Russian handwriting
I’ll forever be amused at the Russian word “deprived” (лишили) in cursive, which looks like
for people wondering how the hell that works
I still don’t know how the hell that works.
See, to me it looks a lot like ‘minimum’ in English cursive:
Ok not so bad right? But it gets worse…
Like… what even is this?
Can’t tell me that’s a word right? But it is! Sure you could dot the i’s, but would it really help?
source here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Handwriting/comments/1hgsc8/write_minimum_in_cursive_without_dotting_the_is/
Yes. Yes it would.
Wikipedia: Minim (palaeography)
Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this
fuck every last bit of this
Humans invented writing as a way of communicating information and it’s pretty great on the whole but we maybe did not adequately prepare for depreciation in legibility
@official-linguistics-post ?
Wtf guys ten years
Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this
because a primary objective of cursive handwriting, from inception to the abandonment of dip pens, has always been to avoid getting inkblots on the page from lifting the pen when it doesn’t yet need refilled, which is also a problem familiar to the monks copying manuscripts in Gothic calligraphy
(that said, the mimi numinum writer is unambiguously fucking with us, same as the Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo writer and the Lion-Eating Poet writer, and with much the same sort of point to make to readers; the mimi numinum writer won that argument eventually, which we know because J and V are now written differently from I and U, and because lowercase i and j now have dots on top)
something similar is probably what’s going on in these probably-Chinese-calligraphy scribbles, since the brush also needs dipped in ink every so often; no idea what Doctor Textable thinks they’re doing, though























