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[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 111 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can make it much more legible by just curving the parts that are susposed to be curved and not just doing jagged edges everywhere.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago

Strictly based on where the jagged points are and where the strokes end, I would say the word written was uůẃnwu.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looks like vùnunww to me.

Also yeah you got it quite well.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

It's called writing garlands and is a mess for obvious reasons.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah it makes it look like russian cyrilic cursive. That one actually is supposed to have more letters look that way.

Or the Serbian one.

That is the word for paté. The letters with lines over them sound completely different as well.

Like this

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Fortunately, my russian teacher wrote "normally", while I had to deal with basically this mess in German, where you only could separate the u from the n and the w from the m by the lines below the u and w.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

That's a feature of a very old German hand writing style that hasn't been used much since WWII

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Yet, Sütterlin looks different, as it often has vertical and diagonal straight lines where Latin script has round shapes. But likewise, it's difficult to read.

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're ruining the meme

Edit: didn't think I needed this: /s

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Cannot ruin a bad faith argument. I can also write chickenscratch and fast but it still looks more legible than that.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Be greatful you dont write in Cyrillic

This is just an example, there are more letter in the same situation. The most hillarious for me is "T"

[-] megopie 2 points 1 month ago

My favorite example is from doctors notes, as doctors having unintelligible cursive appears to be a universal constant across the world.

[-] JASN_DE@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago

Or you go all-in with a mix of Sütterlin and cursive and arrive at the only logical conclusion:

Handwritten "minimum"

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Sütterlin is cursive? Do you mean mix it with Vereinfachteausgangschrift?

[-] JASN_DE@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Eh, most likely yes.

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

mimimimimimi

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

More than the misuse, of commas?

[-] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Christopher Walken, approves of this, comment.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

I never learned cursive, my native tongue uses an entirely different script, so for learning English as a second language, separate letters sufficed. This is what all cursive text looks like to me. I can never read it, even if I try really hard.

[-] latenightnoir 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, tends to get like that after speed and comfort start having more weight in the process. Switched to D’Nealian Handwriting (apparently), with more inertial Cursive motions than evident in the example given on the site, because I started having trouble reading my own handwriting once I got into high-school and had to fill up half a damned notebook during Maths and Geography classes....

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting list. My handwriting is mostly what's called "print handwriting" here, but my a and t are like the D'Nealian ones. And needless to say, my handwriting is not as pretty as any of these.

[-] latenightnoir 0 points 1 month ago

Honestly, doesn't even have to be... Handwriting is slowly but surely becoming an obsolete means of recording information, most everything's typed nowadays. Unfortunate (*purely subjective opinion, I enjoy writing by hand A LOT!)

As long as someone else can understand it at first (or second, s'fine!) glance, no need for it to be pretty:D

[-] germtm_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

that's just a spring.

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago
[-] Arigion@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago
[-] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

How to trigger a British person...

[-] UnicodeSmiley 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mimmimmmm

My ass cannot read cursive to save my life.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That's because this is terrible cursive and rage bait.

and that's why we don't really use cursive anymore

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