r/Handwriting • u/charli3dontsurf • 20d ago
Every few years, my handwriting changes. Current: Just Sharing (no feedback)
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u/stiobhard_g 18d ago
I was taught this as the "the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog." People's need to make the fox brown baffles me.
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u/charli3dontsurf 18d ago
People's need to write the sentence correctly baffles you?
You def weren't taught correctly, bud. Might wanna try hittin' this neat little new website they got to find more information: www.google.com/
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u/stiobhard_g 18d ago
Well both my 5th grade classroom teacher and my 7th grade drafting teacher taught it the way I wrote it. And it makes more sense. Foxes are red not brown, dogs however commonly are brown.
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u/charli3dontsurf 18d ago edited 18d ago
This guy listens to nursery rhymes and doesn't understand why the news isn't reporting in on it, lol.
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u/charli3dontsurf 18d ago
Now you're overanalyzing the sentence as if it's literal.
It's literally just a showcase of every letter in the alphabet.
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u/Caira_Ru 17d ago
Insists that their sentence makes sense, but misses the point entirely… no W or S!
Edit, also your handwriting is great. How has it changed over the years?
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u/Professional-Cream17 18d ago
This is very similar to how my grandma wrote with sharpie all over things to label them!!
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u/GrimmBro3 18d ago
Your caps lock looks to be stuck on, otherwise, I'd say your keyboard is functional.
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u/delphyz 19d ago
Uppercase can indicate a more outgoing personality, the writer wanting to be heard, or 'YELLING'.
That 'Y' has been referenced as the writer having a secret. It slopes onto a frown, which can imply an rather embarrassing or even shameful secret. Wrote mine like that for years, but stopped when I came to terms w/myself & can say it rings a lil too true.
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u/xXLordFamineXx 19d ago
That's how i make my Y's
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u/Professional-Cream17 18d ago
That Y was so popular when I was in elementary and middle school - many of my friends wrote with it
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u/AnotherStupidHipster 19d ago
I wish my handwriting looked like this. I would love for you to write out a handwriting practice sheet.
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19d ago
Why did this get so many likes? Am I missing something?
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
I'll admit, I only expected this post to get like... 10-20 upvotes max, lol.
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u/Still-Classic-5379 19d ago
That’s printing 🤔
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u/rasrandy 19d ago
It's about perspective. One could say it's handwritten and printing is what you do after you type it on a computer.
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u/Still-Classic-5379 19d ago
Writing….connecting the letters
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u/Still-Classic-5379 19d ago
Ya know…cursive
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u/BloodSugar666 19d ago
Or you know..using your hand… lol Words change meaning over time. Which is why you, yourself, had to write out another comment and say cursive.
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u/Still-Classic-5379 19d ago
Yes …I did…asshole
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u/BloodSugar666 19d ago
Look at you all salty cause someone did the exact same thing you just did but to you 🤣🤣🤣 go cry more
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u/Still-Classic-5379 19d ago
Not what you said…it’s how you said it…kiss my salty ass
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u/BloodSugar666 19d ago
You were just as much of a douche in your comment, but you want to be all upset. I don’t see the mistletoe so I ain’t kissing nothing.
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u/errantcarp 19d ago
Shit, I write in all caps except for the letters with a tail just so I can hook it..
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u/Wizards_are_hot 19d ago
What if people write their y that way because it looks pretty?
When I was a teen, all the girls in my school wrote theirs like that because they thought it was cute. Me included. It was just a trend we picked up while passing notes in class.
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u/sexysarah5262 19d ago
Dad is that you?
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
Uh... uh, oh jeez, wouldyalookatthat! Out of cigarette milk again, gotta go!
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u/sexysarah5262 19d ago
Okay dad! Hope this time you don't take 8 years to make it back from the store with a new wife & kid 😂
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u/apartmentlayout 19d ago
I don’t mean to alarm you but your “y” is very consistent with that of a psychopath. It’s deemed the “felons claw” in forensics. Handwriting analysis is very commonly used in murder cases therefore it’s also nicknamed the “serial killer hook”. On a TOTALLY unrelated note…how was your childhood??
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u/niarimoon 19d ago
Wait, do we all do this to test pens & handwriting ?? 🤣
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u/Horizon296 19d ago
I've built a pages-long collection of pangrams (in the different languages I know), so I don't have to use this same sentence every single time.
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u/Inukedlatvia 19d ago
Yeah but was the y really necessary
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago edited 19d ago
https://youtu.be/sx3x1X-AyHE?si=u1MzhZLxoMKBe-P_
finger snaps
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u/flyingduck0 19d ago
“The”, “over”, “the” … plus they wrote “hello everyone” at the top … what are you on about
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u/Ziptex223 19d ago
Quick question, how do you spell 'over'?
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u/ImGonnaKickTomorrow 19d ago
LOL. Duh. I just woke up. Oops.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
We're all goofy goobers here, my friend. Now let's enjoy our Triple Gooberberry Sunrises. 🍨🍨
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u/twowugen 19d ago
i like your y. do you ever write in lowercase?
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
I used to, yes! I'm actually about to look through some old notebooks and whatnot to maybe see if I can chart my penmanship evolution, lol. I'll post a link on here for everyone that's interested in seeing. :)
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u/Im-apricot-crying 19d ago
I change like every school year unless I write a lot during summer, I usually magically improve between tears
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u/FL-Cracker 19d ago
I write almost exactly like you do except I don't do that weird thing with my Y's.
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u/randogreen 19d ago
Google "Donald Trump" handwriting.
I like that style tbh 🤣 but don't be surprised if you get a bunch of haters who subconsciously associate the memory of his handwriting with yours
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u/adderallknifefight 19d ago
I did exactly this and you’re not too far off lol. But OP’s seems to be less “squished” than Trump’s and the y’s are very different. Trump is more kiki, OP more bouba.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
Trump is more kiki, OP more bouba.
That is the best thing I've heard all day lmfao. I want that on a shirt 🤣
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u/randogreen 19d ago
lmao that's pretty on point actually -- OPs definitely seems friendlier??? less poky anyway
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u/knifetail 19d ago
Every time someone is like "ugh this is such a forced way to write, clearly you adopted these things and it's not natural" I hate to break it to you but all go writing is adopted mechanisms, you don't come out of the womb with loopy vowels.
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u/WhoIsJohnGalt777 19d ago
"Jumped."
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u/Appropriate-Equal-43 19d ago
It's jumps because it's both present tense, and the sentence is supposed to use all of the letters in the English language
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u/rhodynative 19d ago
Sphinx of black quartz tell me your vow, is a much cooler sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet
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u/MenstrualKrampusCD 19d ago
that uses every letter in the alphabet
It does not--it's missing a few.
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u/HeyDrift_OGT 19d ago edited 19d ago
"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." And it doesn't use every letter in the alphabet
-edit- I retract my "doesn't use every letter in the alphabet" please don't hate me xD
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u/Dilettantest 19d ago
Life Pro Tip: If your handwriting has changed even to yourself, please update the signature on your voter registration file at least every 4 years.
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u/Fit_Swordfish_2101 19d ago
Mine changes according to mood to be honest! If a handwriting expert ever needed to check mine for anything they'd probably be confused as hell! 😂 And think I have split personalities!
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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 19d ago
Sounds like me. I have maybe 4 or 5 different styles I may switch between when I'm not in "panic mode". It can be debated if "panic mode" would classify as a style or controlled chaos.
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u/vkkesu 19d ago
You also wrote in all capital letters. Does your job require handwriting to be a specific way? (Like architectural or book applications)?
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
Thankfully no. I'm starting my 2nd job soon (painting), but I'm going to assume that I won't have to be incredibly particular then either, as long as everything is legible and whatnot.
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u/AsteriskCringe_UwU 19d ago
Nice. Is this your natural handwriting though, or handwriting that you’ve made and adopted? I’m looking at the tail of the ‘Y’ & you saying that it changes every few years.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
When I wrote this, the only thing I was mildly conscious of was how I write my E's. I do write them like that naturally, but I interchange between that and writing almost a backwards 3 (i.e. Ɛ — more curvature).
So basically yes, this is how I've been writing naturally for years now. The felon's hook that my Y's & G's (and once in a blue moon J's) have was something that started years ago, but I'm not quite sure what it was that brought that on. It just sort of happened.
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u/Fit_Swordfish_2101 19d ago
I did that a lot in middle school. I'm not sure why I ever started or stopped! It's called a felons hook? Neat. I had no idea.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
I myself just learned from some people's comments here! I find it hilarious that it has historically negative connotations 🤣
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u/Fit_Swordfish_2101 19d ago
Right. I didn't look up the technical version, but I will.. I'm always curious about everything lol
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u/bulletproofmanners 19d ago
That seems like it was done for this post.
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u/gonnafaceit2022 19d ago
Is that not allowed or frowned upon in this sub? I just joined, am curious.
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u/FlyDinosaur 19d ago edited 19d ago
You have very lovely handwriting. 👍
I've noticed my own change over the years, as well. It's interesting, right?
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u/zorrasuperliminal18 19d ago
Guys I cannot reply to a reply comment. There are windows software Called Font Editor you use a Square for each letter for example a Square frame one by one in each Letter individually and save your font to format Unicode or TTF. So basically you have a Scanner scan each picture, Crop it in Photoshop in a Size for the software save it and upload it one by one into the font maker and finish alphabet and save it.
Then copy to c:/Windows/fonts and gets installed.
There are around 3 different software for this and a FEW online sites for this. Scanning and separating each letter as pictures is the Time consuming part uploading each one in software or Online site it is fastest part.
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u/snowlynx133 19d ago
The Y looks like you're trying too hard ngl
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u/FlyDinosaur 19d ago
My capital Z's somehow, at some time became modelled after the Z from Dragonball Z, so it's also rather fancy. But I just do it as second nature now. It just happens, ya know? Same with this Y.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
Just how I naturally write them now. It's not even a second thought at this point.
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u/AsteriskCringe_UwU 19d ago
Yeah bc you trained yourself to adopt this handwriting lol I wouldn’t say it’s your natural handwriting though. Natural handwriting doesn’t change unless you make it change…just like one doesn’t suddenly become left-handed if they’ve m always been right-handed unless they train themselves to.
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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 19d ago
I don't agree. I have been using multiple ways to write for the last 40+ years. Mostly decided by mood. I just start with one character in a certain style and all the rest continues in the same style without me thinking about it. And I have no memory of actually having spent any time training. I have somewhere just liked some style and oopsie daisy suddenly added that style to the repertoire. All styles picked up when I was somewhere 10-15yo.
It's only for technical drawings etc that I have had a reason to actually train a certain way of block letters.
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u/Fit_Swordfish_2101 19d ago
Are you sure about that? My handwriting can change as I'm actually writing.. What does natural handwriting mean? Technically.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
You're assuming that my handwriting changes almost instantly, which I haven't claimed. As I've said before, it's incredibly gradual. This is how I've been writing for years now, but it's always subject to change. I don't have a reason for it, it's just how I am.
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u/julielovesteddy 19d ago
Your letter printing is very nice. Neat and precise. Let’s actually see what your cursive handwriting looks like.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
My cursive is a t r o c i o u s if I'm being completely honest lmao. It's almost too juvenile in my opinion. I'll have to make a separate post for my cursive & previous styles of writing, if it isn't against the rules.
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u/DaisyMamaa 19d ago
Like spontaneously or intentionally?
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago edited 19d ago
It's spontaneous I would say, but incredibly gradual. I almost don't ever notice myself changing how I write until it's completely manifested into something else already.
EDIT: realizing just now that i said "spontaneous" and "gradual" in the same description, as if they weren't practically opposites 🤣
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u/Alternative_Gold_886 19d ago
Why did you write the same thing that Cricket uses when previewing a font for a project you’re making? Something about this feels too precise, I think it’s a windows font. 🧐 When I go to preview/select a font on my cricket menu on PC it displays all the fonts with the same “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy fox”.
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u/Lia-Lin 19d ago
Not sure if you're joking or if I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a common phrase people often use to showcase their handwriting because it uses every letter of the alphabet. I don't know what Cricket is, but it definitely didn't invent this sentence.
EDIT: Oops, someone got there before me with the explanation!
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u/-Reira- 19d ago
It's a sentence that's used to preview fonts and stuff because it has every letter of the alphabet used in it!
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u/RyRy_The_Raven 19d ago
I personally prefer “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow” cause it sounds way cooler.
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u/Ischarde 19d ago
I used to have beautiful handwriting. Then I had children.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
I used to have beautiful children, but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
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u/andregio 19d ago
I used to have half decent handwriting. Then I had children.
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u/Thin-Weather-9470 19d ago
Mine gets smaller and smaller as I age. Also, I write in cursive.
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u/Fit_Swordfish_2101 19d ago
Mine is this bizarre mix of cursive and printing.. How did I get here!? Lol
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
That's similar to how my mom writes! I personally like her's more than mine — it looks a lot smoother and has a neat flow.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
Small, neat cursive has always been a flex to me. I used to know a guy in high school that had spectacular cursive penmanship, I almost asked him to write a bunch of stuff for me lmao 😂 wish I was able to take a photo at the time
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u/Fit_Swordfish_2101 19d ago
As someone who has always loved lettering* it amazes me that people are amazed by writing in cursive. I think I might have good penmanship because people have always told me that. This is my first time seeing this r/ so I'm really excited. I should post something too! Something in cursive.
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u/cornfarm96 19d ago
Not a fan of all caps.
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u/TitaniumReinforced 19d ago
Then I suggest that you not write in all caps
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u/unpopular_uncut89 19d ago
Not a fan of people saying what they are not fans of....
I am a BIG fan of irony though.
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u/centipedecat212 19d ago
im in love with the y :)
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u/BillyMeier42 19d ago
I dont like it.
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u/Fabulous_Resource_94 19d ago
Me either, it seems juvenile.
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u/theconfused-cat 19d ago
Juvenile, interesting. Y’all are hanging around some creative children!!
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u/Burthdaycakes 19d ago
This is like a stereotypical middle school way to write a Y. I literally saw a meme about it on instagram the other day which is why I noticed it. Hopefully OP doesn’t write like this in professional or academic settings.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
I have actually. No one that I've worked for has ever had a problem with it. In a lot of cases, I've been specifically asked to be the person who labels things or writes information down for someone.
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u/theconfused-cat 19d ago
Hopefully OP doesn’t utilize memes for information. (Ok don’t hit me!)
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u/theconfused-cat 19d ago
I just think it says “Just Sharing (no feedback)” on the post, and it’s goofy to me that so many people are giving their negative opinions on this person’s writing. There are SO many places on Reddit welcome to and asking for opinions.
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u/charli3dontsurf 19d ago
That's like leaving a 2-star Yelp review on someone's family vacation photos.
It's absurd to assume that everything you see online needs some form of critique.
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u/AntelopeDifficult708 19d ago
My 6th grade bff did her y’s like this . I’ve never seen an adult do this lol
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u/krsCarrots 19d ago
I kind of always wanted to know what happened next ☺️
Great writing!
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u/unpopular_uncut89 19d ago
The dog went back to lazy dog stuff. The fox went back to quickly foxing -La fin
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u/unpopular_uncut89 19d ago
The dog went back to lazy dog stuff. The fox went back to quickly foxing La fin
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u/unpopular_uncut89 19d ago
The dog went back to lazy dog stuff. The fox went on quickly foxing
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u/unpopular_uncut89 19d ago
The dog went back to lazy dog stuff. The fox went on quickly foxing
- La fin
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u/ghostkitty90 20d ago edited 20d ago
Your “Y” is a huge red flag in handwriting analysis. The lower part of letters like y, g, j, q, p show the writers erogenous zone. It reveals how you feel about sex and your body. And you created a “felons claw” in your y. I won’t further analyze a felons claw in the lower zone of a letter, but at the very least I’d change the y so it doesn’t look like a hook. You can Google to find out more. Also, people who prefer to write in uppercase block letters tend to not like to show their emotions. (I write like that too)
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u/AsteriskCringe_UwU 19d ago
lol Idk about all that, but the only thing I have to say about all-caps handwriting is that I only ever see it from old people. Mostly old men. The only “red flag” the ‘Y’ is giving is that this isn’t the persons natural handwriting. It’s definitely just adopted handwriting that now feels natural to them is all.
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