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[–] [email protected] 113 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

After like 5 tries and squinting and using my finger to block lines as I went along, I managed to verify for myself that it does in fact have the proper amount of lines.

[–] CptBread 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's not just the correct amount of lines but connections between the lines are actually there, if they should be that is, if you look closely.

[–] kokopelli 9 points 6 months ago

Oh shit you’re right

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[–] wabafee 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thank you for your service.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sanyanov 85 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Мишки лишили шиншилл лилии, шиншиллы лишили мишек шишки

(Bears stole lily from chinchillas, chinchillas stole cone from bears)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] eating3645 29 points 6 months ago

It's easier to read after a few pints of vodka

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Mental illness

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Such a beautiful language

[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 months ago

Well, that's why you add dots and stuff over the letters so it becomes "easy" to distinguish. Example Kurrent script:

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Wow! This is just what I often joke about to my friends. I write in such heavy cursives that when I write words like Minimum or Aluminium, they become hard to read for anyone else.

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[–] hakunawazo 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I get very anxious when someone starts such a long word so far to the right* of the page.

* obviously only for LTR direction

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

calligraphy has a patron demon, not a patron saint

[–] Viking_Hippie 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Titivillus has also been described as collecting idle chat that occurs during church service, and mispronounced, mumbled or skipped words of the service, to take to Hell to be counted against the offenders

Damn..that narc needs to RELAX 😆

[–] FuglyDuck 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

he has an entire cult of followers, its hilarious.

(I probably just triggered them all.)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So glad we can just blame autocorrect for everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Devil is in the details

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what makes transcribing some very olde texts REALLY fucking hard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Like the texts in the tabletop Warhammer 1st edition campaign. Only one character in the party can read because of literacy in that universe and era. I understand why.

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[–] Anticorp 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is this how calligraphy looks to people who can't read cursive?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Being from somewhere where everyone learns cursive and most use it in handwriting, I was very surprised when I learned a lot of (mostly American?) people can't make any sense of it at all.

I remember a guy posting an old handwritten letter on Reddit, just asking for a transcript. And while I agree many people have terrible handwriting that is absolutely undecipherable for anyone but themselves (if at all), this was not the case at all here.

I understand why that would be a problem if someone never learned it or only in passing and never used it again, but it's so weird being able to read something naturally with no effort while others treat it like a mysterious cryptogram.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess they have stopped teaching it at some of schools in the United States. The kids that don't know it are really passionate about why they don't need to know it, to the point of calling it stupid. I made some arguments in a post about it a week ago and they're adamant that they don't need and don't want it. Obviously I think people should still learn it, but I don't sit on a school board.

[–] adrian783 5 points 6 months ago

I think cursive is a low priority on a list of increasingly important extracurricular topics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I was taught how to write cursive before I emigrated to Ireland. When I arrived cursive writing isn't being used in the country. And to be honest, learning cursive is pointless. Like, why? It developed as a pretentious way to write by the elites in the past. We're learning how to write "normal" to start with when we were just starting in school. Then later on we're taught to write in cursive when we could write in more easily legible and readable separated letters. The advent of the computer and emails have made handwriting largely obsolete anyhow.

I've read an article of a professor lamenting the fact that new generations are not being taught how to write and read cursive. Admonishing who would be able to read old cursive handwritings for historical research and posterity. The professor may feel nostalgic for the old ways, but has it occurred to him that cursive writing is a relic of the past, and reading it could be done by a specialist historian, same way as someone who reads Sumerian cuneiform?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You're upsetting шиншилла

[–] RIP_Cheems 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All I see is MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[–] Pogbom 6 points 6 months ago

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Is this what dyslexia is like?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Take a word like, "minimum;" to choose a random word.
For anyone to say they cannot read it is absurd!

-- Tom Lehrer, The Professor's Song

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
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