• emberwit@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Handwriting has sucked for me as long as I remember

    So fountain pens are not the default tool for getting into handwriting everywhere? What did you use to learn to write with as a child?

    • Stormyfemme@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      In the US most kids learn with pencils. When I was a kid we used wooden pencils until mechanical ones were eventually allowed and ballpoint pen usage typically was discouraged until high school. I settled on smooth flow liquid ink ball point type pens for extensive handwriting nowadays.

    • Nowyn
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      1 year ago

      I’m Finnish. We also start with wooden pencils and graduate to either ballpoint pens or some kind of fineliner marker. I am the only person I know with a fountain pen who actually uses it for normal writing. Mainly because it hurts so much less.