https://xkcd.com/2912

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𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.

  • @[email protected]
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    403 months ago

    Lowercase m, n, u, v, and w are confusing as shit when placed next to or near each other.

      • @[email protected]
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        313 months ago

        So Donald Trump has been signing his name in Russian this whole time? It all makes sense now!

      • megane-kun
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        73 months ago

        I remember coming across a similar comment chain, and someone brought out cursive Hanzi, and everyone lost their minds.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          I am going to show this to my Chinese teacher to see if it’s in any way legible. Because honestly, I can’t see that being readable by anybody.

        • @[email protected]
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          83 months ago

          No, that’s true. However, putting lines under e.g. the ш makes it a bit more readable.

        • @[email protected]
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          83 months ago

          Cyrilic cursive uses dashes in the same way Latin uses dots. Try writing "minimum’ without them, and you’ll get the same results.

            • @[email protected]
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              63 months ago

              You know how и and п have the same shape, but п has a dash on top? You can put the dash on the bottom to easily differentiate и and ш from м and л.

        • megane-kun
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          3 months ago

          You got me writing ‘vacuum’ and ‘anniversary’ in cursive, and got so conscious about how I write it that my speed crawled to a stop and my handwriting got even worse than what I started with, lol!

          In casual writing, I separate out v, w and other letters that are trickier to write in full cursive. Same goes with t, i, j so that I can do the crosses and dots before moving on.

          All those seems to have done the job of making my cursive a bit easier to read. All hell breaks loose when I need to write really fast though.


          EDIT: stupid formatting, lol!

            • megane-kun
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              93 months ago

              I tried writing them so that I can post this. I might have failed in making them both cursive and legible, lol!

              That very last line is my attempt at writing at speed. 😅

              • @[email protected]
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                23 months ago

                Man, this must be what it feels like to be a teacher, all the time. It’s cool though, much better than I can manage.

                • megane-kun
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                  23 months ago

                  Lol~‌ Thanks.

                  I grew up at a time when cursive is a requirement–not just for one class, but for all classes in primary school. I remember our teachers checking our notebooks and making comments on our handwriting. All our compositions and essays were required to be in cursive, and they check for penmanship, keeping margins and all that. It was a whole lot of effort for something that I rarely get to use in higher levels. I switched to print in HS, when cursive is no longer required.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          I didn’t mean the word, but the way some people write the letters ‘m’ and ‘n’ with the bows downwards, so that the look really similar to ‘w’ and ‘u’.

          • megane-kun
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            23 months ago

            Oh, yeah! Sometimes context helps, but if you can’t even read a single word, you’re just out of luck!