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[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

I can't remember where, but I came across an instance of the letter д written to look like the Greek letter "delta" — just a triangle. Is this a legible way to write a д?

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[oblomov-jerusal.livejournal.com]

I think it was a deliberate attempt to produce script looking like Greek.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

Damn. Л and Д are the two letters that I find it hardest to write.

[http://users.livejournal.com/celsium_/]

It's just fa peсuliarity jf a handwriting.

[nxx.livejournal.com]

I'm Russian and I use the Latin "D" instead of "Д" (which I hate).
The small "д" looks exactly like the Latin "g".

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

No, it is not. In Russian handwritten cursive, though, you can write the capital Д exacltly like Latin capital D, and the ordinary "d" exactly like Latin "g", and it's fully legible.

[rednameless.livejournal.com]

You can write "л" like this - /\. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_beast/]

i would go as far as to say that you can write Д as a sort-of-triangle-thing, whose bottom line extends a little on both sides. any russian will understand that.

[kart.livejournal.com]

Well, the triangle style Д is recognizable but it's not 100% proper. Still probably better than using 4 for Ч though.

For written/cursive handwriting, use D and g. For people like me who have horrible handwriting, i try make little serif-things at the bottom, or else i write horribly in cursive so that all my м's л's and и's run together.

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

Some Cyrillic fonts have a very triangular д. This may be what you're thinking of.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, it's not? It's perfectly legible! (And tiger, I think you meant legitimate)

I've seen Russians write their д's as Δ's and л's like Λ's, as a matter of fact there are fonts that support this sort of... mutation (?). Besides, if you were to be forced to write in print, would you go through the intricacies of д? Seriously, it takes me about a good 5 seconds to write it as opposed to Δ.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

Heh. I sort of cheat and write something like a л and then draw a line through the bottom.

[oryx_and_crake]

Well, л should be written like /\ (what other way of writing it can you suggest?)

But I have never seen a д written as Δ.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

We are talking about script/print, right? When one personally writes (and decides not to write in cursive), have you never seen, for example, СΔЕΛАЮ? Especially on like, protesting signs or whatnot?

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

(And if you're referring to me with the ‘tiger’ comment, no, I meant ‘legible’ — as in ‘able to be read’.)

[oryx_and_crake]

Never. The upper part of this letter can be like a triangle, yes, but there are always two "bent legs" protruding below. Maybe you just did not notice them. Or maybe this was just some person's individual way of writing it. All I want to say is that this way of writing д is not very common.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

Do you write the other letters in script? For example, т like т?

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have trouble with my чs, иs, and лs running together in cursive.

[ekeme-ndiba.livejournal.com]

The legible way is triangular "d", but with descenders on both sides. Also, triangular "l" is 100% legible and even preferred in some cases to avoid ambiguity with "p". Personally, I hate "default" "p"-like "l".

[schwarzer-tod.livejournal.com]

I don't get it; are you some kind of troll that never trolls? Or is this like, the LJ account you use at work?

?!

[ekeme-ndiba.livejournal.com]

First of all, I find this question totally irrelevant. Second, all kinds of net subculture and especially net exhibitionism (such as goddamned FIDO, LiveJournal etc.) make me sick, so I don't even know what your terminology means.
To make things clear, if I get you right, the only purpose of my account is trying to help people in several discussion forums, that's all.

[schwarzer-tod.livejournal.com]

Your user info is "The niggers that arrive with hogs attack dogs to say niggers are down to die with motherfucker" and you have no entries, not even a "I don't like writing in a journal, so there's nothing here." You cannot possibly be offended should someone ask, "Heh... what manner of troll is this...?" (a troll being a fake journal usually used to start drama). But you don't seem to do that. You're actually very helpful. So I asked you (in a roundabout way), What are you all about?

[hopeinagpa.livejournal.com]

uh, it's just what?...translation please?

[http://users.livejournal.com/celsium_/]

"It's just a peсuliarity of a handwriting."
sorry, misprint.
I often mix russian and english keys.))))))

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Which reads:
When they make me print, then print is what I do. But for me it's both faster and more convenient to write in handscript cursive.
:)
Yup, a Л like a lambda is OK, but we are taught in schools to keep the lower legs of Д, Ц, Щ. Those last two are unrecognizable without it, after all. Though in Russian the print is more individual than the handscript. This is because we are taught to write in handscript cursive BEFORE printing, using so-called пропись, a special exercise book with pre-printed samples of "correct" cursive handscript. There is no пропись for printing, though.

[hopeinagpa.livejournal.com]

a ha. no problemo. It happens. Thanks.

[vypejvina.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's perfectly legible. I use greek delta looking capital 'Д' in my script writing (with no descenders). No one ever questioned.