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Weird letters
« on: September 26, 2014, 12:41:57 PM »
The lowercase J. I mean just look at this thing

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2014, 12:44:29 PM »
Capital Q. It's like an O but they gave it a tail, or made it a dude, or something.
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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2014, 12:48:29 PM »
Those are both fine letters, you guys are idiots.

What you need to look into (to begin with) is lowercase g.  I mean sometimes it's g somtimes it's g!  Mirror images almost!  :Wha:

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2014, 12:50:07 PM »
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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2014, 12:55:25 PM »
What's the deal with ash: æ?   What is this?  The Gotenks of letters?  Get out of here!

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2014, 12:59:02 PM »
capital cursive Z. get the eff outta here.


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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2014, 01:03:02 PM »
capital cursive Z. get the eff outta here.




Yeah that's pretty bad but that's more of a cursive sucks balls issue because Z is kind of studly IYAM

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2014, 01:04:02 PM »
i never learned how to write in cursive. my parents told me there would be computers where everyone would type so i didnt need to learn it.
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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2014, 01:04:25 PM »
so, like, all of the cursive letters are weird and pointless.
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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2014, 01:05:32 PM »
capital cursive Z. get the eff outta here.




Yeah that's pretty bad but that's more of a cursive sucks balls issue because Z is kind of studly IYAM


Actually my previous post makes me realize that Y is kind of weird.  Dumped late in the alphabet like an afterthought, considered to be a vowel only sometimes?  GTFOOMF, you're either a vowel 24/7 or you're not.

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2014, 01:05:53 PM »
capital cursive Z. get the eff outta here.



That's a Q

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2014, 01:07:16 PM »
What about Thorn þ?  This has been the source of confusion for centuries!  You used to abbreviate "The" with þe, but then people got lazy and didn't close their loops and it became: ye.  Now people think it means the old timey word "ye" (meaning you), but it's NOT it's THE!

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2014, 01:09:01 PM »
What about Thorn þ?  This has been the source of confusion for centuries!  You used to abbreviate "The" with þe, but then people got lazy and didn't close their loops and it became: ye.  Now people think it means the old timey word "ye" (meaning you), but it's NOT it's THE!

how do ye know what these things are called?

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2014, 01:25:29 PM »
Most of these:



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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2014, 01:28:31 PM »
a

it looks like E.T.


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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2014, 01:29:51 PM »
Typography Smack 2014

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2014, 02:21:19 PM »
Actually my previous post makes me realize that Y is kind of weird.  Dumped late in the alphabet like an afterthought, considered to be a vowel only sometimes?  GTFOOMF, you're either a vowel 24/7 or you're not.

just read the wikipedia history of the y thanks to your post.  fascinating.  linguistics is so interesting.
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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2014, 02:32:41 PM »
mrs. dave writes in cursive. it's infuriating. nobody left on this planet under the age of 75 can read that nonsense.

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2014, 02:56:33 PM »
I don't have any trouble recognizing any of those letters. The real weird ones are in the East Asian languages. Those aren't even letters. They're just lines and shapes and crap.

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2014, 03:04:20 PM »
I've noticed the christmas/birthday/how are you doing card is sorta the last bastion of american cursive. There's my grandma's super cute old-timey version of cursive, but even my 40-something relatives write in shitty cursive in their cards. Weird.

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2014, 03:54:06 PM »
sometime in the late 80's Americans said enough with this rough ridin' cursive nonsense.

If I wrote in cursive it would look like someone with frying pans for hands wrote it.
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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2014, 04:34:31 PM »
When you see a cursive letter, you know it's a letter. When you see East Asian writing, you have no idea what the eff you're looking at. It's just a bunch of lines.

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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2014, 04:54:34 PM »
I feel fancy when i write in cursive.
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Re: Weird letters
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2014, 05:34:55 PM »
I use a print/cursive hybrid that absolutely no one can read
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