Observation/ Deduction Blog Entry 47

Topic: Graphology 3

none of the pictures on my blog are mine by the way

Topics of Discussion:

Introduction

Slanting of Writing

Practice Example

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Introduction

I mentioned before but I will also mention again that I am learning as well about this topic as I write the blogs on them. Everything I am doing with this series is experimentation and learning, so if you would like to contribute or make comments/ corrections feel free to do so!

I also wanted to mention that as I mentioned in my introduction blog for this series graphology is a controversial topic within the deduction community. This part of graphology specifically is branching into that controversialness. I will show you what a lot of media says about this and then tell you my opinions on the topic as well.

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Slanting of Writing

Slanting is one of the things people tend to notice right off the bat when looking at something that has been written down. This is why it is so heavily discussed with people trying to do handwriting analysis, which of course leads to a lot of contradicting opinions. There are different types of slants, different words associated with different slants, and different slants dependent on handiness. All of these should be taken in context.

There are several “what does my handwriting mean” charts online that claim to tell you what your entire personality is like based solely on the slanting of your handwriting. I will include a few here:

These images make pretty specific claims about what type of person you are simply by how your writing is slanted. I would not put much belief in things like this. These take things out of context and don’t take into account other information such as what is written like we discussed before. In order to put facts behind these claims that the charts give you, you would need to take into account what is written and the context of that writing instead of just claiming certain slants mean certain things like these charts do. Personally, I just don’t like the charts like this or their claims because it can be very contradictory and fails to take into account all of the evidence. Seeing as I have not run experiments with them though, I don’t claim to speak for their accuracy. I only speak for their value in deduction related analysis.

There is however, information that you can tell from the slant of handwriting. First we need to understand how measuring a slant works. Here are a few visuals that may help you know which slant is which:

These just show the general directions that writing can be produced in. Sometimes the writing will present as they do in the examples and be easy to tell which direction it is slanting, however keep an eye out because some slants are more subtle but still present. A good chart for measuring a slant is this line chart which you can compare to whatever writing you are looking at:

There are also some words that you will commonly see associated with different slants. No matter the natural writing slant, these words will likely appear with their associated slant.

That chart is taken out of the Handwriting Analysis Book by Amend and Ruiz. I don’t take credit for those word and slant associations.

Now, as mentioned above with the examples, there are many claims to the personality based solely on slanting of letters. Since I am still unsure whether to believe some of the more scientifically determined claims or not, I will refrain from going into detail about them. I simply want to give you information that I know will be useful and not lead you down a path that won’t be beneficial because it is controversial in nature and hard to give scientific evidence of. So, if you would like to learn more about claims of personality type based on slanting the internet can easily provide a lot of information for you. For now, I will stick to what I have experimented with and think holds solid reasoning on the subject of slanting. Let’s examine how to determine handiness from slanted writing!

A right-handed person writes away from the body with their arm moving outward whereas a left-handed person’s arm will move toward their body as they write. This causes a different slant in different situations. The different natural angle of the writing styles, when a piece of paper is placed level in front of the person writing on it, will produce a left to right slope (or what is depicted as a right slant in the above images) in a right-handed individual and just the opposite for a left-handed individual. However, if the paper is not placed level when being written on, the slant is liable to either be less noticeable or change completely. A person who writes with a straighter slant is likely to have taken more time with their handwriting and either trained themselves to write that way or just taken their time in writing whatever they have. Less of a slant usually indicates more time taken in the writing, where an extreme slant says more rushed writing (as a general rule… always take into account context). It is possible to reverse the slanting simply based on the position of the body in relation to the paper. If you were to angle your paper at a 45 degree angle while writing that would likely be enough to change the slant. You can still tell handiness from a reversed slant though. Take into account every detail of the writing and there will be a lean toward the natural slant even if the paper is angled. This however, is hard to show a visual example of because it does take practice to tell and it would be difficult to try to create a visual myself with my own handwriting. My advice for detecting this in lieu of a visual example is to look more at what is written, variances between letters and just practice. Compare how the letters lean to the baseline of what a left-handed or right-handed person’s writing would normally look like as depicted in the charts above. Even if the slant is different, there will still be letters that default back to the original slant. I will however, give you some examples of the natural slanting when the paper is placed directly in front of the writer for comparison to other writing samples.

Here is an example of the natural right-handed slant:

(that one is more subtle but you can still see the slanting direction)

Here is an example of the natural left-handed slant:

So, here you can see how even though there is a lot of controversial things on the internet about slanting of handwriting, if anything, you can still definitely tell something useful to deduction from that slanting of writing. Handiness is one of the first things you always want to look for and try to determine with any form of deduction because it is usually fairly easy to spot and is always good practice.

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Practice Example

Just like last time I want to give a practice exercise which you can of course send me your deductions for if you would like. Try to also apply what I mentioned about handwriting in the last two blogs. Look at what is written, etc.

What does what the actual writing tell you about the person?

What does the size of the writing tell you about their personality?

What does the slanting tell you about their handiness?

Just from those three questions you can ask yourself other follow up questions to make further deductions and conclusions about the person. Use the example I did in my Graphology 1 blog as a guide for how much information you can tell simply from the first question. Then when you add the new information you now know you should be able to come up with a lot more information as well! Good luck and I hope this helps!

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