HeatherMarie
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WOW! Your handwriting is beautiful Red Night! I WISH so badly I could learn perfect penmanship like that. Does anyone know how people back then learned it? Or ways I can?
Handwriting
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Red Night
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Thank you!HeatherMarie said:
I do write quite a bit, so that might have something to do with it, but otherwise it just takes practice. I was really not allowed to write in print during my last couple of years of elementary school, so that helped get drilled in to me to only write in cursive. I was lucky enough to have my handwriting evolve over time, I guess. I also examined different scripts and took influence from those based on what stood out to me. Like the Germanic capital "I"s are much more attractive to me than other forms. Most of all just practice, practice, practice if you find it's a little difficult!
And not everyone in the past actually had that nice of handwriting. It's just one of those common misconceptions people have about days gone by. But good luck! And one thing to remember is not only were they people just like us, but they were us, so beautiful script might come more naturally than you think if you just put a bit of thought into it.
argonne1918
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We use to learn cursive writing in school beginning in second grade. We started out drawing circles. The teacher would draw large circles on the chalk board and we would copy. Then when she (Grades K-3 always had female teachers) felt we were ready she would have us start adding "tails" to the circle. The idea with cursive is to write the whole word without lifting your pen or pencil from the paper. Lifting your pen is a waste of time and energy. The purpose of cursive writing is to save time (and therefore money).HeatherMarie said:
Eowyn
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After reading this thread a few times since Red Night posted it four months ago, I have to say I don't understand most of the comments made afterwards, but I don't know if it's because I'm old (37) and that's the only way I know of writing (my handwriting is very similar to Red Night's), or because I'm Spanish and that's the way teachers taught us to write.
You can have more or less elegant handwriting, and I know it depends a lot on your personality too, but as far as I know, many people close to me, from grandparents, to parents, friends... everyone knows or knew how to write in cursive and that's nothing special. We do it less often these times, and that's quite sad, I really miss to write my long stories with just a ballpen and paper, but I still see very far the time when our kids won't learn to write at school due to computers invading everything. I'll really worry if that happens one day (if it hasn't started yet).
I don't know... I'm a bit confused.
You can have more or less elegant handwriting, and I know it depends a lot on your personality too, but as far as I know, many people close to me, from grandparents, to parents, friends... everyone knows or knew how to write in cursive and that's nothing special. We do it less often these times, and that's quite sad, I really miss to write my long stories with just a ballpen and paper, but I still see very far the time when our kids won't learn to write at school due to computers invading everything. I'll really worry if that happens one day (if it hasn't started yet).
I don't know... I'm a bit confused.
BriarRose
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I've been told that in the U.S., cursive is no longer being taught Eowyn. I find that sad, and disturbing, and I hope it isn't true. Our educational system must be continuing to "dumb" everything down, and take every shortcut. My youngest child is 22, and was taught cursive, so this must be a recent development.
Red Night
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.... I actually have to admit that I agree with you to a certain extent and felt somewhat silly not too long after starting this thread.Eowyn said:After reading this thread a few times since Red Night posted it four months ago, I have to say I don't understand most of the comments made afterwards, but I don't know if it's because I'm old (37) and that's the only way I know of writing (my handwriting is very similar to Red Night's), or because I'm Spanish and that's the way teachers taught us to write.
You can have more or less elegant handwriting, and I know it depends a lot on your personality too, but as far as I know, many people close to me, from grandparents, to parents, friends... everyone knows or knew how to write in cursive and that's nothing special. We do it less often these times, and that's quite sad, I really miss to write my long stories with just a ballpen and paper, but I still see very far the time when our kids won't learn to write at school due to computers invading everything. I'll really worry if that happens one day (if it hasn't started yet).
I don't know... I'm a bit confused.
But many people my age, where I'm from, have disgusting handwriting. Many of the guys my age (that I know) have handwriting that looks like it hasn't changed much since their childhood, and the girls seem to have the same ridiculous looking bubble print.
Unfortunately, at the time I posted this, it didn't actually hit me (God, this will make me sound dumb) that... duh!... anybody can be taught to write well. I was just always sort of used to being somewhat an anomaly in school because people were always shocked when they looked down at my paper. I guess I just got a little overzealous. :/
shadowsofmypast
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This is really interesting topic.
My handwriting and printing style is over the place.
Sometimes I don't recognize it.
I do think it's past life related I thought about this for a while.
My handwriting and printing style is over the place.
Sometimes I don't recognize it.
I do think it's past life related I thought about this for a while.
Mama2HRB
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You are correct, many schools have dropped cursive. Thankfully my daughters spent several years in the parochial school system and learned cursive there. My youngest is one of perhaps only 2 in her class that can write and read cursive.
Kinda weird .. they teach Spanish almost like a second language but drop cursive, which really will limit historical research in the far future.
One of my daughter's friends told her the teach wrote each of their names in cursive and told them to copy it and practice writing the name so they have a signature.
Kinda weird .. they teach Spanish almost like a second language but drop cursive, which really will limit historical research in the far future.
One of my daughter's friends told her the teach wrote each of their names in cursive and told them to copy it and practice writing the name so they have a signature.
argonne1918
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There are also many cursive writing instructional videos on YouTube.
Owl
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I know cursive since it' s taught in school here as well, however, I prefer to write in a horrible mix of all types of styles possible.
To not deviate this topic even more and answer the original question "Is your handwriting similar to your past life handwriting?" I guess my answer would be no. Here are some comparison attempts for posterity that I made some time ago.
Attempt to compare actual handwriting with Pl handwriting, I copied the same but in my actual style, it was a few years ago so I don' t remember if I looked at the original or not, I think not, that I used someone' s translation online because I cannot understand what the heck I wrote in the past. (It' s the papers on the right, the paper on the left is something different posted later)
Needless to say, depending on the circumstances, I cannot understand later what the heck I wrote in the present either (this was copied in class):
Past life handwriting:
This is a bunch of German blabbery I wrote to see how my handwriting looked in German.
To not deviate this topic even more and answer the original question "Is your handwriting similar to your past life handwriting?" I guess my answer would be no. Here are some comparison attempts for posterity that I made some time ago.
Attempt to compare actual handwriting with Pl handwriting, I copied the same but in my actual style, it was a few years ago so I don' t remember if I looked at the original or not, I think not, that I used someone' s translation online because I cannot understand what the heck I wrote in the past. (It' s the papers on the right, the paper on the left is something different posted later)
Needless to say, depending on the circumstances, I cannot understand later what the heck I wrote in the present either (this was copied in class):
Past life handwriting:
This is a bunch of German blabbery I wrote to see how my handwriting looked in German.
Jody
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Owl -- I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with your opinion. I think the past life sample you provided has a number of similarities with the last sample you provided, the major difference being the slant. And that could easily be explained if in fact you are left-handed (you are, aren't you ...?) and your past life persona was right-handed.
Jody
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Owl -- I'm no expert, but the last sample you posted shows the slant of the writing as being slightly to the left, which is somewhat rare in right-handed people because schools teach the "proper way of writing" with the slant towards the right. I'm no expert, but from what I understand that's kind of like the body-language equivalent of leaning away from people rather than towards them. Here's a website that talks about handwriting.
Red Night
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My ten year-old nephew loves to play with my fountain pen and it really seems to make him enjoy cursive. He'll sit at my desk for a half-hour writing down names and who knows what else, and that's a pleasant change from watching him play Playstation Live all the time! haha And I really enjoy helping him learn how to hold the pen and instructing him on how to write certain letters.
I feel kids would have a lot better of a time learning cursive if they could use fountain or dip pens; they're more satisfying to use than ballpoints, not to mention a novelty (and what kid doesn't love something different?!).
I feel kids would have a lot better of a time learning cursive if they could use fountain or dip pens; they're more satisfying to use than ballpoints, not to mention a novelty (and what kid doesn't love something different?!).
argonne1918
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Up until about 5th grade I had the old antique school desks that had the hole for the ink well, but the fountain pens were long gone. My dad still had a fountain pen and blotter, but I never saw him use it. Fountain pens could be messy and sometimes they leaked. I think the older people were glad to get rid of them.Red Night said:
BriarRose
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I believe there were questions in this thread about comparing our current handwriting to that of one of our PLs. I actually found a sample yesterday of one of mine - just an unknown person who died tragically. The sample was on his WWI draft card. His writing was well-formed, and feminine. I found a copy of his full name that I had written down when I was doing research. Except for the capital letters, it was almost identical! It would take a graphologist to determine why the caps were so different, but I'm going to do a little research into the significance of that. Otherwise, pretty much a "dead match". :laugh: The capitals being different might indicate that the soul, or maybe the ego, does change to some extent between lives.
Owl
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For people who wants to compare their handwritings in the future with the Pl ones, first compare it with samples from before you saw the Pl handwriting. Then change the slant to the slant you had in your Pl and compare it that way.
You change the slant, you change everything and you can see the differences and similarities clearer. It´s actually pretty amazing and disturbing.
You change the slant, you change everything and you can see the differences and similarities clearer. It´s actually pretty amazing and disturbing.
starrynight
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Though not on handwriting it makes me think I often write when jotting from the back page of the jotter inwards. Or like today the first page to the right with the second to the left.
When I pick up a magazine I always flick from back also. It's often made me wonder about an Asian pl, though I think it could be a longer ago one than I can recall.
When I pick up a magazine I always flick from back also. It's often made me wonder about an Asian pl, though I think it could be a longer ago one than I can recall.
argonne1918
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There are other languages that read right to left. Hebrew, Arabic, Persian/Farsi, etc.starrynight said:
starrynight
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I never thought about these but think they would be more likely. I have vague memories of being a Moorish muslim woman and certainly have more interest in Arabic and Middle Eastern countries.argonne1918 said:
A slant to the left may also mean an strong imprint of his/her past life, unfinished business. I strongly believe we are all one. There is only one soul. We only differ due to the differences of the container. An imprint therefore is a fixation of the past container, your previous body. It is designed that way so we may continue the array of the ever expanding spiral that is the Universe.Jody said: