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Handwriting Greek letters

Cifi

Handwriting Greek letters

Post by Cifi »

I started drawing greek letters on paper, which is probably a good thing especially for those which aren't shared between alphabets.

Duolingo has some exercises for this in the letter section, too, however they teach some in a way that isn't very intuitive to me, e.g. starting μ with a u shape, and doing the left downward slash afterward, or α with the circle-like shape first, while I would start at the upper right point (much like writing and ampersand).

Is this actually the way that Greek people would write the letters?

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Phil682961

Re: Handwriting Greek letters

Post by Phil682961 »

This page might be useful: https://www.foundalis.com/lan/hw/grkhandw.htm

Though I do recall we discussed this on the Duolingo forum, and not all of these are necessarily the most common way to write the letter.

Cifi

Re: Handwriting Greek letters

Post by Cifi »

Great, thank you, [mention]Phil682961[/mention]!

You probably don't happen to have a link to the old Duolingo discussion so I could access it in the hobune archive, do you?

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(If there are errors in what I'm writing in either language, please do correct me - I'll never take it as offense or something like that.)

Phil682961

Re: Handwriting Greek letters

Post by Phil682961 »

Cifi wrote: Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:48 am

Great, thank you, @Phil682961!

You probably don't happen to have a link to the old Duolingo discussion so I could access it in the hobune archive, do you?

Sadly I don't think it's in the archive. From my download of my Duo data, I found the IDs of the comments I made in that thread: they're 37328434 and 37328487. Hobune doesn't have those, but I'm posting them just in case you come across some other archive that has them.

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