Thread: How do you say "The sacrifice of hiding in a lie" in Russian?

да? нет? ;]

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(I have another post regarding what I wrote in the picture... just incase there are some out there who like to stay well informed)

It looks extremely beautiful and neat, but the letter "п" in the word "купаясь" and the letter "т" in the word "жертвую" are not correct. Also in the word "лжи" л usually is linked with the upper curve of ж, but I don't know, may be it's your own style)

"П" and "Т" look the same and both are not exactly right. Also "П" does not require a vertical dash above (such a dash is sometimes used above "Т" and below "Ш", but not with other letters).

"Л" in "лжи" misses its right "leg". The line that connects "л" and "ж" should not be smooth, it must consist of a little hook (right part of "л") and a curve that moves upward (left part of "ж"). Same happend to "ая" in "купаясь" - both letters lost their respective "legs" (there should be two little hooks meeting between them).

"Б" in "собой" looks unusual - more like a music note than a letter - but it can be attributed to your personal handwriting style, especially when the phrase looks so decorative.

Overall it looks nice and letters have a pleasant "round" look about them. Not bad at all.

EDIT: Oh, I think it was "кутаясь", not "купаясь". Then my notes about "п" do not apply.

The pic below is not an example of penmanship, but merely to illustrate some obvious mistakes:

Thank you BleuVert, gRomoZeka and Ramil!
You all were very helpful!

Can I ask two questions about this, please?

I seem to remember that you were supposed to put a little line above the "m" letter when I did this at school. But it was not in the examples when I refreshed my skills last year. I assumed that I remembered it wrong. But now I noticed that OceanEyes had used it in her example. How should this be done??

Is there a little "bump" before the letter "ж" in cursive? (seems like it, from Ramil's correction) I thought it was not needed for "ж"?

Originally Posted by Hanna

I seem to remember that you were supposed to put a little line above the "m" letter when I did this at school. But it was not in the examples when I refreshed my skills last year. I assumed that I remembered it wrong. But now I noticed that OceanEyes had used it in her example. How should this be done??

Both ways are correct. These lines (above т and below ш) are old norms, which help much to read the cursive, but they were almost always skipped in a hurry so they are removed even from the contemporary school standards.

Is there a little "bump" before the letter "ж" in cursive?

This "bump" is needed to separate letters (the same is between а-я in the first word). Л is ended by the line-up and Ж is started by the line-down, so here is the "bump".

Originally Posted by Hanna

I seem to remember that you were supposed to put a little line above the "m" letter when I did this at school. But it was not in the examples when I refreshed my skills last year. I assumed that I remembered it wrong. But now I noticed that OceanEyes had used it in her example. How should this be done??

When my friend was teaching me Russian cursive, she would always write out the Russian cursive "т" like a cursive "м" but with a line over it. You'll see the slight connection if you know what a capital cursive "т" looks like.
Regardless, it's about personal taste. I prefer the cursive "т" with the line over it instead of the normal cursive "т" that looks like an "m". :]