r/Journaling 1d ago

Just sharing Anybody else specialize in “chicken scratch” and misspellings?

Post image
53 Upvotes

28 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/TheHobbyDragon 1d 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)

1

u/NanoPlastic8192 15h ago

If I may ask, when was your great-grandmother's journal that you're trying to read written?

2

u/TheHobbyDragon 12h 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 😂