Thread: What means the reverse standing v ?

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I regular,also on Russian tv, I see a V but on its head kind of like ^, but a V. I do not know which letter it in Russian means in Western letter.
I am on vacation till the 12 of October, so I'll not read your answer probably sooner.
Spasibo,

Крис.

I may be wrong, but I think you're talking about the letter Л.

Hi:

That could be,I just started a few days ago studying Russian,so I cannot figure out if it represents л. Besides that, words or sentences are going fast,because it is on Russian TV that I've seen it.
Спасибо, пока,

Крис.

Yes, in some fonts the letter л looks more like /\. Also, sometimes the letter т looks like m and the letter д looks like g.

I learned this by taking a trip to the Tomb of... Lenin!!!!

I think that it depends whether or not you're writing with cursive or not, right? When using cursive, T is like m, and so on.
~jessi

Yeah, it comes from cursive. You write Л like and upside down V, and T looks like m, etc etc...

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Yeah, it comes from cursive. You write Л like and upside down V, and T looks like m, etc etc...

I understand writing the Л like an upsidedown V, and writing a и like a lowercase u. But I don't understand the t to an m thing.

Heres a link to a picture with the written script... you should see what we mean:

http://www.learningrussian.com/img/hand ... phabet.jpg

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Heres a link to a picture with the written script... you should see what we mean:

http://www.learningrussian.com/img/hand ... phabet.jpg

Sorry, I wasn't clear as to what I meant. I do understand HOW the letters are written. I just don't understand WHY they're written that way. (It was really a rhetorical comment.)

Oh, hehe... can't help you there. Maybe the come from Old Church Slavonic or something like that?

1. Cursive is beautiful.
2. Cursive is the time-conscious thing for the Russian hand-writing.

MHO.

Originally Posted by Darobat

Yes, in some fonts the letter л looks more like /\. Also, sometimes the letter т looks like m and the letter д looks like g.

Spasibo, I'll remember the others you mention too,thanks.

Yeah, the whole "t" to "m" thing, I don't really get, either, and it took me a while to be able to read in cursive mostly because of it. I always put the "hat" on it, though, and it makes it easier to read... Perhaps if you look at a capital "T" in Russian script, it will make it a little clearer as to why the small "t" looks like an "m"... It looks like a fancy "T" in English cursive, but you can see where the "m" shape comes from as a result. Or maybe I just haven't had my coffee yet this morning. I'll go get some, and take another look!

-Fantom

If you get good at cursive its faster to just write m than it is to make a T and then pick up your pencil and cross the top of it. Insteadu just squigle an M and u got it made.

Pardon my ignorance, but is there a site which tells you have to write in script. I've seen examples of script writting, but I don't really know how to make the strokes so that I can recreate it while I'm writing. Can anyone help?

I've had several times, when writing capital "N" in english, I write "H" instead. It also sometimes happens with "d" being written as "g" and "t" being written as "m."

I sort of write with half-print, half-cursive.