• 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?

            • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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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.