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Day: July 2, 2016
What is one random thing you like about Albania?
The way familiar words (Greek or Turkish) look in Albanian. xham. suxhuk. trëndafill. And the word you just gave me: sufllaqe. Answered 2016-07-02 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-is-one-random-thing-you-like-about-Albania/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]
Does an equivalent of cursive exist in other alphabets?
Greek: there was a cursive modelled after Western cursive in the 19th/20th century. It fell out of use long before computers (I was never taught it in school); I have seen it in letters from the 50s. The main differences to what you might expect: kappa looking like a <u>; pi as an omega with […]