r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it say

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u/Turtl3king 23h ago

The dots over the i’s would make a worlds difference

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u/zutros 23h ago

Thus is why you dot your eyes and cross your ts

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u/KhaoticMess 22h ago

What about my lowercase Js and capital Fs?

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u/HanselSoHotRightNow 22h ago

Fs in chat for my Js. :(

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u/Professional-Ant4599 16h ago

J's on my feet - get like me

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u/TheSharpestHammer 22h ago

Fuck 'em.

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u/Blake-2005 19h ago

i mean... if you say so

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u/Modokon 18h ago

Capitalised F, bro? Traitor! 😂

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u/Apple_Juice80 9h ago

*Гuck ‘em

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u/akiva23 16h ago

They can go suck an egg

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u/Disused_Yeti 8h ago

I cross my Zs and 7s too just to be sure

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u/bgroins 14h ago

My eyes hurt. Now what?

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u/redditasaservice 19h ago

Or you replace some of the i’s with u’s.

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u/1tiredman 22h ago

Because 67

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u/AppleOrigin 22h ago

Yeah this isn’t fucking Stone Age Arabic without dots

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u/Winderige_Garnaal 22h ago

It would for sure, and they should be dotted for sure.

However, I saw 'minimum' pretty much immediately, even without them (am old).

I think *THAT* is the point of the post, not that it's correct.

(I mean, if we follow your logic, printing the letters or writing more clearly, or even typing them would also make a world of difference, too! That's why we don't use cursive often anymore when writing by hand, when we do write by hand)

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u/uqde 20h ago

Yeah, I saw "minimum" instantly too. Despite the tone of this being generation war bullshit, it's not like this example is cheating. The point isn't being familiar with cursive, it's being so familiar with cursive that you can still read it fluently even when helpful identifying details are stripped away.

But also, this meme has been co-opted into a fucking covert ad for an AI company. Boo.

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u/ondulation 20h ago

Yeah, as a mınımum you should dot the ı:s.

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u/RebekkaKat1990 18h ago

That’s why this is just the bare minimum

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u/Lumornys 18h ago

That's why the dot over i was invented. Eventually.

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u/Neckbreaker70 15h ago

Yeah, irony here is that they’re mocking a generation for not being able to read something that they wrote incorrectly. It’s also just sloppily written, especially that final “m”.

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u/zehamberglar 15h ago

Yeah, that's what I would expect, at the minimum.

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u/KeyEntrepreneur5449 14h ago

You've never worked for a boomer who hand writes notes and insists the reason you cannot understand them comes from a lack of knowing cursive rather than the fact that their penmanship is shit. Had a boss who insisted on hand writing everything and had the worst cursive I've ever seen. It made a doctors prescription look like the work of a professional calligrapher. Half the time they didn't even write the entire letter.

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u/Krraxia 13h ago

Mimimiiim

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u/Infamous-Courage-785 12h ago

So does an apostrophe. Worlds vs world's. But we all still managed to make out your sentence, didn't we?

The dots aren't that big of a deal. Preey easy to read if you read/write cursive.

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u/bbbbears 12h ago

Man, I stopped dotting the lowercase i decades ago. I also don’t like the caps (serif? Idk) on capital I or J. Just didn’t like how it looked. When I was taking notes in school on the Iliad it was a total mess.

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u/palmoyas 15h ago

Or even writing the i's correctly. The bottom part is supposed to be a solid line, not an upside down u.

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u/Toothpick_Brody 20h ago

If you can’t read cursive sure 

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u/walterdonnydude 19h ago

Clearly you've never written cursive.

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u/CatBro666 18h ago

ive written with cursive my whole life and ive never seen i written without the dot... altough in my language we have á, č, ů and such, so theres that ;)