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๐“˜ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฒ๐“ท๐“ด ๐“ฌ๐“ช๐“น๐“ฒ๐“ฝ๐“ช๐“ต ๐“› ๐“ฒ๐“ผ ๐“น๐“ป๐“ธ๐“ซ๐“ช๐“ซ๐“ต๐”‚ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ ๐“ถ๐“ธ๐“ผ๐“ฝ ๐“ฏ๐“พ๐“ท ๐“ฝ๐“ธ ๐”€๐“ป๐“ฒ๐“ฝ๐“ฎ, ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ฐ๐“ฑ ๐“ต๐“ธ๐”€๐“ฎ๐“ป๐“ฌ๐“ช๐“ผ๐“ฎ ๐“บ ๐“ฒ๐“ผ ๐“ช๐“ต๐“ผ๐“ธ ๐“ช ๐“ผ๐“ฝ๐“ป๐“ธ๐“ท๐“ฐ ๐“ฌ๐“ธ๐“ท๐“ฝ๐“ฎ๐“ท๐“ญ๐“ฎ๐“ป.

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[โ€“] garzaza77@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

what the hell is cursive?!

[โ€“] GuitarAbuser@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

It is the way of typing in the pic

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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Rirruto?"

"Those are Z's"

"Well they look like R's to me."

"That's not fair! Rizzuto's not even a word, he's a baseball player! I hate school! I'm never coming back!"

[โ€“] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Would you like to try the word "buzz"?

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

They're all easy to read when you know cursive.

[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

When you know the right cursive. We used slightly clearer letter shapes in Australia in the 80s

Though knowing any cursive makes it easier to decode unfamiliar ones

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[โ€“] Ilflish@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Cursive f is actually way to high the whole point of cursive is to learn to write fast and cursive f is slower. I'm sure a large amount of people aren't even aware it's an f ( the middle right two)

[โ€“] Jorgelino@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

It's really no more time consuming than any other letter. It might look a bit bigger, bit it's just two loops, which is a very quick and natural movement that you'll be doing a lot if you write in cursive.

It's more about following the flow of the lines than the size of the letters. Each letter should feed into the next one, so you'll barely need to take your hand off the paper for the same word. Even if you choose to make an especially "high f", that'd still take less than a second of you know what you're doing.

(Also, as has already been pointed out, second one is a J)

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