My goodness, I love how for the M N and Us they just barely connect to neighbors to unambiguously form the correct letter. Diabolical.
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!
Gotta dot your i’s
Also actual gothic script provides tiny clues, ligatures, that make it slightly easier to read.
I just recently learned that this is the historical reason why eyes have dots.
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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