1826: Confusing Cyrillic Cursive Dec 15, 2019

Cyrillic cursive, known in Russian as 'rukopísny shrift' (рукопи́сный шрифт) is simply the handwritten form of the Cyrillic alphabet, designed to make writing faster and more fluid, as with any handwritten writing system. However, a noted problem is that the letters и, л, м, ш, щ, ы can all be made entirely or partly using an element that looks the same as a Greek ι, in certain combinations. This means certain words are completely ambiguous without knowledge of the language, or other context. For instance, мщу (I avenge) лицу (face, in dative) are written completely the same way.

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