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Pre-WW2 German cursive

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Pre-WW2 German cursive

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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world ·
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Technically these are all still Latin leters, just that they’re written in a weird way that evolved from middle-aged Gothic handwriting as opposed to Latin directly which was the case with English cursive. This style of writing, along with the print-oriented 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯, was abandoned for the Latin equivalent by the Nazis for logistical reasons in 1941.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua–Fraktur_dispute

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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    It’s so discomfortingly jagged

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      What the hickety heck is going on between lowercase R and X?

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        Multiple letters for “s” sounds and the rest idk lol

        Edit: looks like two for “t” sounds as well. Not sure how they’re supposed to sound though.

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          I’m not sure about the first and second "s"es, but the third is an “ß” (es and zet) that is still used for a sharp s sound following a long vowel… it’s still in use, for example in “Straße” (street). The second “t” is a “tz” which is also atill in use in words like Katze (cat).

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            The first one is a long s, the second is the “normal” s.

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            I expected ß but then the extra letters kept going lol

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      Like English cursive with sharp elbows.

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