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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] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Idk about "very" apparent, though.

I'm Finnish and we have much the same alphabet, and our cursive is derived from the same as the Swedish one, which is Neo-Gothic cursive, which does do the X from top down, as do we Finns.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg/300px-D%27Nealian_Cursive.svg.png

I did check the Swedish one and it is weird you do it differently.

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

But how do you you even write it when starting top left? Do you just write it as a backslash and then go back and add the second stroke once the word is finished? Or do you do some convoluted thing where you go in every direction while perfectly retracing your old strokes, to draw the whole thing in one go?

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

Same as with dotting i's or crossing t's, really.

I often found that pictures speak louder than words, and it's pictured in my earlier link.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Okay. And yeah, now that you mention it, I see that there are some tiny symbols there. ๐Ÿ˜… It's funny how every time I hear about cursive writing online it always sounds as if it's one single thing that's the same everywhere, but it isn't. Oh, and also in our cursive, we don't go back to cross t's, because that's part of the character from the beginning.