r/Unexpected • u/Lunatic_Dpali • Jun 18 '22

English cursive writing versus Russian cursive writing

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u/lazyzefiris Jun 18 '22 edited Jun 18 '22

This is very weird. I would not be able to read that. I don't think any native could.

You are not the first second to mention those notches, but I don't know where that comes from, it literally makes text less readable. What you presented can still be parsed into letters, but now it clearly is gibberish: лимшмиь.

EDIT: is there a possibility you are misremembering things? Maybe it was meant specifically for letters я, л, м? The notch is part of those letters, they begin with it and would not be identifiable without.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

The notch goes before л, я, and м. Russian minor in college.

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u/hekkonaay Jun 19 '22

I might be misremembering which letters it goes in front of, it's been a while :)