It's just called "handwriting" vs "printing" where I'm from. It was also mandatory when I was in grade school. I handwrite but use the printed 'a' like you see in the font b.net uses. Printing is slower and considered for young children or the slow, back home. It's much more common where I live now to print. So, I guess it's regional.
I'm 22.
My older sister, strangely enough, always prefers printing in all caps whenever she could.
My mother has disfigured fingers from having her knuckles broken by teachers for not writing properly when she was young. Though the times have changed, that school still runs and has the same rules to write rather than print.
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Same for the first bit.
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It would be ironic if your mom lost the ability to write neatly. Sad, but ironic.
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I should ask her about that sometime. I think that writing was more of a girls' thing, hence why we all were trained in it fairly well at schools (segregated by gender). But I don't actually know. She's left-handed (it's worse) but that was improper and invoked the wrath of Sithis so she writes with her right, even some 40 years later. I'm not sure if she can write with her left. I'll ask next time I visit.
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Holy shit, that poor woman.
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Yeah, those old school catholics are crazy. She's actually super chilled out and stuff though, haha. I can't imagine going through the shit she did with boarding schools and stuff. She's always been the hard ticket/troublemaker though, haha. Never broke her; she's tough as hell. I'm a huge wuss. LMAO
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[quote]My older sister, strangely enough, always prefers printing in all caps whenever she could.[/quote] That's exactly how I write. Although I distinguish capitalization by size.
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I can't argue with the legibility. I don't think she bothered wtih capitalization at all, haha. It's like reading a comic.
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Back in my edgy teen days I developed this weird style of writing that looks a lot like how death metal bands write their names for logos. Had to use all caps just so it was somewhat legible hehe
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That actually sounds cool! I've never really looked into what that was called; I've always just called it the "black metal" font, haha. [spoiler]Cool "FOTBITR" logo when, DTL? [/spoiler]
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lol I phased most of that out years ago when I got into the "real world" and had to start writing checks and stuff. Only thing that really stuck is the uppercase thing.
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Pssh, growing up.