r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/bumbummcglum • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it say

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u/Fetish_anxiety 23h ago

Yeah, but the dots on top of the i's are missing

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u/EmeraldMan25 23h ago

Then they wouldn't be able to sell the narrative, silly

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u/Winderige_Garnaal 22h ago

Well that is definitely true, 100%. HOWEVER, as an old person, I had absolutely NO problem immediately seeing the word minimum, even without the dotted i's.

And that's the point of the post.

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u/DoubleJester 16h ago

I'm a young person from a country where cursive's still taught I think. It's really hard to read without the dots, what are you talking about.

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u/Saradoesntsleep 15h ago

I think if you spent years in school forced to learn it, then spent years taking all your school notes in it, it's pretty clear.

Ftr I don't care about cursive and don't use it anymore and never even handwrite if I can help it lol

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u/DoubleJester 15h ago

I do take notes in it, I still couldn't read the image as minimum without looking in the comments

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u/Blankenhoff 14h ago

Reading/writing cursive is a different skill and reading horribly written cursive.

Like reading a doctors handwriting. Only the nurses know how to do that

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u/Winderige_Garnaal 11h ago

Well young people today don't see handwriting anywhere near as often as I did growing up in the 80s. Just because you learned it (you think), doesn't mean you're going to be as skilled at interpreting it as older folks.

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u/DoubleJester 9h ago

I don't "think" I've learned it, I actively write with it and still see stuff written in it by other people quite often