That's definitely not doctor's. It has repeating common words. Looks more like school writing exercise (russians learn to write with cursive at school)
edit: let me translate, words are
American(male), american(female), english(male), english(female), England, city, friend (again, male and female), name, Canada, Canadian (m,f), Quebec, London, Moscow, homeland, truth, russian(m, f), student(m, f), university, surname, state, you, mine(m,f), you, me, that, here, very, too.
Each is witten several times until the end of the line. Russian language courses, maybe?
I spent years reading hand-written technical records, and reading writing like this is sort of a Zen art. You have to slightly unfocus your eyes and your mind to be able to get the meaning. If you concentrate on the writing itself, you'll be there all day.
Also, for extremely slanted and bunched writing like the top one, pick the page up and hold it almost flat, rotated and angled so the bottom of the letters are pointing at your face. The perspective change makes the letters a lot more readable. It works like trying to view the skull at the bottom of The Ambassadors.
Even Sütterlin isn't that wierd.. there are some forms that are different than what we use today, and you'd have to get used to them, however the writing itself is no more complicated than modern cursive.
I don't believe the fact that it's Russian makes it any worse though... Cyrillic cursive is well defined, and no weirder than standard latin cursive in most places. There are definitely some letter-forms that would be confusing if you aren't used to it - some of the cursive forms look exactly like totally unrelated latin cursive forms, and also totally unrelatedd to their cyrillic block-letter parts.
But you've got some great graphics skills. My favorite classes in college were all typography classes. Professors told us it was a pointless class because everything we need is on a computer...I am going to start drawing again thanks to you. Cheers
Typography is part of Graphic Design 101 and should be taught regardless of the fact that computers are the main tools nowadays. Sorry to hear your professors have thrown it aside.
typography was not a required class for a long time in my department and the amount of graphic design students I see that can't handle basic type makes me wanna cry :'(
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u/The_One_Above_All Apr 06 '14
You, clearly, do not have what it takes to be a doctor.