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In reply to the discussion: Cursive writing is not being taught in much of America. [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,927 posts)write with the hand at an angle that covers the page, leading to the ink smear. Others write more up and down, sort of like a rightie. No ink smear.
Years ago a read a book about handedness (right and left) and learned lots of interesting things. I'd long ago noticed that difference in how lefties write -- hooking, not hooking. Towards the end of the book the author talked about how she came to write the book. She herself was a normal rightie. Her husband was a rightie who hooked. Go ahead, hold your hand up, and do the hook. Got it?
Because the book was about handedness, she'd already discussed brain configuration. The vast majority or regular right-handed people have their handedness run by the left side of the brain. For most lefties, it's the opposite. The difference between lefties who hook when they write and those who don't, has to do with what side of the brain is operating what side of the body.
The author said that she noticed her right-handed husband hooked when he wrote. An extremely small percentage of right-handed people hook when they write. They're in the tiny minority of those whose right side of the body is controlled by the right side of the brain.
My son is right-handed. He hooks when he writes. I don't think I've ever come across anyone else who also does that.