I can read... but I no longer know how to write! Can you still write a letter? - GoFuckYourself.com

Pornwolf · 08-13-2007, 01:43 PM

Thanks to the last 10 years of heavy computer use, minus any real pen and paper use in that time, my handwriting is completely illegible. I just plain can't write. You can't even understand my signature.

But, I'm not alone. Billionaire Mark Cuban is having the same issue:

Quote:

Originally Posted by From his blog

I Forgot How to Write !

Aug 11th 2007 10:29AM

I was sitting in a meeting the other day and decided I needed to take some notes . My memory isn't the worlds best, so if I think there is something worth memorializing, I will take notes.

Typically I will just use my PDA or Laptop . I can touch type pretty fast. I can thumb type on my Sidekick almost as fast as I type using all 10.. Then when Im done, I email the notes to myself and I have a permanent, searchable record of the meeting. I've been doing this for so long, I can pretty much type as fast as I think

This particular meeting for some reason I couldnt go the digital route so I can had to go 1900s and actually handwrite my notes.

What a disaster. I couldn't write.

I literally couldn't take notes fast enough because as I wrote, I realized I couldn't read my own writing. Not only could I not read my own writing, when I tried to slow down so that everything would be legible, I realized that actually writing each letter as part of a complete word was actually difficult

I had forgotten how to write. Sure i could fight it out by going slowly. Very slowly. But any skills I had that used to enable me to quickly write what I was hearing or what my thoughts were, had left me.

Am I alone ? Should I start a self help group ? Should I take a class with 5 year olds to relearn ???

Is writing with a pen on a pad of paper not like riding a bike ??

Can you still write well?

Calico Jack · 08-13-2007, 01:45 PM

I know the feeling, my handwriting has turned to shit. I scribble notes to myself all day long on a pad next to my keyboard, and when I look back at them I often think to myself...'What the fuck does that mean?'

MaDalton · 08-13-2007, 01:46 PM

people were already complaining before - and it got worse and worse. i still can write - but i'm not sure if anyone can read it

Wizzo · 08-13-2007, 01:47 PM

I had to go register my daughter at a new school a few weeks ago and I couldn't believe how hard it was to actually write with a pen...

baddog · 08-13-2007, 01:48 PM

My handwriting has always sucked, but I can usually read it.

jonesonyou · 08-13-2007, 01:49 PM

thats what microsoft word is for.

Pornwolf · 08-13-2007, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Calico Jack

I know the feeling, my handwriting has turned to shit. I scribble notes to myself all day long on a pad next to my keyboard, and when I look back at them I often think to myself...'What the fuck does that mean?'

Hahaha, I do the same thing. I have been thinking about keeping acpaper notepad To-Do list intead of a computer one. Does it help more on paper?

carol.prime · 08-13-2007, 02:09 PM

of course..i often write in hand specially when im teaching my younger sister to her assignment..

HouseHead · 08-13-2007, 02:13 PM

hell yea I can write still.. even better with krylons!

rvincent · 08-13-2007, 02:13 PM

I have the same problem. These days the only times I use a pen is either to fill a check or to strike items out my (printed) shopping lists..

Dollarmansteve · 08-13-2007, 02:16 PM

me rite good.

Peaches · 08-13-2007, 02:19 PM

It's gotten to the point where I can't even read my grocery lists

I look back when I was in HS and such and I had really good handwriting. No more. It's a mess. And I swear after just a few sentences MY HAND HURTS!!

Intricate · 08-13-2007, 02:22 PM

my handwriting has always been illegible... I just can't be bothered to write anything down anymore... short of filling out forms, I never handwrite anything.

Clark Miller · 08-13-2007, 02:27 PM

I still write in analog quite a bit. I enjoy it.

SykkBoy · 08-13-2007, 02:50 PM

I may as well start learning to write with my toes...

Pornwolf · 08-13-2007, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve

me rite good.

Is this the Bizarro Steve talking?

Pornwolf · 08-13-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Wizzo

I had to go register my daughter at a new school a few weeks ago and I couldn't believe how hard it was to actually write with a pen...

I bet some of those youngin's could out write us all day long!

D · 08-13-2007, 03:43 PM

Yeah... but I'm sure a lot of that has to do with my continuing education... can't print out in blue books.

Madame0120 · 08-13-2007, 03:48 PM

I just wrote a note to my Father .. I sure hope someone over there reads chicken scratch. I can't hardly write out a check anymore.

dozey · 08-13-2007, 04:47 PM

I've noticed the same problem when filling out western union forms (the only paper bound transcription I encounter in day to day life)

Write the amount you want to send in words:

two hundred an 35... FUCK, how do you write a sequence of numbers as words again?

Not only that, the alphabetic... scribbles are sometimes so far from legibility that tracing over is required. It only makes things worse.

dozey · 08-13-2007, 04:50 PM

Peaches · 08-13-2007, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dozey

I've noticed the same problem when filling out western union forms (the only paper bound transcription I encounter in day to day life)

Write the amount you want to send in words:

two hundred an 35... FUCK, how do you write a sequence of numbers as words again?

Not only that, the alphabetic... scribbles are sometimes so far from legibility that tracing over is required. It only makes things worse.

I wrote a check last week for $7924.73. I swear I looked like a moron just trying to get it all to fit on that tiny little line

phypon · 08-13-2007, 05:08 PM

This thread makes me feel a whole lot better knowing that I'm not alone in the loss of my writing abilities. As some have stated, I had terrible hand writing before. Now, I feel like I have a problem whenever I try to write shit.

Case in point, the other night (and granted, I had a few drinks in me) I was writing a phone number down on a piece of paper. I couldn't do it, I had to have a friend write the friggin' thing down for me.

Anyway, glad I'm not alone, but I feel the rest of the peeps in the same boat.

TampaToker · 08-13-2007, 05:10 PM

This thread gave me a chuckle. Nice to see im not the only one with this problem.

Pornwolf · 08-13-2007, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Peaches

I wrote a check last week for $7924.73. I swear I looked like a moron just trying to get it all to fit on that tiny little line

I have been tormented by check writing for the past 7 years. I know the feeling.

Peaches · 08-13-2007, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Pornwolf

I have been tormented by check writing for the past 7 years. I know the feeling.

I've been spoiled - usually the checks I write are for round amounts - to the dog sitter, cash, gifts - but this one just totally made me an idiot. And I even started out writing really small

Aquarius · 08-13-2007, 05:46 PM

Yeah, I know the feeling, my signature has officially gone to shit.

polish_aristocrat · 08-14-2007, 01:05 AM

good observation heh

Semi-Retired-Dave · 08-14-2007, 01:07 AM

Same here.
My writing has always been bad but for the last 12 years on my computer, It has got so bad. I can't even read my own writing.

SomeCreep · 08-14-2007, 01:22 AM

I can still read and write fine. However, my calculus is slipping.

beemk · 08-14-2007, 01:30 AM

mine is horrid, it used to be bad but readable. its not even readable unless i write super slow. my signature is even worse from depositing 10-20 checks at a time and signing so many credit card receipts.

pornvue · 08-14-2007, 01:46 AM

My penmanship was really good before i start using the computers and stuff..but now, I try to get a pen and write, i cant even recognize my writings anymore

[ScreaM] · 08-14-2007, 01:53 AM

The only time I write is when signing cheques and yes, my handwriting is still as beautiful as it was in college/school.

calibra · 08-14-2007, 05:22 AM

mE KNow hOOWW to WriTE ...

testpie · 08-14-2007, 05:26 AM

It's just like when you used to go back to school after the big summer holiday:

"Fuck! I can't write! Come on hand, put some letters down! Fucking PlayStation 2..."

luv$ · 08-14-2007, 05:31 AM

I'm curious if anyone has noticed a decline in articulation in relation to the amount of time you spend NOT writing.

They cure stuttering problems by writing exercises sometimes, and having people switch dominant hands (if they were forced to be right handed in the early 1900's).

brand0n · 08-14-2007, 05:37 AM

i noticed this about a year ago.. i was like holy shit.. i need a keyboard..

stickyfingerz · 08-14-2007, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Wizzo

I had to go register my daughter at a new school a few weeks ago and I couldn't believe how hard it was to actually write with a pen...

haha exact same here.

Sarah_Jayne · 08-14-2007, 06:00 AM

Weird. Ages ago..when I was a teen..my mother read a sci-fi book where people no longer were able to write because they had never had to hold a pen.

For some reason that has always stuck in my head and I make sure to still use a pen now and then ..lol

Violetta · 08-14-2007, 06:05 AM

I write by hand quite often..

zeruel · 08-14-2007, 06:10 AM

i'm glad is still know how to write by pen..

Pornwolf · 08-14-2007, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash

Weird. Ages ago..when I was a teen..my mother read a sci-fi book where people no longer were able to write because they had never had to hold a pen.

For some reason that has always stuck in my head and I make sure to still use a pen now and then ..lol

Penmanship will be an art in 50 years. In another 100 years people will pay big money to have someone with good handwriting write letters and invitations to weddings and such. Mark my words.

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phypon Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 440	This thread makes me feel a whole lot better knowing that I'm not alone in the loss of my writing abilities. As some have stated, I had terrible hand writing before. Now, I feel like I have a problem whenever I try to write shit. Case in point, the other night (and granted, I had a few drinks in me) I was writing a phone number down on a piece of paper. I couldn't do it, I had to have a friend write the friggin' thing down for me. Anyway, glad I'm not alone, but I feel the rest of the peeps in the same boat.

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