It’s a fence.
This is apparently why some modern words like love or come are spelled with an o instead of a u. The o is much easier to read when followed by a v, n, or m, so the scribes changed it sometimes and the spelling stuck.
I’ll take this to be canon without protest.
It’s called a scribal O and it is absolutely true.
Thanks, I just looked into this. Neat!
My goodness, I love how for the M N and Us they just barely connect to neighbors to unambiguously form the correct letter. Diabolical.
Shit, I hadn’t even noticed that. I just assumed those were identical.
Gotta dot your i’s
Also actual gothic script provides tiny clues, ligatures, that make it slightly easier to read.
miuinunu?
thats actually kinda crazy how much more readable that makes it
…still not super easy tho lol
As the other user said, my example is (still) not a written one.
I think gothic script developed because of the writing implements they used, but the wirter had lots of possibilities to make it unambiguous.
That’s not really how people wrote, that’s still made to confuse the reader.
here’s an example
Noone would have written like that. That is a printing typeface. Handwritten fraktur is very different. Anyway the writing in OPs picture is medieval, while the printing typeface is obviously early modern, 17th-19th cenutry.
I know, but it’s hard to find a good example with exactly that text. And I have no clue where I’ve hidden my calligraphy stuff. At least it doesn’t contain a lowercase s, so it should be somewhat fine.
And I have no clue where I’ve hidden my calligraphy stuf
Le excuse maxima
What’d you need “calligraphy stuff” for?
I really haven’t written jack shit in years except on digital so excuse the shittiness but I think that shittiness makes it a rather good example of casual writing.
Now what exactly does this prove? That a non historic writing utensil in a completely different typeface doesn’t look at all like Fraktur? I mean, yes, you’re right.
I just recently learned that this is the historical reason why eyes have dots.
naı reallι
a𐌉 dont
minimum
mini mum
Feivel
Russian cursive enters the chat (link is xcancel, mind you)
corporate needs you to tell the difference between these two pictures :
arabic.jpg
cyrillicCursive.jpgThey’re the same picture
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