On Reddit, the online platform where people go for advice, conspiracy theories and NSFW everything, there’s one “porn” community that’s just about the furthest thing from salacious you can imagine: “Penmanship Porn.” There, users share photos and videos of beautiful penmanship — their own or others. Additional Reddit communities in this constellation offer a safe place for users to post their indecipherable scrawls to be decoded by thousands of strangers. Emily Smith, 19, likes to keep Post-it n
We’re all texters and typers now, so if you can’t read that grocery list you scrawled, you are not alone.
Struggling to decipher it, she posted a photo of the note in a Reddit community where thousands have sought help to decode messy handwriting. At the time, she said, people believed that not teaching children cursive went against traditional American values. They feared children would lose their connection to history if they were unable to read historical documents including the Declaration of Independence.
For Eileen Page, a 78-year-old handwriting consultant in Scituate, Massachusetts, who also specializes in forensic forgery and suspicious signatures, a move away from cursive has even made writing signatures simpler. “You might have memories of your grandmother’s handwriting being really beautiful, and then you see handwriting like that and it is already ingrained,” Bugbee, 34, said.
For Majd Taby, a 35-year-old software engineer and startup founder in Los Angeles, writing by hand is rare. When Taby came across a fountain pen at a grocery store, he decided to buy it and give it a try a few years ago. He joined Reddit groups in hopes of finding writing resources and came across the Palmer Method, a system of writing popularized in the early 20th century that emphasizes using your entire arm.
Before the pandemic, she offered in-person lessons, which typically cost $100 for the first session and $75 for subsequent sessions plus travel. “There is something lovely about writing, and there is something really personal about it that email and photos and even a phone conversation doesn’t have,” he said.In 2021, a CBS News poll found that 37% of American adults had not written and sent a personal letter in over five years, and another 15% had never written and sent a personal letter.
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