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    OurJud Contributor Contributor

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    Do you have a particular letter you dislike?

    Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by OurJud, Jun 30, 2018.

    To write by hand, I mean.

    Like most people I'm dissatisfied with my hand-writing in general - I dread writing greeting cards because of how ugly the writing looks. But the uppercase G in particular is my worst. In fact I dislike writing any capital letter to start a word, because it never seems to sit neatly with the letters that follow it.

    The thing is, though, I just put up with it. It's almost as though I feel I need to accept it for what it is, rather than do something to improve it.
     
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    T_L_K Senior Member

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    I don't like my small fs, because they often don't look like fs, so I have to rewrite them.
     
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    Shenanigator Has the Vocabulary of a Well-Educated Sailor. Contributor

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    My large G’s are also particularly ugly...but I suppose they never had much of a chance with me, because I write all my cursive capitals differently than the “official” way we were taught in school.
     
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    I just seem to vapor-lock when I have to handwrite.
     
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    the letter P because it is b upside down.
     
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    Capital C. I want C, but ( is what I get.
    And these: Æ æ, especially the little bastard. Forget about it. They come out almost as mangled as my ampersands.
     
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    This one's interesting. Not that I'm questioning you dislike the letter, but in what way do you struggle writing a capital C? It's actually one of my favourite letters to write.
     
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    Night Herald The Fool Contributor

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    I don't know, they just seem to always become parentheses. I should point out that I'm typically very careless with my handwriting, only ever jotting down things in a hurry, and could maybe make a decent C if my life depended on it. Probably.
     
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    The letter "C" tastes like unsweetened tea, so I'm not particularly fond of it, but "H" has a horrendous flavor and texture and "X" tastes and feels like paper bag - don't ask, lol.
     
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    The round letters. B,C,D,G,O,Q,S, etc., as majuscules.

    I have no hand or artistry as regards giving them any kind of graceful curve that is aesthetically pleasing. They end up squashed or leaning or distorted.
     
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    Zerotonin Serotonin machine broke

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    If I'm hand writing something? All of them. I have some of the sloppiest handwriting known to man, mainly because my brain tends to fire through what I want to say at a much quicker pace than I can scribe it. I'm also left-handed so I smudge ink all over the side of my hand when I write.
     
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    C, both lowercase and uppercase, and capital q. I write in cursive, so the Q always looks weird to me. C just physically feels so irritating to write for some reason.
     
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    I like the reason :p

    For me its q, because it's just so useless and not pretty
     
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    Komposten Insanitary pile of rotten fruit Contributor

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    I definitely hate 'e'. Always ends up looking like a 'c', and when I try to fix it (which I always do) it just becomes an ugly squiggle...
     
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    Actually come to think Dreamer96 the letter q is the letter b but down and facing the opposite way o_O :superwink:
     
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    I cannot print an n to save my life. I grew up being forced to write in cursive, even though by the time I came of age, it was pretty much irrelevant. Now, for some reason, I can't just do a print n. It winds up looking like a squashed m.
     
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    All of my handwritten characters suck, but I hate the ones that take a longer time to write. K's, t's, H's, F's and f's. I don't write Q's so often, because it's not so often that I start a sentence with this letter.
     
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    I write like a doctor. Not even kidding, my handwriting looks something like this,

    [​IMG]

    So, all of them. Every single one of the horrid letters.
     
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    X. Why do they exists again...?.oh yeah....?

    I want the letter Yogh back. ȝ
     
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    C... I think it is the most useless letter in english. it can be either a K or an S, but never really seems to have a sound on it's own....
     

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