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I just find it funny that western Europeans can't tell the difference between Cyrillic writing and random gibberish. By which I genuinely don't mean anything pe
by simonh 5y ago
I just find it funny that western Europeans can't tell the difference between Cyrillic writing and random gibberish. By which I genuinely don't mean anything pejorative, in either direction.
- kergonath 5y agoDo you mean printed, or handwritten? Because Sütterlin looks like gibberish to most Europeans. And it is just the standard Latin alphabet, give or take. It looks like some kind of letters, but they could be from the Voynich manuscript and they would still be as understandable. In print, it’s partly because several letters are deceptive and don’t sound anything like the closest-looking ones in the Latin alphabet. Some others are just plain weird-looking if you are not familiar with the alphabet already.
- WalterBright 5y ago> Sütterlin I figured that the way to keep one's personal communications private is to handwrite them in Sütterlin.
- coldacid 5y agoIt doesn't help that the cursive Cyrillic T looks like a Latin M.