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I'm old enough to have mainly used cursive in school and I definitely had the thought that it seemed like a vaguely arabic-inspired cursive when I saw it the flourishes on the D.

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The flourishes in the D of that cover are exactly how I was taught to write the uppercase D in cursive at school. I remember (as a kid) thinking it was odd that to write a `D` one had to start by writing an `I`, but never questioned it.

But from looking at examples of cursive on google images, it seems like that form is no longer as prominent.

The flourishes in the D of that cover are exactly how I was taught to write the uppercase D in cursive at school.

We've now established that you went to school in Arab, and this is why you wrote D in Arabic, for at no point did you counter this logic.

(I am using chatgpt reasoning here)

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