# What does bad handwriting look like in non-Latin alphabet languages?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 29, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bad-handwriting-look-like-in-non-latin-alphabet-languages/659661 "2013-05-29T22:51:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocodiles_And_Boulevards)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bad-handwriting-look-like-in-non-latin-alphabet-languages/659661/1 "2013-05-29T22:51:31Z")

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Out of idle curiosity, can anyone with familiarity of a language like Japanese or Arabic that uses a non-Latin alphabet point to examples of what poor handwriting looks like in everyday script?

I ask because I’m practicing some hiragana today and imagine it must look like what a kindergarten-aged Japanese kid must write. Admittedly, my English handwriting is also crap.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-bad-handwriting-look-like-in-non-latin-alphabet-languages/659661/2 "2013-05-31T03:20:26Z")

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An ex-gf was Persian, writing in Farsi. Her writing looked just like you’d think bad penmanship would look-like a kindergarten aged Iranian wrote it, only in a different script.