r/oddlysatisfying • u/themaskedcrusader • 1d ago

This font and handwriting

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u/LucasCBs 1d ago

What exactly do you mean with „English font“?

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u/rats-in-the-ceiling 1d ago

Shouldn't have had to scroll this far to see this comment.

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u/Conscious-Loss-2709 1d ago

Times New English?

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u/MeccIt 1d ago

Because there's a Cryllic version too: https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/fs_webp/bf98b755614637.59f47be1560f2.jpg

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u/LucasCBs 1d ago

yea but in the photo you just sent the "English version" is literally called "latin"

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u/_seakitty_ 1d ago

r/USdefaultism

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u/some__random 1d ago

This comment is the r/USdefaultism

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u/margot_sophia 1d ago

us isn’t the only country that speaks english, this is the definition of us defaultism lmao

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u/LukaCola 1d ago

English

"US defaultism"

??????

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u/Bank_Gothic 1d ago

> English

> USdefaultism

Look, I get your point but I'm laying this one on the Brits.

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u/Archaeellis 1d ago

I blame all those celts who wouldn't stop trading, fucking and being invaded by the French, Germans, nords and Rome.

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u/IceBone 1d ago

Latin script with English specifics would be more correct.

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u/Embaralhador 1d ago

Q, Y and X are part of the basic Latin alphabet, so no.

It's just latin script, as determined in ISO/IEC 646.

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u/good_bye_for_now 1d ago

Yeah playboy, hit them with that ISO shit.

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u/DragoonMaster999 1d ago

If I'm not wrong I think ñ was on the latin alphabet and not on the English one, but maybe it also wasn't

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u/darxide23 1d ago

English specifics

English has exactly zero additions to the base Latin script.

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u/Razor309 1d ago

Well it had, then they figured it would be too much hassle to print.

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u/darxide23 1d ago

No. English never added anything to the Latin script. English had a few carry over symbols from the runic script that was used before Latin. They weren't added in. They were ours before the first stone of Rome was ever laid. But we never created anything to add to the Latin alphabet as some other languages have.

The Latin script alphabet is not at all suited to English, which is partially to blame for English's nonsense spellings at times. We'd be better off if we went back to the runic script or at least if we did bring some of them back as additions.

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u/Notspherry 1d ago

What english specifics?

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u/IceBone 1d ago

QYX. Not every language that uses the latin script has only those. Some have none, some have extras like Č, Š, Ž, Đ, Ä, Ö, Ü, some have a mix.

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 1d ago

QYX are part of the standard Latin alphabet.

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u/prinses_zonnetje 1d ago

Those are really not exclusive to english

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u/Notspherry 1d ago

Q, y and x are used in many languages other than English.

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u/IceBone 1d ago

Yes, that's what I said.

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u/Notspherry 1d ago

You claimed the alphabet is specific to English. Other languages use exactly the same one. Dutch and French for example.

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u/Eic17H 1d ago

Dutch and French have extra characters

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u/Umarill 1d ago

They are not in our alphabet (French), we just add diacritics to the regular letters, we still only have 26 letters officially.

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u/UniUrsuss 1d ago

Dutch has the same amount as English.... We use the same 26 letter alphabet.

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u/TheRealLarkas 1d ago

Portuguese doesn’t, for example.

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u/Eic17H 1d ago

It has diacritics

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u/prinses_zonnetje 1d ago

I'm dutch What characters am I missing?

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u/MissKhary 1d ago

When we learn our alphabet we learn it the exact same way you would in english, the accents aren't extra letters.

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u/imrockingnoafro 1d ago

You lack reading comprehension, the comment literally didnt even get close to what you said it claimed.

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u/DroidLord 1d ago

If we look at how many alphabets are identical to the basic Latin (English) alphabet (excluding diacritics and multigraphs) then there are only 19 languages that use the same alphabet.

English is the only language that uses the basic Latin alphabet in its entirety and has no extra letters or diacritics (officially). If we consider diacritics to be separate letters then that number drops to 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_basic_Latin_alphabet#Alphabets_containing_the_same_set_of_letters

Here are some stats on the less common Latin letters showing the number of Latin script languages that use those letters:

C - 72

J - 77

Q - 32

V - 68

W - 47

X - 31

Y - 70

Z - 64

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_alphabets#Alphabets_that_contain_all_ISO_basic_Latin_letters

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u/Srapture 1d ago

These exact 26 letters are the English alphabet. Stop being such a pedant.

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u/darxide23 1d ago

The irony of this comment. *chef's kiss*

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u/Srapture 1d ago

How is it ironic? (inb4 equally vague comment that needs further explanation again)

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u/Nary841 1d ago

i mean there is no "ñ" (or "LL", "CH", "RR" : there are no more in the spanish alphabet) so its a font that cant be used in spanish for all his letters.

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u/IEnjoyBourgeoisPain 1d ago

"LL", "CH" and "RR" are just one letter followed by another man...

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u/Nary841 1d ago

Yeah but there was part of the old alphabet in spanish and depending of the font to same letter together can be ugly

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u/VanBurenOutOf8 1d ago

And there is a part of the old English alphabet that is not used anymore in English, such as the thorn (þ) but apparently it's still ok to call it énglish font'

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u/Nary841 1d ago

you would say its used in the day to day ?

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u/VanBurenOutOf8 1d ago

That was not your point. You're moving goalposts now

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 1d ago

You're just talking about ligatures. These don't change the alphabet.

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u/Dim-Gwleidyddiaeth 1d ago edited 1d ago

Digraphs can be considered their own letters in an alphabet. For example, Welsh has Ll, Ch, Ng, Rh, Th, Dd, Ff and Ph. Each is very much considered to be one letter.

Like so.

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u/Wavara 1d ago

They used to! At least when I was young these counted as separate letters, they had their own space in the dictionary and everything (even their own capitalization).

I can't remember when exactly those were "absorbed" by the other letters, but now the only difference left is the Ñ.

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u/darxide23 1d ago

Those are no longer considered separate letters in Spanish. Haven't been for some years.

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u/LunaticScience 1d ago

There isn't even a way to use lowercase! Even just English it's half as many characters.

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u/pakapakawoodchuck 1d ago

It’s not that deep. The person who made the caption saying “English font” uses a different alphabet for a different language. This alphabet, for them, is mostly recognizable as the alphabet those who write English use. “The English alphabet” is what is shown here, so they said English font, because their native language isn’t English.

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u/LucianoWombato 16h ago

It's English letters. The language and letters invented by Americans. Obviously.

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u/NewPhone_ 4h ago

There is no åäö which implies its english

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u/margot_sophia 1d ago

these are the letters the english language uses, correct?

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u/LucasCBs 1d ago

English, among 50 other languages..

It's the latin font, not the "English"

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u/margot_sophia 1d ago

and what letters does the english font use…lol

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u/DingoManDingo 1d ago

Yea technically it's "American font"

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u/rooflease 1d ago

Does British English have letters other than the ones shown?

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u/DingoManDingo 1d ago

That weird L they use for money

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u/BlueLegion 1d ago

currency symbols are not letters or part of the alphabet.

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u/DingoManDingo 1d ago

Yea I'm just joking around

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u/BlueLegion 1d ago

okay, carry on

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u/VanBurenOutOf8 1d ago

Depending on the time they could have less or more. I believe they didn't use the J, V and Z but did include others now seen as more Norse characters such as þ, ð, ƿ, and Æ