handwriting

For about the first 2X years of our life we wrote nothing but the letters found in the English language with the occasional accent mark and tilde. Then we went to Thailand and wrote a great deal of Thai letters. Then we dabbled in some Chinese characters and still wrote some Thai before moving to Japan. Now, in Japan there is no question that, by hand, we write almost exclusively in any three of the Japanese scripts. Only when we study do we really ever write in English, and even then it is only a small percentage of our writing.

Today we hit on this question: After writing in the script of (an)other languages, does your original handwriting change?

We don't have any pre-Japan samples with us to compare to. Of course, we want to say it does because it sounds cool - and sometimes we think it has. We think over time it would, as you give up your old habits in order to properly form characters that have similar attributes to English letters, and stop doing "g" and "y" type moves.

But, it's entirely possible that it'll never change. That with some practice to break off the rust, we'd be back where we once were.

Just a thought. We wrote "help" today and it didn't look like our usual and that brought us to the computer. Now, it's time to study again.