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Asian scripts (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by zedgeist@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Correspondence with European scripts:

the OG Latin and block letter Cyrillic are like like katakana (sharp, stabby letters)
Greek is like hiragana (loopy, adorable letters)
the "weird" Latin we use today is like Burmese, except sideways (butts everywhere)
cursive Cyrillic is like Mongolian, except the rain is over (the knives are poking into the ground)

Devanagari has no European equivalent because Devanagari is perfect, since it's used to write Sanskrit and Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Except of ULTRAFRENCH of course.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

runes are just crows walking in snow

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