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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€“] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Omitted is the capital Q that looks like a 2.

[โ€“] captain_aggravated 5 points 8 months ago

Go ahead and tell me that whole thing wasn't a direct result of early 20th century lead emissions.

[โ€“] Rez 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's there, almost all the way to the right, about 1/3 from the top.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yep! Now look for the capital J in the xkcd image, hehe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is, actually: far right, about 1/3 the way up, below the obvious Q.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I thought that was a lowercase f. Doesn't look anything like the cursive J we learned as kids.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Lowercase f is to the left of it for extra confusion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

My mum's name started with J, so I have seen that style of J often

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's the one next to the lowercase f, to the right of it

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don't think I've ever seen someone write a J with the top extending beyond the root. The inward curvature of the foot I think is because it loops around and connects with the ยซaยป afterwards (that connection is either very faint or not visible in the picture)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, cursive capital Q is supposed to start way down, so that it'd look like an O with a broken infinity symbol in its butt, like this:

The direction of the strokes in the image is not how I learned it, though. Stroke 1 for the capital starts where stroke 2 starts, but going clockwise until just past where it starts, then smoothly start the second stroke (same direction as shown in the image).

However, I can see how it can look like a more flowy 2 and how people can say "yeah, that's a capital Q." Heck, cursive lowercase r barely looks like an r but people kinda get it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps in your school. When I was in grade school learning cursive, the Q started high and looked like a 2.

I'm actually glad if they changed it.

These days, I avoid writing, but can do cursive, and will aim more for recognizable upper-case letters than standards.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh, yeah! It can vary from place to place and even from school to school even in the same place! There were even people saying that they can guess from which school someone graduated from based on how they do cursive. I think that's just nuts.

My cursive nowadays is just reserved for when Iโ€Œ really need to write fast, and would tend towards some kind of a personal shorthand than any sort of legibility. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not only did it look like a 2 when I learned it, there was a Ramona book where she liked the cursive Q because it looked like a 2.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

That's a different Q.

This Q really looks nearly identical to a 2. So, for many of us in 3rd grade, we wrote about the 2ueen who 2uestioned why ducks say 2uack. It was 2uite difficult.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Teacher took that poor catโ€™s head right off