• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    117·
    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.

  • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
    78·
    11 months ago

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

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
    541·
    11 months ago

    Bonus points for actually connecting the “fence posts” at the correct spots to form “minimum”.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      24·
      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.worldEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        he has an entire cult of followers, its hilarious.

        (I probably just triggered them all.)

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
          52·
          11 months ago

          When you say “an entire cult of followers”, do you actually mean a handful of the weirdest dudes in the Vatican?

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            11 months ago

            oh… no. I mean hordes of slathering buffon’s who jump on social media posts with typos.

            (ooops. I did it again.)

  • RT Redréovič@feddit.ch
    372·
    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.

        • tpyo@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          I just noticed that it was the same person responding both times. He took that like a champ

        • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
          14·
          11 months ago

          Sounds like the British guy who discovered it settled on the spelling without the extra i

          A January 1811 summary of one of Davy’s lectures at the Royal Society mentioned the name aluminium as a possibility. The next year, Davy published a chemistry textbook in which he used the spelling aluminum.

            • psud@lemmy.world
              4·
              11 months ago

              It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time

              America kept the old word. I’m half surprised America doesn’t call gold aurium

            • odium
              52·
              11 months ago

              Do you not think that textbook would have multiple places where they use that word?

                • odium
                  3·
                  11 months ago

                  Im saying that it’s not a typo if the creator of a word spells it a certain way multiple times in a book. They clearly meant to spell it that way when they were writing the book.

  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
    351·
    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

  • I Cast FistEnglish
    33·
    11 months ago

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

    • chemsed@lemmy.ca
      101·
      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.

    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
      152·
      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.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
        72·
        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.

      • crackajack@reddthat.com
        51·
        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?

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        21·
        11 months ago

        I mean it’s an objectively worse writing system. All caps printing is the most legible, and as writing is a form of communication, clarity is paramount.

        I’m also very surprised no one has started calling it racist yet because of it’s origins and which demographics historically used it. “Linguistic prescriptivism” is racist now, but handwriting is still A okay.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
    71·
    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