myrmepropagandist1d ago
Can you write in cursive?
Yes, and often do!
Technically, yes. But I don't.
Only my name, so not really.
Not at all
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Show threadJohn Maxwell1d ago
@futurebird I was successful in concealing the fact that I could read cursive from my parents for almost a year. Much useful intelligence was gained.
Eventually slipped up in front of Mom, but it was useful for a while.
Show threadcognitively accessible math1d ago
@jmax @futurebird I could read upside down and found out a few things that way :P
Show threadJohn Maxwell1d ago
@geonz @futurebird Oh, yes. I have worked as a consultant, and reading upside down is an essential meeting skill. 😙
Show threadmyrmepropagandist

@jmax @geonz

As a tutor and teaching I've learned to write upside down (eg I can write so you can read it when I'm sitting face to face with you. )

I'm a little flattered by how much it freaks people out. But it's not hard. Just imagine your wrist is extra flexible and you are writing right side up.

I can't do mirror writing and that makes me sad... but someday I'll learn.

Mar 26 at 11:35pmWeb
Show threadSusanna the Artist 🌻1d ago
@futurebird It’s not much different than how you learned to write upside down. I taught myself to write backwards with my left hand back in high school. But I can only do it in cursive!
Show threadThe Witchy Bitches1d ago
@superflippy @futurebird I can write and read braille upside down which is necessary for a braille teacher. Also when you write braille with a slate and stylus you are writing it backward because you are literally punching every hole out from behind. I can sign my name in cursive, but if I'm going to write print letters, they are not in cursive and I have to remember how the lines go and often I write them backwards or upside down because I forget which way they point. Also my handwriting looks like that of a particularly hyper six-year-old. I can read raised print such as the numbers on a credit card with my fingertips but writing is harder because I don't do it but once every few years.
Show threadSusanna the Artist 🌻1d ago
@pawpower @futurebird I never thought of braille being backwards when you write with a stylus, but now that you describe it it makes perfect sense. Wild!
Show threadFrank 🛩️🪂⛵🛵🎿🔭1d ago
@superflippy @futurebird Yeah... ok... now to the real thing: can you write with both hands independently at the same time? 😃 I certainly cannot. 🙁
Show threadSusanna the Artist 🌻1d ago
@frank @futurebird Not really independently, but I can write the same thing with both hands at the same time in a mirror image.
Show threadFrank 🛩️🪂⛵🛵🎿🔭1d ago

@superflippy @futurebird Oh, that's great! 😀 I just tried, and I see that this might work, but I am too bad at this. I would need lots of practice. 😵‍💫

I just wonder if "both hands and independent" would work with pretrained text and some rhythm... like playing piano. Ok, pushing keys is not the same as moving a pen around, but still...

Show threadSusanna the Artist 🌻1d ago
@frank @futurebird I bet you could do it with practice.
Show threadcognitively accessible math1d ago
@futurebird @jmax Yes, I learned that too. I *think* I could do mirror writing too. I sort of visualize what it should look like and trace what I "see."
Now, I can't (I don't think :P ) do *cursive* upside down.
Show threadEric Lawton1d ago

@futurebird

My uncle was a printer in the days when that was a person, not a machine.

He couldn't write mirror writing but he could read it fluently, any way up.

@jmax @geonz

Show threadclew1d ago

And then, boustrophedon!

@futurebird @jmax @geonz

Show threadGaëtan Perrault1d ago

@futurebird @jmax @geonz

While I was a teaching assistant in university, I practiced "open arm" writing on the white board. So I wrote all of the math equations as if I were using a pointer, rather than facing the board. So you get to see what I was writing without having to look over my shoulder, because I was facing the class.

That made a lot of students happy, because they could actually see and hear what I was writing at the same time.

But it also tripped some people out, because apparently it was pretty unique.

Show threadjustmichelle1d ago
@futurebird @jmax @geonz I write journals and such in cursive. Notes, lists, and booking cards in all caps printing. I can do mirror writing. But only printing.
Show threadC Silva1d ago
@justmichelle @futurebird @jmax @geonz
I can do mirror writing, but ONLY in cursive! I attribute it to being left handed.
Show threadOwen Maresh1d ago
@futurebird @jmax @geonz
Show threadJohn Maxwell1d ago
@graveolensa @futurebird @geonz 😱
Show threadOwen Maresh20h ago
@futurebird @jmax @geonz
and for what it's worth: if I'm still writing in vaguely latinate script, I'm not quite at operating conditions: but when I am producing what looks like romanesco broccoli/seashell/violin spirals, I'm there...
Show threadArne Dehli Halvorsen1d ago
@futurebird @jmax @geonz a shortcut to mirror writing would be to do it with the other hand?
Show threadJostein Sand Nilsen1d ago
@arne_d_h @futurebird @jmax @geonz yes, I used to be able to do that. never quite got to the next stage, though: to write different things with both hands at the same time.
Show threadder.hans12h ago
@futurebird @jmax @geonz for some of us writing legibly in any direction seems like a super-power
Show threadGuy on the run10h ago

@lufthans @futurebird @jmax @geonz

What's so amazing is that this super-power can seemingly be passed on for generations.