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on Communist Bear Site they automatically censor out your punctuation marks in order to make your writing conform to a worse standard, calling double spaces a bourgeois decadent waste of space.
It can take time to learn to read with it, as it can be ſimilar to other letters. Moſt people ſee it being ſimilar to an f, to which it is moſt ſimilar, but I’ve alſo had people ſay it looks like an l or even t to them, which is intereſting.
It originates in Old Roman Curſive, where it was an elongated form of s, where it was juſt part of the convention. After that, it was uſed in all forms of the alphabet, and has thus been uſed in moſt languages that alſo uſe the Latin alphabet. Newer languages don’t have it hiſtorically, but even Vietnameſe did uſe it at one time. It later was uſed in printing. Here’s an article that talks a bit about its hiſtory and uſe, and here’s another that talks about the rules for its uſe in different languages and time periods ; although, it doeſn’t liſt all languages or rules, as it doeſn’t cover caſes like “ misſtate ” verſus “ croſstie.” It is one of the moſt comprehenſive articles I’ve ſeen, though, and is overall very good. Hiſtorical people never wrote down much about its uſe, which is intereſting, as everyone was uſing it for about a thouſand years.