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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Excuse you, the Yop is clearly cursive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

God dammit English why must you copy the French for everything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah interesting context, thanks for sharing!

This does make me curious though.. how do these languages refer to cursive handwriting vs italicised font?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Looking at Wikipedia, besides the languages calling it cursive it seems there are two camps:

  • Germanic languages seem to call it "Writing letters/style" (German: Schreibschrift, Danish: Skråskrift, Dutch: Schrijfletter, Swedish: Skrivstil)
  • Romance languages seem to call it "cursive script" instead of just "cursive" (French: Écriture cursive, Italian: Scrittura corsiva, Portuguese: Letra cursiva)

Interestingly Italian calls italics "corsivo" and cursive "Scrittura corsiva" so the Wikipedia page for either has a disambiguation link to the other.