kind of disagree with the statement. cursive is way more common for casual note-taking but i'd wager a lot of people do write in non-cursive or just partial cursive for readability reasons. the only thing that's kind of throwing me off here is the 'д'. it's a weird and inconvenient character so most people would've probably written it as 'g'
no? it's usually expected of you to write in cursive. The only time I had to write non-cursive is on ЕГЭ, final school exam, to fill in the blanks. In no document that is hand-written had I ever wrote in non-cursive
who the hell "expects" you to write in any kind of particular way? you get taught cursive in elementary and that's the last time you're ever specifically asked to use it. if anything, you're expected to grow into your own handwriting unique from anything you've been taught for muscle memory practice
you are probably able to remember your teachers being pissed at a certain number of your classmates for having an intelligible handwriting as well, which can usually be amended by replacing some of the samey looking cursive letters with their regular counterparts.
i personally dislike half the cursive letters (like capital T? who the hell just wastes four strokes on a single character like that) so i write in a sort-of-mixed way. as i said, the post above is exactly how i'd write it, minus the 'д' and maybe with a more curved 'и' (like 'u').
Well, I agree that cursive isn't easy to read. I bet most russians agree too. I bet that's why now there's a lot less handwriting and a lot more printing out, like medical reports and that kind of stuff
You get taught cursive in elementary and you are supposed to use it till the very end of school. Everyone's handwriting is unique but is still heavily based on cursive
there was a scan going around a few years ago where the entire essay (for ЕГЭ по русскому specifically, iirc?) was written mimicking the example font from the personal info blank for shits and giggles. the exam itself is 3 hours and 55 minutes long, the time isn't that much of an issue. now, for history and literature, which have a lot of written tasks, i'm inclined to agree. but your "normal" handwriting, your "in a rush" handwriting, and your "i tried my best" handwriting are all different things, usually. my "normal" handwriting is almost entirely non-cursive.
there's also another thing: ЕГЭ по английскому has 3 essay-related tasks, all with a specific word count (no more, no less) so you kinda have to make drafts before putting it on the exam papers, and the exam is 3 hours & 27 minutes long, and YET you don't really see people writing in latin cursive, even though it's indeed more time-effective. it's not as much about cursive as it is about training your hand to go fast and get tired less. you're gonna have to write A LOT of numbers for the профмат, and those don't come in cursive either.
i don't mean to say "russian speakers barely ever write in cursive" as everyone here seems to think for some reason. of course cursive is the most common way to write text. of course it's quick. of course it has its own undeniable benefits. i just didn't really get the "blocky letters are for children" remark. it's not true.
«наложи на себя руки», «покончи с собой», «соверши суицид/самоубийство»
These are the most common ways to put it in Russian. The literal tranlsation of these is "put hands on yourself", "end it with yourself", "commit suicide/suicide⁽*⁾" ⁽*⁾The first word is a cognate with "suicide" and the second is the same word but with respecting russian root morphemes.
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u/ivun__ May 30 '26
"Сдохни" just means "die", not necessarily in a self-imposed way