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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's called writing garlands and is a mess for obvious reasons.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah it makes it look like russian cyrilic cursive. That one actually is supposed to have more letters look that way.

Or the Serbian one.

That is the word for paté. The letters with lines over them sound completely different as well.

Like this

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fortunately, my russian teacher wrote "normally", while I had to deal with basically this mess in German, where you only could separate the u from the n and the w from the m by the lines below the u and w.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's a feature of a very old German hand writing style that hasn't been used much since WWII

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Yet, Sütterlin looks different, as it often has vertical and diagonal straight lines where Latin script has round shapes. But likewise, it's difficult to read.