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I was expecting it to be a Russian acronym starting with the letter Я which is pronounced Ya. It acquired its backward R glyph when it was changed from an old S
by mikrl 2y ago
I was expecting it to be a Russian acronym starting with the letter Я which is pronounced Ya. It acquired its backward R glyph when it was changed from an old Slavic letter I cannot draw.
- deaddodo 2y agoWhat do you mean that you "cannot draw" them? This is a digital medium and both (well one, the other is half supported) variants are valid Unicode glyphs: ꙗ / Ѧ Or do you mean you literally can't draw them?
- Tade0 2y agoIt's an idiomatic expression in slavic languages, indicating that the shape is particularly complex.
- deaddodo 2y agoI'm pretty sure that it's an idiomatic phrase in any language for that.
- mikrl 2y agoI could not reproduce it by hand without a reference nor do I have a keyboard installed which offers it as a symbol, nor was I going to look it up to add the spice to a shower thought tier HN comment. I see you have provided it, making it more accessible for my future use, at least on the timeframe of this thread being in my recent HN activity.