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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
CelloMomOnCars ("CelloMom On Cars") wrote:
"Latin letters do not hold hands. Arabic letters do.
To understand why every machine since Gutenberg has wrestled this script and mostly lost, you need one structural fact: Arabic is cursive always."
This piece is an exhilarating, eye-opening, outrageous, and very funny tale of the difference between latin letters and Arabic letters, and why printing presses and screen renderers have such a hard time with it.