My Handwriting Has an Expiration Date

[snurri]

If anyone knows what the last word on the fourth line there is, let me know.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Have you tried using a mirror?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Ha ha.

[mrdankelly.livejournal.com]

Semprini.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

The one you scratched out?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Watch your mouth, Sir!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

No, the one before it. There's an em-dash over that scratched-out part. Are you telling me you didn't see it?

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I thought for a moment that someone had scanned my handwriting in, but you scribble out words differently than I do.

Left or right handed?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Right. I have a weird grip, though.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I scribble out words tilted the other way. Probably the difference between me being left-handed and you right. Heh.

I once had a teacher ask me, handing back a paper, what language I had written it in. Another teacher used to joke about me and several hieroglyphics experts being the only people who could read my writing. She was wrong though, because most of the time, I can't even read it.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I can write more neatly if I take a lot of time, which made Blue Book exams tortuous. And yeah, if I look at stuff like this within two or three days I'm usually OK--after that I start to lose words. Sigh.

[bibliogrrl.livejournal.com]

Remind me to not bitch about my handwriting, k?

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

"barf"

[snurri.livejournal.com]

No problem.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Not a bad guess. Not a correct one, either, sadly.

[bibliogrrl.livejournal.com]

did you get the mail, by the way?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yes! Thank you very much :-)

[bibliogrrl.livejournal.com]

RULE.

[squirrel-monkey.livejournal.com]

Buy? Bay?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Since posting this I've decided it was supposed to be "bow."

[merylinabarrel.livejournal.com]

Christ.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[jonhansen.livejournal.com]

That's quite some handwriting you've got there, dude. I would guess it from context, except I'm having trouble establishing it. Is this a fair translation?


"I fought house-to-house with ?Bowrater? ?it? ?but?. Well, ?one? village would still have been destroyed. Burned to the ground, likely. But possibly not quite so many of his comrades would have died."

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I was totally guessing "id Burr."

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Not bad! You got the last two sentences in full. The rest is:

"and [preceded by a comma] fought house-to-house with barricades and bows [I figured it out]--well, the village would still have been destroyed."

I am my own language, man. Has anyone considered that maybe Linear B was just a dude with really bad chisel-man-ship?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a really uninhibited episode of "Ironsides."

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Maybe not. But that sure as heck looks like "barfeater" in front of it, there.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

The barfeaters are the palace vomitorium guards, of course.

[rudi.livejournal.com]

I was going to guess "I fought house-to-house with [a] barometer at her will..." which suggested to me a legion of battle-meteorologists carrying out the whims of some kind of warrior queen.

But I guess not.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to hear what their headgear looks like!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I kinda wish I was writing that book.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I thought it could have been Aaron's Arabic brother.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Aw, jeez, don't get all high-falutin' with me! I'm sticking with Raymond. And Freud.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

BUt really, that's a Rudi sort of story. So I expect him to get cracking on that pronto.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I decided it was bears. Fighting house to house with barricades and bears would be awesome.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

"later"

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I was teasing. :-) I figured it out; it's supposed to be "bows."

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Damn. It would!

[mallory-blog.livejournal.com]

OMG - that's horrid for sure -- bur?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

It was bad enough that I had to share it. Turns out, it's "bows."

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

You shoulda been a doctor. For true.

I have really big sloppy handwriting, but the bigness allows me to read it. I go through about three notebooks a week at work.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I'm terified by the thought of giving autographs.

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Bad handwriting is actually an asset in the giving of autographs. If you write too well, your hand gets tired faster.

[experimeditor.livejournal.com]

"burp". My handwriting is about as bad, if it's any consolation.

[tbclone47.livejournal.com]

I've seen quite a bit of bad handwriting in my 22 years of teaching, and I've been able, most of the time, to decipher it all.

I think you got me, though. :)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Honestly, when I first looked at it I thought it was "buns." "fought house-to-house with barricades and buns." I wish I could pull off sentences like that in this book.

We should start a support group. Chicken-Scratchers Anonymous.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Huh. OK, I choose to believe you.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I win!

[experimeditor.livejournal.com]

that is an absolutely brilliant sentence. You could turn that into a story.

The only problem with Chicken-Scratchers Anonymous is the question "who's taking the meeting minutes"?

*crickets chirping outside the meetinghouse*