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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 114 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 40 points 11 months ago
[-] the_third@feddit.de 22 points 11 months ago

Your service is appreciated.

[-] CptBread@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Oh shit you’re right

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[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thank you for your service.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 80 points 11 months ago
[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 85 points 11 months ago

Мишки лишили шиншилл лилии, шиншиллы лишили мишек шишки

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

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[-] Arelin@lemmy.zip 40 points 11 months ago
[-] eating3645@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

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

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

Mental illness

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Such a beautiful language

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 78 points 11 months ago

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

[-] RTRedreovic@feddit.ch 35 points 11 months ago

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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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 35 points 11 months ago

calligraphy has a patron demon, not a patron saint

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

he has an entire cult of followers, its hilarious.

(I probably just triggered them all.)

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[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 33 points 11 months ago

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

[-] chemsed@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 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.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 29 points 11 months ago
[-] Crul@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

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

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 13 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] crackajack@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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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[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're upsetting шиншилла

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

All I see is MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[-] Pogbom@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[-] HamBrick@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Is this what dyslexia is like?

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 6 points 11 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

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago
[-] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of Russian handwriting. Always funny to show foreigners.

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