#cursive script

[ayanathedork]

my beautiful friend who has all the drawing ideas to keep me going <3

[petrarchesco]

"if Petrarca was alive today he would have a podcast wouldn't he" said @apis-vergilii, and this simply popped up in my mind

[skunkes]

i like that there's nothing there

[lilac-dreamxxz]

hii can u do just the full alphabet of cursive capital and lowercase letters? thank u love 🎀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 𝓐 𝓑 𝓒 𝓓 𝓔 𝓕 𝓖 𝓗

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀𝓘 𝓙 𝓚 𝓛 𝓜 𝓝 𝓞 𝓟 𝓠

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝓡 𝓢 𝓣 𝓤 𝓥 𝓦 𝓧 𝓨 𝓧

⠀⠀𝓪 𝓫 𝓬 𝓭 𝓮 𝓯 𝓰 𝓱 𝓲 ���� 𝓴 𝓵 𝓶 𝓷 𝓸 𝓹 𝓺 𝓻 𝓼 𝓽 𝓾 𝓿 𝔀 𝔁 𝔂 𝔃

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[nixotinix]

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don't have much to add here other than i had a lot of fun with this page. thinking up gerald crane's evildoings is always fun and i get to do a lot of that for DMPH.

oh and i made a playlist for DMPH :) nothing extravagant, just a few songs i like that have The Vibes.

any interaction is greatly appreciated <33

[hyperpotamianarch]

So, I have probably offhandedly mentioned in the past that Ashkenazi and Sepharadi Jews had a lot of mutual influence on each other through the generations. If I didn't mention that - well, now you know. Usually, my focus for such topics is religious and halachic discussion - so you'll see me talk about Ramban and Rashba studying from the Tosafot writers, or the rabbis of Provence's admiration of Rambam - which they shared with Yemenite Jews, even if the latter group was more isolated and thus thiks influence was more pronounced. Alternatively, I could talk about Ibn Ezra's tendency to travel, and how he always corresponds with Rashi in his commentary on the Torah.

Today, however, I would like to talk about the handwriting system. You see, most every Israeli knows how to write the Hebrew so-called cursive. And while it's mostly prevalent among religious Jews, the Rashi script is known and can be readable. Why am I mentioning them side by side, you ask? Well, that's very simple. Both are handwriting scripts, for different communities: the Rashi script, despite its name, is the Sepharadi (or perhaps Italian? Though a Yemenite friend of mine writes in it as well) one, and the modern Hebrew "cursive" is the Ashkenazi one. I suppose that's kind of Ashkenormativity, but I'm not so sure of that - because of the next part. You see, the Rashi script got its name for a reason.

Sure, the reason's no mystery. Everyone can tell you that Rashi is written in the Rashi script. Some can even tell you that nearly all old books are written in this script - regardless of whether or not they're Sepharadi books. I honestly don't have anything grand to say here - it's simply that the first Hebrew printing presses were in Spain and Italy, and that some of the Italian Hebrew publishers were running away from the Alhambra decree, meaning they were also Sepharadi. When they wanted to differentiate the commentary from the body of the text, they used their handwriting, which had nothing to do with Rashi's handwriting. Heck, I've lately seen a manuscript written by Rambam himself during a tour in the Israeli National Library, and it was written in this script. That doesn't prove anything about Rashi, but I don't think we have his handwriting and this is enough evidence that "Cətav Rambam" is a more appropriate name for this script. Oh, and considering in Kafka's time there was no one to regulate which handwriting was used - while this is very late in relation to everything else, this post that circulated lately with his handwriting is in some degree proof that modern Hebrew "cursive" is the Ashkenazi handwriting. If an expert on manuscript pops up here and mentions old Ashkenazi manuscripts with this script it'd be great

So, yeah. That's it. Don't know how interesting this post is. Thank you for reading and everything! I totally wasn't pushed to write this after seeing Kalonymus' book in Otzar HaḤochma written in the Sepharadi handwriting! Not that it matters, since Kalonymus was well travelled and a language scholar so he/she might've known multiple scripts, or he may have written in a special Provençal script I don't know of.

[andromedaexists]

i'm trying to gather fonts for the recipes in D'Jeet? WIP and my cover artist made me question some things so now i need y'all to answer me a question:

[americaisdead]

wilcox, arizona. september 2023

© tag christof

[museenkuss]

Taking reading notes by hand for the first time in forever and being hit once again by the problem of legibility vs fast writing.

[zahri-melitor]

This is not news, and I did suspect I'd feel this way, but Chip Zdarsky's Batman: The Knight is wonderful so far and pulling on all the vibes I want to see in a world-travel prequel, as Zdarsky's mined them out of a lot of the same places I also saw potential narratives.

[unionizedwizard]

the first time i really experienced the "oh i am getting old huh" phenomenon, i was 21 & tutoring this lovely little 5th grader living down the street - i was helping with her homework and i noticed her handwriting. i went like "oh, they let you write in script at school now?" "what do you mean?" "well back in my day you would get in big, big trouble if you used anything else than cursive handwriting" "what's a "cursive"?". turns out she wasn't taught cursive at all!

which is wild because, like, not only were we not taught script at all, but teachers acted as though using script was some kind of nefarious deviant behavior. i had this friend in 4th grade who kept getting in HUGE trouble all the time because she wouldnt use cursive at all, like, they called her parents and threatened to have her expelled iirc. this was in the mid 2000's lmao

there was a classist element to it - i noticed that teachers were more likely to assume a student was smart and be more magnanimous in their grading if the student used cursive rather than script (which was considered childish, vulgar, and sometimes girly (derogatory)), used a fountain pen rather than ballpoint, and (sometimes, not always) black ink instead of blue (all other colors were generally banned for graded essays but i got away with using brown ink. i used a calligraphy fountain pen though which helped), though sometimes it was the opposite and black ink was banned with only blue ink allowed (go figure). often teachers would explain these rules to us, proudly even (?). the kind of "girly half-cursive/half-script" with curly letters & tiny hearts dotting the i's was also frowned upon and considered vulgar and a mark of stupidity

i'm glad this is changing at the very least but :( cursive is such a good tool tbh it has so much personality also & nothing is more appropriate for fountain pen use than cursive, so i'm sad this is seemingly disappearing...

[ispyspookymansion]

my parents got little metal baby shoe ornaments for my brother and i for when we each had our first christmas and they’re engraved with our first and middle names and our years of birth….this year my mom said that they actually have a blank one because they thought they might have three kids, and would i like it engraved to say my current name instead? and of course i said yes and so she practiced engraving HERSELF on tin cans and then carefully engraved that name on the sole of the blank shoe ornament and now thats the one that goes on our tree…….so so small and something i never would have been upset about them not doing but i actually feel very insanely held by it you know?

[jaxriley13]

Had to see this in calligraphy. Thank you @draculastoothbrush for posting it.

[lvmimis]

so the wind breaker guys all seem to have coin purses that are uniquely described, so if you had the opportunity to offer them a new one, what little design or trinket would you add to it?

[plushpuppyy]