Handwriting meme

[salinea]

from hamsterwoman
The Handwriting Meme
1) Your name / username
2) Left or right handed?
3) Favourite letters to write
4) Least favourite characters to write
5) Write "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
6) Tag five people

I have the ugliest handwriting in the history of handwritings, let me show it to you!





Of course even if tagged, don't feel obligated to do the meme!

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Ooh, I like the way you make the loops of letters like b, k, l, and especially h -- very unusual, and neat!

Do you want me to take a stab at handwriting analysis? (as a sort of second opinion) :)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Maybe the French teaching is different from the American one too - that can influence stuff as well.

Sure! I'd love for you to!

[hamsterwoman]

You might be right about the standard way people are taught to write in school being different in different countries and having some influence on the finished result. But very few people I know continue writing the way they were taught, so I think cross-country graphology should still mostly work...

OK, so first of all it's a bit hard to see some aspects that graphology tells you to look at in a scan, because I can't judge things like pressure. From the thickness of the lines, it looks like you're applying quite a bit of pressure, but that might be just a scanning artefact. If you do have strong writing pressure, that would imply a forceful personality.

Looking at the writing as a whole, there is a very slight upward tilt to the lines, which would suggest a (slightly) optimistic personality. The lines themselves are straight (as opposed to wobbly) which is good -- sanity and such things. Your spacing between lines is fairly even and neither too tight nor too large, which means a clear and logical thinker.

Looking at the slant of the letters (as opposed to the lines) there's some variation. It's not extreme, but you have letters that slant right, and ones that slant left, though mostly they are pretty vertical. Vertical slant means a personality that's in control of emotions, rightward slant means a more emotional person, while a leftward slant could mean someone who represses or bottles up their emotions. So, the variation in your writing would suggest a personality who is mostly in control of herself, but subject to more emotional moments and ones where she tries to repress her emotion, if that makes any sense.

This is another thing that's a bit hard to judge, but your writing looks moderately pointed, which suggests a moderately aggressive personality -- i.e. aggressive in a good way.

The most striking feature on the letter-level were the loops in the upper zone. Upper zone is supposed to be the superego, as the middle zone is the ego, and the lower zone (the tips of letters like y, g, q) are supposed to represent the id. I would say your upper zone dominates, which means a person whose imagination is very strong and active. The sort of baroque loops are actually not in my book and I've never encountered them before... so I'm not sure what they're supposed to mean -- probably that strengthens the idea that imagination is important to you and that you are a creative, unusual person thanks to your imagination.

Your a's and o's are closed, which means you are trustworthy and diplomatic. Your t's are crossed low and to the right, which mean humility and energy, liveliness, drive respectively.

Your I (which is supposed to reflect how you feel about yourself -- at least in English -- I'm not sure it works the same way if English is not the language you mostly handwrite in, which I assume it's not for you) -- anyway, your "I" is very straightforward and no-frills, about the same size as your other capital letters, which means a person with a normal degree of confidence -- neither a person who boasts and thrusts herself forward nor somebody who tries to make herself small and hide.

How a person writes their name could be a sign of how they feel about their public self (mostly that's supposed to show up in the signature) or how they feel about the name. This is a writing sample of one, so it might be a one-off thing, but "Elisa" came out a lot clearer than the first part of your name, and so did "Etrangere". I might surmise that you dislike the Anne part of your name, or have some negative associations with it? Also, "Etrangere", curiously enough, has the most pronounced upward slope in the sample. Maybe you're more of an optimist online? :)

I think on the whole what it adds up to is that you are a logical, prudent, generally optimistic, moderately ambitious person who is very imaginative and has a healthy view of the self, but occasionally struggles with emotion.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

wow what an awesome analysis! I think of myself as optimistic, definitely analytical, logical and imaginative! Not sure about the healthy view of self right now, but I guess it could be worse ^^ I think I tend to repress my emotions, but not always successfully, so that part is right on too.

I do rather dislike the "Anne" part. I mean, at least I hate when people call me "Anne" instead of the mouthful that is "Anne-Elisa" and I'd rather they called me "Elisa" than "Anne".

Thank you so much for this!! &hears;

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, you're very welcom and I'm glad it made sense! :D (The "view of self" thing mostly comes from the I, which I expect is the thing least likely to carry over into a foreign language, so that might not aply...)

[solesakuma]

I actually love your name partly because it's a mouthful... and that's why I should never be allowed to name my children. XP

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I like my name as well, even if I sometimes find it frustrating to get miscalled by other people. I used to be very self concious about it when I was a kid, but now I'm okay with it, you know?

Believe me, I've seen way way worse than my name!

[solesakuma]

They miscall you??? But it's not that hard. O_o
Anyway, I don't think I'll pick bad names, just overly long ones and I'd add a few second/third names as well and then bank employees would hate me forever.

[shiinabambi.livejournal.com]

This...

I want to steal you.

If I do this meme with my tablet, will you analyze it? ♥

[hamsterwoman]

I would give it a shot! I've never tried to do handwriting analysis on a tablet-written sample, so I'm not sure how things would carry over, but I'm curious to find out. :)

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Hey! that's me!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is!

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

I wrote it all out and later will post it. My husband will take a picture of the writing with his fancy camera. I have loopy but hard to read handwriting. I wrote some letters in Hebrew too.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

yay hebrew! I don't remember at all the hebrew letters I learned a very very long time ago :(

[rebbe]

I love how neat your writing looks -- all loopy and cool!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Neat? Neat! My writing is anything but neat XDDDD

[rebbe]

I beg to differ >:

[millari.livejournal.com]

I think your writing is interesting, actually. It's got really neat extremes of flourish and lack of flourish. And yeah, I think there must be something different about the way penmanship is taught in America and Europe, because your writing vaguely reminds me of my French friend's and my Portuguese relatives' writing.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Extreme, yeah, and not very easy to read ;)

I have vague recollection about the difference in teaching between Europe and America yes. We initially learned in a very fancy longhand writing, which I progressively gave up on (although in any case, my writing was still ugly and unreadable according to everyone including myself)

[eefster.livejournal.com]

There are definitely different "normal" or "standard" forms in the US and European countries -- my handwriting is still very different from the Irish folks I know, even though my spoken accent has elided to Irish quite a bit.

Similarly, though they are more similar to each other than to the US, "school" handwriting taught in Germany, France, Ireland, and the UK are each different too. (From what I've seen, anyway, from friends' letters who learned to write in those countries.)

So, uh, not disagreeing with you; in fact, I'm just trying to say I think you're absolutely right. :p

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's pretty interesting. But frustrating not to have the right words and description to put onto it.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Hee! There's something cool about doing a handwriting meme over the internet where we always type. I'll try to remember to do this tomorrow!

I like your Th connection loop.:-)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

It's nicely old fashioned, isn't it ^^

Thank you, lol. I don't think I've ever received as many compliments on my handwriting as today XD