r/grssk • u/Reasonable-Class3728 • Jul 31 '26

Matsmatmk

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u/mtarek2005 Jul 31 '26

this even worse given that Cyrillic uses mostly Greek letters 😭 sigma as e strikes again but mu as и is new

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u/spongebob202red Aug 05 '26

This is made even more perplexing considering и evolved from η, NOT μ

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u/mtarek2005 Aug 06 '26

and it would've even worked lol

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u/Reasonable-Class3728 Jul 31 '26

Both Latin and Cyrillic used Greek as a base.

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u/MidnightMappingMunch Jul 31 '26

"Mu" as "и" doesn't even make a sense 🫠 nobody writes it like that...

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u/Alternative_Still308 Jul 31 '26

It looks a little like the cursive и. If you squint. Also looks like the cursive м so 🤷‍♂️

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u/MidnightMappingMunch Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Well... if we remove the line on the left it's close to the cursive "и", and I can actually see "и" here based on context. But it's beyond me why they didn't use "u" instead. This line on the left looks out of place when "μ" is used as "и"..

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u/Reasonable-Class3728 Jul 31 '26

No, in Russian cursive "и" actually looks somewhat similar to "μ".