• Routhinator@startrek.website
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      1 month ago

      Ah interesting context, thanks for sharing!

      This does make me curious though… how do these languages refer to cursive handwriting vs italicised font?

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        1 month ago

        Looking at Wikipedia, besides the languages calling it cursive it seems there are two camps:

        • Germanic languages seem to call it “Writing letters/style” (German: Schreibschrift, Danish: Skråskrift, Dutch: Schrijfletter, Swedish: Skrivstil)
        • Romance languages seem to call it “cursive script” instead of just “cursive” (French: Écriture cursive, Italian: Scrittura corsiva, Portuguese: Letra cursiva)

        Interestingly Italian calls italics “corsivo” and cursive “Scrittura corsiva” so the Wikipedia page for either has a disambiguation link to the other.