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https://xkcd.com/2912 Alt text: 𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish31•3 months agoSo Donald Trump has been signing his name in Russian this whole time? It all makes sense now!
minus-squaremegane-kuncakelinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 months agoI remember coming across a similar comment chain, and someone brought out cursive Hanzi, and everyone lost their minds.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoI 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.
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agothis feels like a shitpost and i wont fully believe it until - i dunno when.
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoNo, that’s true. However, putting lines under e.g. the ш makes it a bit more readable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoCyrilic cursive uses dashes in the same way Latin uses dots. Try writing "minimum’ without them, and you’ll get the same results.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoThis is the first I’m hearing about dashes. What do you mean?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoYou 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.
Try Cyrillic cursive.
So Donald Trump has been signing his name in Russian this whole time? It all makes sense now!
Good god.
I remember coming across a similar comment chain, and someone brought out cursive Hanzi, and everyone lost their minds.
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.
this feels like a shitpost and i wont fully believe it until - i dunno when.
No, that’s true. However, putting lines under e.g. the ш makes it a bit more readable.
Can ia solve this problem?
Cyrilic cursive uses dashes in the same way Latin uses dots. Try writing "minimum’ without them, and you’ll get the same results.
This is the first I’m hearing about dashes. What do you mean?
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.