Cursive Script

Gond · Post by **Gond** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:14 am

I noted, while looking at cursive script that in the sentence:

Ďitel?n mu cum p?n veaďen er m?san so Sannam.

The a's appear a lot of times with their final form while they are medial, so, why to do that? Just for being prettier? Or is this because people have different handwritting ways? I already tried to write it myself and it is a bit different, as I'm trying to follow the diagram....

Post by **zompist** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:07 pm

Basically, you use the medial forms when you're going to connect to the next letter; but you can choose not to do so for aesthetic reasons. If you look closely at the text, you'll notice final forms for ? and N used this way too.

If you were (say) taking notes at your University of Verduria lectures, aesthetics would matter less than speed, so you'd probably use the medial forms more.

Gond · Post by **Gond** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:50 pm

Oh, ok.

I was refering to final form a's, but I think I understood. That would be something fun, to be in the University of Verduria taking notes.

Serali · Post by **Serali** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:43 am

I like the cursive script for the Verdurian writing system. In that particular sample it looks like Arabic calligraphy.