All both of them?
Seriously, is there anything other than i and j?
I’m off to create an ampersand thread.
Not that I know of, at least not in English. The dot at the bottom of my ?'s and !'s are always x’s too, but not periods, those are always just dots.
My script: a mixture of print, standard cursive, and “printsive” (print letters with connecting strokes). (and of course, two scripts: fast-note-taking and letter-writing, the first mostly incomprehensible)
For instance my lowercase S is “printsive”: stroke from previous letter to top, print an S, stroke from bottom to next letter.
My lowercase “t” is actually drawn like an inverted digit “4”, but with the little upstroke on the left side of the letter (rather than the right, where the little curl appears in typed “t”)
I never write the capital E as an inverted number 3.
My capital N is an upside down cursive, looking more like a left-to-right-mirrored “u”
When accent marks appear in mid-word (e.g. “penúltima”), I stop, mark and then (if writing cursive or prinstive) connect the diacrit to the next letter (as opposed to writing the whole word then putting the diacrits on top of letters afterwards, which ios how the teachers said it should be done) – not necessarily actually marking it on the paper, but making the hand motion as if. This because if I try to do it the teachers’ way, I end up with accents, umlauts, dots and tildes sort of randomly on top of the word.
My "g"s are like a figure-8 with a hiccough on the downstroke. OTOH my “8” is drawn as two little circles atop each other.
I superscript/underline “cent” amounts on currency. Sometimes cross 7s and printed Zs.
Handwriting analysis, or graphology, is bunk.
TheFunkySpaceCowboy, can we see an example of your note-style versus your legible style? I’d like to see it, as I’ve thought about simplifying my own letters to the point of calligraphy to gain speed.
I almost always use a very fine italic pen, using a simplified san serif calligraphic script, with 'a’s like Tolkien’s and 'e’s as they appear in the Book of Kells. However, I can only maintain about twenty words a minute like this. When I’ve forgotten to take one of my own pens out with me and I’ve got to write with a biro or rollerball I can write at roughly four times the speed, but the result is illegible to all but me.
I’d have to say that the “weirdest” thing about my handwriting is not so much my handwriting itself (largely printed, no ornate numbers or uppercase letters, though sometimes I connect letters as if in cursive, although I never use proper cursive at all – with a “straight up and down” to the slant aspect) – but HOW I write.
I don’t feel comfortable writing anything by hand unless I turn the paper almost entirely sideways so that I write “up” the paper as I write “across” the page. I can NOT sit there with the paper vertical in front of me and write by hand – it just doesn’t FEEL physically natural to write ACROSS the page! I don’t remember where I got this habit or when (to me, it seems as though I’ve always done it), but when I saw this thread I figured this had to qualify as a handwriting “idiosyncrasy.”
Note: My native tongue is English (American English, that is). I’ve never spoken, read or written in any other language, although I’m aware that there are languages which are written vertically. I mention this merely to let you know that my “vertical” writing is not because I’m “used to” some other language that’s written that way.
Oh, I don’t take it that seriously. My self-worth isn’t really wrapped up in my handwriting. People have occasionally seen my weird writing and said, “That’s supposed to mean you’re an introvert” or some such, but it usually results in a laugh instead of hurt feelings.
Unless I owe them money, in which case I go into a high dudgeon and act all offended and hurt. Never know when that’s going to work.
I cross my sevens and z’s all of the time.
My lowercase f’s are one continuous loop going from the lower-left, up to the right, straight down, lower left, the on to the next letter. (Yeah, that wasn’t clear).
I have my own style of half-cursiove, half-print writing.
I cross my sevens and Z’s and write my 1’s like this, except i just —slash across the bottom. My 8s open a bit at the top.
My Ts are a long vertical line, then come up swooshing back into their cross.
I never use pencils, just hate them. My 4s look like an upside down h as opposed to the typewritten type 4. I don’t cross z, 1, 7,or 0. For a math problem I might make my z like a 3 with a tail below the line, otherwise 2z looks too confusing. My 9s are made in one continuous motion, starting at the right side of the circle and proceeding clockwise, when I reach the starting point I continue in the same motion to make the tail. Crossword puzzles are always done in all upper case. I refuse to make capital Q look like a 2. Sometimes I’ll print in small cap format.