Penmanship

Some people have elegant handwriting even when they use a fountain pen.

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Word of the Day: Penmanship

How’s your penmanship?

Penmanship is the ability to write neatly with a pen or pencil.

Good penmanship can be elegant.

When it’s bad, it can be difficult to read.

Do you have beautiful writing?

Or does your handwriting look like the scratches of a chicken who stepped in ink and walked across your page?

Good penmanship can be quite impressive.

They say that the way a person writes can indicate their personality.

I certainly hope that is not true because I do not write beautifully now, and I never did.

So what does that mean?

Does it mean that I have a terrible personality?

Perhaps it’s the opposite.

Sometimes, I receive Christmas and New Year’s cards from people with absolutely beautiful handwriting.

Their writing is elegant and legible, whereas mine is… well, remember that chicken I talked about earlier?

Good penmanship, especially cursive writing, is becoming a lost art.

These days, most of our writing is done on computers, and in the future, there may be very few opportunities for us to practice our handwriting.

This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.