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https://xkcd.com/2912 Alt text: 𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThey’re all easy to read when you know cursive.
minus-square𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoExactly. Randall Munroe turns 40 before the end of this year. Scraping the bottom of the barrel, I guess?
minus-squareUsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoinsert language is easy to read when you know insert language I think part of the problem lies in how cursive directly derived from print letters so shit like S, Z, and r makes you wonder who came up with this.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoWhen you know the right cursive. We used slightly clearer letter shapes in Australia in the 80s Though knowing any cursive makes it easier to decode unfamiliar ones
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoMachine coding is also easy to read if you know binary Good thing it is the 21st century where those things aren’t needed anymore
They’re all easy to read when you know cursive.
Exactly. Randall Munroe turns 40 before the end of this year.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel, I guess?
insert language is easy to read when you know insert language
I think part of the problem lies in how cursive directly derived from print letters so shit like S, Z, and r makes you wonder who came up with this.
When you know the right cursive. We used slightly clearer letter shapes in Australia in the 80s
Though knowing any cursive makes it easier to decode unfamiliar ones
Machine coding is also easy to read if you know binary
Good thing it is the 21st century where those things aren’t needed anymore