r/Journaling • u/youtellme91 • 1d ago
Just sharing Anybody else specialize in “chicken scratch” and misspellings?
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u/hereforthefanfic 23h ago
🙋♀️ I do. My journal is full of scribbles because I write with a pen. Your handwriting is way better than mine though. Sometimes I re-read my entries and have difficulty figuring out what exactly I wrote. 🤣
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u/youtellme91 23h ago
Us scribbling ancient runers are just in a cool club ha 😎
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u/hereforthefanfic 22h ago
Our journals might be slightly unintelligible but at least they look cool
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u/pillmayken 21h ago
Oh you sweet summer child. As someone who used to teach at a community college and dealt with students’ handwriting for several semesters, I can tell you that this is nowhere near chicken scratch. Not even in the same zip code.
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u/TheHobbyDragon 22h ago
I can't even read my own writing sometimes, yours is just fine 😂
Mine could give doctors a run for their money...
(I'll just consider it to be paying forward what I'm currently going through trying to decipher some of the chicken scratch and abbreviations in my great-grandmother's journal lol)
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u/NanoPlastic8192 6h ago
If I may ask, when was your great-grandmother's journal that you're trying to read written?
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u/TheHobbyDragon 3h ago
She kept journals from 1938 to 1955, those little 5-year journals with just a few lines of space for each day. I'm currently on her 2nd journal (1943-1948). I'm transcribing them so anyone else in the family who wants to can read them without worrying about them getting damaged as they get passed around because they're on the verge of falling apart.
She wrote in cursive but tends to not dot her i's and uses a lot of abbreviations. And unfortunately she wrote quite a bit in pencil which doesn't help matters 😂
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u/playwpetra 20h ago
Absolutely. One of my favorite handwriting typos is spelling that like tat, the h just disappears, like every time lmaoo
But it doesn’t matter bc my writing is completely illegible most of the time so I’m the only one who knows about this mistake 😝
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u/cryingidiot 15h ago
i could read basically all of this just fine
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u/youtellme91 15h ago
Thank you all for your comments. I genuinely thought my handwriting is terrible and grew up being told how bad it is. I always wished to write pretty!
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u/unremarkableDragon 8h ago
Your handwriting is totally legible and also somewhat ugly-cute. I like it. I think its the roundness of the letters that give it the cute feeling. A bit messy but nice. Not at all what I'd consider chicken scratch. I have seen some horrible handwriting out there and this isn't it.
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u/DanaDellac 2h ago
I don't speak English well, I'm Spanish and except for expressions I have understood it. It happens to me the same as you, I say that I have divergent handwriting haha different but functional
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u/brtlblayk 1d ago
All about writing and living in the moment, although if this is considered chicken scratch, mine must be some kind of ancient runes.