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

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". :]