[BlindTlk] [BlTlk] handwriting idea

[Judy Jones]

Hi, Jude,

I have never heard of this learning system, but would be interested to find out about it. Have you contacted Lions World about it, or googled for it?

The letter j is not a triangle though. When writing it, you would use a a straight line down, with a slight flick of the wrist to the left, that gives the short bottom horizontal line.

At CSDB, we were taught the circular rotating wrist movements one uses when writing, and how large or small that rotation should be.

It is correct that handwriting can get sloppy, especially when you don't have any visual input. My way around that is to check myself with the optacon whenever I do write.

We also had a thermoform book of all the cursive and print letters, large and small, plus punctuation. The original was made with solder, and you would learn which way to draw the letter, as you would feel the underside end of the solder and follow it with your finger as it loops and curls to the other end. The cursive letters also showed the connectors at the beginning and end of each so you would know how to join them when writing in cursive. The punctuation section showed a base-line and where the mark should go, such as, the apostrophe and quotes at the top, period and comma at the base-line, as examples.

One way to write or print in a straight line is to use a clipboard with two rubber bands stretched across to form the upper and lower edges of a writing line. Your base-line would be the bottom rubber band you can slightly move as you go below the line. To change lines, you leap-frog the top band over and below the bottom band, forming your new line.

This way, you can write on a full sheet of paper, index card, sticky note, envelope, etc.



Judy
sent from the Android HIMS BS6 braille tablet

"Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."

----- Original Message -----
From: Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Friday, January 13, 2023 04:58 AM
To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
CC: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
Subject: [BlindTlk] handwriting idea

I was thinking about the handwriting system I had been taught at what was
then Arkansas Enterprises For The blind now named Lions World
International.  The system I learned was not cursive and this system has
proved beneficial to this day.  One mistake I made was not writing down
the braille directions to produce the letters and preserving those
directions for future use.  I may be able to reproduce those directions
anyway since those use the braille system to create the handwritten
letters.  The letters resemble the Futura  Italic Font.  One of the
problems I had at that time when learning that system was how to document
writing that went below the base line.  I think I figured that out now.
First, use the 8 dot cell with 7 below the 3 and 8 below the 6.  The 3 and
6 are on the base line.  So for a capital j, I would use straight lines
with no curves and would start at 3 and go 3,4,6,3,6 at this point we have
to go below the base line so bb8,bb7,6 and the letter is finished.  If
drawn correctly, it is a large right triangle with right angle on dot 6
side attached to a smaller right triangle below the base line.  I used bb
followed by a number to tell any reader go below base line and the number
immediately after the bb is your next destination.  For those that never
learned this system of handwriting none of this will make sense.  I
unlearned cursive since all I could do after much practice was sloppy
cursive.  This new system is easily legible for others that see it for the
first time and handwriting does not usually improve with age.  Now I think
of it I'll put Sculpey on my shopping list and practice letters in that
clay.  When I learned this system of handwriting, I didn't just learn my
signature either.

Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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