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I’ll forever be amused at the Russian word “deprived” (лишили) in cursive, which looks...

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Russian handwriting

I’ll forever be amused at the Russian word “deprived” (лишили) in cursive, which looks like

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for people wondering how the hell that works

I still don’t know how the hell that works.

See, to me it looks a lot like ‘minimum’ in English cursive:

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Ok not so bad right? But it gets worse…

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Like… what even is this?

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Can’t tell me that’s a word right? But it is! Sure you could dot the i’s, but would it really help?

source here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Handwriting/comments/1hgsc8/write_minimum_in_cursive_without_dotting_the_is/

Yes. Yes it would.

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Wikipedia: Minim (palaeography)

Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this

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