary entries are a mix of German and English. Sometimes an English term is much shorter than what it would take to express the same thing in German, and so I choose that for my diary.<br />Also, you simply need to look up my 2016 Yorkshire Holiday posts to know what I was writing in my diary :-)Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-4058335522990502082017-01-26T01:16:02.287+01:002017-01-26T01:16:02.287+01:00You say your handwriting is untidy Meike but I hav...You say your handwriting is untidy Meike but I haven't yet seen any proof of that. For example, your Yorkshire diary handwriting looks pretty neat to me. Unfortunately I can't read German.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-14603914011705400462017-01-23T07:55:52.070+01:002017-01-23T07:55:52.070+01:00I guess you have a point there, Monica.
Like you,...I guess you have a point there, Monica.<br /><br />Like you, I use my blog for looking back, at least until March 2008, when I started! Diary entries can prompt me looking up blog posts from around that time, and of course my blog is important to me in that I am keeping track of what I have been reading.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-17514685070040583702017-01-23T07:53:45.613+01:002017-01-23T07:53:45.613+01:00Must be, Frances :-)
I see you have wrecked yours ...Must be, Frances :-)<br />I see you have wrecked yours the same way as I did mine, only that my high speed note taking did not take place at uni.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-23077235425320773092017-01-23T07:52:58.875+01:002017-01-23T07:52:58.875+01:00When I receive cards or letters from my Yorkshire ...When I receive cards or letters from my Yorkshire family, I often think my sisters-in-law and my niece have very similar handwriting, whereas my mother-in-law and the aunts who are more or less the same generation as her have a different style, but among them, similar again.<br />True, I don't know anybody else whose handwriting changes with their mood; mine only becomes more or less legible depending on with how much care I have been writing, or whether I was in a hurry.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-28307287514427509412017-01-22T21:29:56.526+01:002017-01-22T21:29:56.526+01:00Here's another suggestion: Your handwriting ha...Here's another suggestion: Your handwriting has changed from typically German style to more international :) Said half in jest, but I'm serious as well: Your writing in the first picture is what I associate with typically German handwriting, while your writing in later years is harder to determine like that. (Not that I'm an expert... Just judging by my own limited experience, having had penpals from a few different countries dating back to before the computers...)<br /><br />My pocket diaries always used to be rather neat and full in January and then it always looked like the rest of the year I did nothing... I've finally given them up now and I just jot down appointments and such on a wall calendar in the kitchen. (Not working any more, there aren't that many appointments!) For looking back, I use my blog and fb and my digital photos now (as I usually take the camera with me when I go out for walks etc). DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-55407879111732180062017-01-22T17:43:43.663+01:002017-01-22T17:43:43.663+01:00I think that first example of your writing is very...I think that first example of your writing is very neat. My own was wrecked through very fast note taking at university. Only my family can read it (,that's really odd. Maybe it's a genetic thing...),Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-5771735728599588002017-01-22T16:33:00.537+01:002017-01-22T16:33:00.537+01:00I think it is difficult to judge since we were tau...I think it is difficult to judge since we were taught such a different style of writing, but your handwriting looks quite legible to me. My husband always blamed his bad handwriting on the fact that he began learning the European style and then had to switch to the American. But my son Andy has the same "style". My own handwriting changes somewhat with my mood. That seems rather weird to me.Thickethouse.wordpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187303460677067276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-34782653572976591942017-01-22T12:51:14.374+01:002017-01-22T12:51:14.374+01:00Your handwriting reflects your spontaneous and cre...Your handwriting reflects your spontaneous and creative mind, Kay. Mine simply looks disorderly. I can always read what you write!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-78795158418009684222017-01-22T12:50:21.894+01:002017-01-22T12:50:21.894+01:00My handwriting, neat? It is all over the place! :-...My handwriting, neat? It is all over the place! :-DLibrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-13907755277163074822017-01-22T12:49:47.542+01:002017-01-22T12:49:47.542+01:00Please do such a blog post, too, Jennifer, I'd...Please do such a blog post, too, Jennifer, I'd love to see your handwriting and your journals!<br />My diaries are for my own personal use only, so they do not have to be neat. But I don't like it that writing legibly is so difficult to me, and takes such effort; I wish it came easier to me. Typing is my preferred way of writing, as I can nearly type as fast as I think, and I know it will always be legible!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-1835529246730094192017-01-22T12:47:27.823+01:002017-01-22T12:47:27.823+01:00In elementary school, we had a subject called &quo...In elementary school, we had a subject called "Schönschreiben", literally "beautiful writing". Obviously, what I learned there did not stick with me...!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-61436678740654535602017-01-22T03:11:31.971+01:002017-01-22T03:11:31.971+01:00Uh, you have seen my handwriting so you know I am ...Uh, you have seen my handwriting so you know I am the LAST person who would criticize handwriting! HA!<br />I think yours is neat and tidy, to my eye anyway!Kay G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07228498846814735537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-69143702580328939302017-01-21T20:31:28.483+01:002017-01-21T20:31:28.483+01:00Well, *blush blush* actually to me your handwritin...Well, *blush blush* actually to me your handwriting looks rather neat! you should see mine!!! Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-73161784098198391162017-01-21T16:35:51.293+01:002017-01-21T16:35:51.293+01:00I also love the little doodles of suns and smiley ...I also love the little doodles of suns and smiley faces, I do that kind of thing, too! Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512800812290518552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-34155871671332900972017-01-21T16:34:40.365+01:002017-01-21T16:34:40.365+01:00I love working through my thoughts with ink and pa...I love working through my thoughts with ink and paper, and have kept exactly the kind of personal journals you describe for most of my adult life--in fits and starts. I'm not sure that your own daily notes and musings and lists SHOULD be entirely "neat", surely the effort to make them so would stifle creativity to some extent. Or that's my feeling about it! Oh, and I love January when calendars and planners go on clearance. I love both and always buy several of them. In fact, I should do a blog post like this. I hope you don't mind if I take the idea from you and Yorkshire Pudding! :)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512800812290518552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-83277926541626689002017-01-21T15:45:08.857+01:002017-01-21T15:45:08.857+01:00I like cursive writing and wish mine were better. ...I like cursive writing and wish mine were better. I correspond with an elderly cousin of my husband who has the most beautiful writing, she was educated in convent schools in Spain. I fear cursive writing is a lost art form and most schools here have stopped teaching it, too bad.Mac n' Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05732924562630675589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-91432369649301068422017-01-21T15:12:08.288+01:002017-01-21T15:12:08.288+01:00No you are wrong my dear - I think you have that l...No you are wrong my dear - I think you have that lovely 'European style' handwriting which always looks extremely elegant. Let's face it, today most young people don't even write in cursive, and when/if they do it's often really ugly. My fears are they will stop teaching cursive the schools - it has been suggested over here! I am always told my handwriting is lovely - I agree it was when I was young, and I did enter contests at school which I usually won - now however it's changed somewhat and I do find it harder to write neatly. . . . . . . and straight!<br /><br />Great post - catching up and sending new year wishes. I met lovely new German friends on the cruise, mother and adult son - more on them another time - we are keeping in touch!<br /><br />Hugs- Mary Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915239653283205065noreply@blogger.com