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In my experience, the Latin cursive that you may or may not have learned in an American classroom sucks. Common characters require too many strokes or raising t
by snovymgodym 3y ago
In my experience, the Latin cursive that you may or may not have learned in an American classroom sucks. Common characters require too many strokes or raising the pen. Having to dot your i's and cross your t's breaks the flow. Also lots of people can't even read it.
It was only when I learned Russian Cyrillic that I grew to appreciate a good cursive writing system. It's super fast, most characters resemble their printed counterpart, and lots of words can be written without needing to lift the pen once. Yes, there's some ambiguity like ли and ш, but that's rarely a problem once you actually know the language. In comparison to the English cursive I learned in school, it actually feels like a system intended to be read and written by regular people for everyday use.
- cko 3y agoTangentially, as a pharmacist I could always tell which doctors grew up in Russia. All of them have this nice loopy cursive way of writing.
- mnky9800n 3y agoWhat I like about russian cursive is that most letters terminate at the bottom instead of the top which means you don't need to cross over a letter or make some other mark that is messy to start the next letter.
- nhellman 3y agoTo me it feels like Cyrillic cursive has at least as many differences from its printed counterparts as Latin has. For example, д is written like a g, б kind of like a d, т like an m. The last one is especially confusing because м also exists.