Comment on Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"?

Shanedino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Must make it challenging to express “uwu.”

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    UuuU

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Zoidberg!

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh you’re gonna love learning how to write Russian cursive.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m going to?

      It’s not impossible, but I don’t really plan to have to.

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      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        C’mon comrade, be a good sport. It’s a long train journey to gulag.

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  • trainden@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    𝓊𝓌𝓊 :3

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s how you write it in cursive. You know for us that are old enough to remember what cursive was.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “uu” ends on a down stroke. W ends on an upstroke, just like the difference between u and v.

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whats the keyboard shortcut for that?

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not just cursive; lower case “W” is often written uu. It just depends on the style of the writer.

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you mean “old enough to remember what cursive was”

    How else are people writing

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Print, because we use ballpoints instead of fountain pens, unlike a Luddite.

      Part of the reason cursive was dropped is that ballpoints require more hand pressure to write with- you’re gouging the paper to make the little ball roll.

      Ballpoint pens are neater and simply better in most respects. The smooth gliding action in a fountain makes cursive easy, fast and with practice, elegant.

      But you can’t do that for as long with print characters- it’ll cause hand cramps after a while.

      Which, also, we now type or tap out our documents with print being adequate for everything except… uh… artistic expression?

      Schools only have so much time to teach, including yet another form of handwriting means excluding other things.

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      • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cursive was dropped because everyone uses computers and phones now, almost nobody bothers to write with a pen at all beyond signing their name on government or corporate documents

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      • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It may be a country difference

        Schools still teach cursive in mine

        Schools in my country also recommend not using ballpoint pens

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    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t remember the last time I wrote anything by hand tbh

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