• @Magister
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    14 hours ago

    You mean, you cannot read cursive? I’m not even english native speaker and can read this easily, interesting

    EDIT: ok I’m not english native, I didn’t want to offense anyone, I’m just an old coot who learnt cursive and only cursive at school in the 70s. I don’t know how to write with “block letters”

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 hours ago

      I am an even older fart, and I TAUGHT cursive. The only “cursive” here is the angry scrawl of someone who’d prefer to be cursing.

      Look, for example, at the word immediately after HOLY MONTH. The closest correct cursive letters to fit the scrawl are:

      “itreit”.

      It’s only by context, and allowing for the angry misplacement of the tittle, that we can read it as “that.”

    • @[email protected]
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      6920 hours ago

      I’m an English speaker (mother tounge), I can read cursive. That is atrocious hand writing. I say this as a person with terrible hand writing.

      • @[email protected]
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        919 hours ago

        I can’t write in cursive, but even I can write better cursive than that, with my foot.

        • @P00ptart
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          518 hours ago

          Remember that they’re writing on a paper taped to a window, not sitting at a desk.

          • @[email protected]
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            315 hours ago

            Remember that they knew it was paper taped to a window when they made the attempt.

            Who forced them to write quickly?

    • @XeroxCool
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      1015 hours ago

      This isn’t cursive so much as it’s dragged manuscript. Keep in mind there’s no single group of characters in cursive. There’s variations. Capital F is the whole reason I quit cursive. Some do a backwards print F, some do it like the Friendly’s restaraunt chain.

      Regardless, here’s what I couldn’t read accurately that buried the message: fasting, that, climbing, mountain.

    • @RampantParanoia2365
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      1216 hours ago

      I can read cursive just fine. I can’t make out this note.

    • @[email protected]
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      515 hours ago

      …that’s not cursive? Like, there’s 3 or 4 actual cursive letters in there, the rest is sloppy print

    • Eager Eagle
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      1920 hours ago

      I can read it when the other person can write it

    • @[email protected]
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      1420 hours ago

      Many people can not, it’s not taught like it used to be. This however is a mix of sloppy cursive and simply not lifting the pen. Also the case of some letters are shifted. While I read the message correctly, it didn’t have context until reading other comments and I wasn’t sure I had it correct .

      Hozy monizH

      • @Magister
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        214 hours ago

        true! old coot here!