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The Cyrillic variant is almost a different set of characters! And the flowing into each other takes such an extreme there, that my last name is a nigh-illegible
by pavel_lishin 3y ago
The Cyrillic variant is almost a different set of characters! And the flowing into each other takes such an extreme there, that my last name is a nigh-illegible series of wavelets.
I have no idea how Russian, Ukrainian, etc., historians manage to read old Cyrillic documents.
- snovymgodym 3y agoHonestly, if you look at old German documents written in the Kurrent cursive system, it's about as bad. For the most part, it's just a matter practice and familiarity with the writing system. Лишин though, that's definitely a rough one.
- krab 3y agoThe latin cursive scripts differ country by country. And reading old letters, even if it's in my language, is very hard. The letters looked differently. A proficient writer would write them consistently but to read it, you're looking for "distinguishing traits", not for the letter shape as depicted to learners.