24.3.07

Cyriggles

Somewhere I once saw a list of a few words that when written in Ukrainian (or some related language) cursive looked like a bunch of repeating squiggles. Perhaps my non-technical explanation suggests that examples would be better. I can't find it again, or remember any, but the ones I can produce would look something like this:
мили (washed, plural subject)
мити (to wash)
пити (to drink)
пиши (he writes)
You'll have to pretend that the characters are tied together. In that form they really do look just like a bunch of little lines. Basically any sequence that contains only и л м п т ц ш щ, й і ї if you include diacritics. You could probably even have something like *шишкебаб (for shish-kebab) which even not linked looks unusual. Maybe one day the list will make itself apparent.

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