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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] 64 points 5 months ago (5 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

So Donald Trump has been signing his name in Russian this whole time? It all makes sense now!

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember coming across a similar comment chain, and someone brought out cursive Hanzi, and everyone lost their minds.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I am going to show this to my Chinese teacher to see if it's in any way legible. Because honestly, I can't see that being readable by anybody.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

this feels like a shitpost and i wont fully believe it until - i dunno when.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

No, that's true. However, putting lines under e.g. the ัˆ makes it a bit more readable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cyrilic cursive uses dashes in the same way Latin uses dots. Try writing "minimum' without them, and you'll get the same results.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the first I'm hearing about dashes. What do you mean?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

You know how ะธ and ะฟ have the same shape, but ะฟ has a dash on top? You can put the dash on the bottom to easily differentiate ะธ and ัˆ from ะผ and ะป.