griffonage

[underused]

From the French griffoner, 'to scribble or scrawl,' griffonage is a pretty word for terrible handwriting.

How much writing do you still do "by hand"? Print or cursive?

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handwriting sample: Edna St Vincent Millay

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[misbegotten]

I do cards and postcards in prinsive. Cursint? (Oh, that sounds naughty.) Mostly the wotd is very applicable to me.

[underused]

First, "prinsive." Perfect!

The second link is an opinion piece discussing the issue of whether children should still learn cursive writing in school. I think it was in one of the comments someone noted that most of our adult writing is exactly what you describe--a personalised mix of print and cursive that gives us optimum efficiency while (hopefully) remaining legible. But if we never learned cursive, we'd never really learn to use handwriting effectively. I thought it was an interesting idea.