• WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    Yeah the part where the r is supposed to be is just not a letter. My r’s are more like if you cut the second half of the n off or if you took a v and just squished it together so it has no space in the middle

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      What you described isn’t a cursive “r” though. Here’s the cursive alphabet:

      The “r” there looks very similar to the second half of the “w” and the “i” of you don’t have a clear drop between the peaks in the “r”. The real issue IMO is there isn’t a clear drop between the “w” and the “i” to make it clear they’re separate letters.

      • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        2 days ago

        Your image is irrelevant as is the first part of your comment since this is the cursive we are taught.

        I do agree however that the way the word in the image is written is just wrong.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          2 days ago

          Why is that alphabet missing letters? There’s no q, w, x, or y. And you have a funky C and S. How would you write “wine” without a “w”?

          I’m starting to think that maybe this isn’t the English alphabet and doesn’t relate to the post at hand… 😉

          • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            2 days ago

            And yet it relates to the comments you made. I never would have gone looking for this image if you had just accelted the way I write my r’s. This image relates to a whole different discussion that appeared in the comments

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              edit-2
              2 days ago

              Sure. My point is that the say English speakers write cursive Rs is relevant to the image. How another language does it isn’t particularly relevant.

              What language is that BTW? It looks Slavic, but I can’t put my finger on which one it is.

              • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                2 days ago

                Yes the english way is different. I just showed how we are taught to write when you told me my way of writing r is not correct.

                It is Slovenian. But pretty much all the southern slavic languages write latin cursive the same way. (Of course they also have other letters but you get the point)

                • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  5
                  ·
                  2 days ago

                  That’s an interesting bit of trivia I’ll have to bring up with my Macedonian and Bosnian/Herzogovinian coworkers.

                  When writing English in cursive, would you adopt the English style or just add the English letters? Cursive is such a weird, niche thing that I find this difference completely fascinating.

                  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    3
                    ·
                    1 day ago

                    Well pretty sure serbian and croatian usw the same since when I looked for slovenian on duckduckgo it kept also giving me serbian resulta since some of the words are the same for my search term used.

                    When we started discussing cursive in like I think 3rd year of learning english we only added Q,W,Y,X and w is not really anything mindblowing. Also is there really any difference apart form the r?