Russian cursive

?!???

Wtf?

OMG - as if being Russian itself weren't enough.

It's a nice abstract sketch.

You first OP. Set the example for us.

R5 I'm not Russian, Oleg. Have some more Krokodil.

I imagine if you could speak Russian and could write it, reading the cursive form would come pretty easily.

Think back to your 2nd and 3rd grade lessons.

Hold my beer.

R8 those at least have distinct forms! Russian cursive is basically "uwvwuvwuvwuvwuwvuwvwu"

r8 is why China has "cursive dictionaries"

I love this phrase: "My dick was harder than Chinese arithmetic!"

r9 but the forms are often so different from the standard characters it's impossible to guess what they are without training

Here, read this dumbass:

Russians like r13 are so sensitive about their country looking bad. That article (obviously written by a Russian) even has this claim:

[quote]Psychologists claim that handwriting can be a psychological portrait of a person. Moreover, personal handwriting style starts to form at about the age of 9 or 10, therefore it is a good indicator of self-identity.

Total lack of self-awareness that this is trotted out to defend Russian cursive.

^^ Big idiot

I'm guessing r15's cursive is representative of his self identity of being a troll.

Dostoevsky's cursive writing:

Hmm, so much like Trump's signature.

Hmm, so much like Trump's signature.

I’m sure when one is perpetually drunk, aggressive, and living in post-Soviet squalor this writing would make total sense.

Yeah, maybe you have to be drunk to read it. Like the magic writing in Lord of the Rings where it only shows up under moonlight of a certain season.

Gasp!

I had no idea that all doctors are Russian.

I took a year of college level Russian and wrote in cursive (most of the other students printed—I was older and grew up using cursive in writing in English). I could read my own cursive Cyrillic, but not that of others. The Cyrillic alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet, so when I took Attic and Homeric Greek a few years later, I found it relatively easy to learn that alphabet. It’s been so long that I can read both Russian and Greek aloud, but usually only occasionally understand what I’m reading, like a Bar Mitzvah boy reading his Torah portion.

Those first examples are very poor handwriting and there may be something “off” with the writers. Good handwriting is still a mark of a cultured person in Russia and most people’s handwriting is perfectly legible.

Accusing Dump of knowing how to write in Russian is a bit much r20. Trump doesn't even know what year it is or the name of all his kids.