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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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    29•3 months ago

    It’s so discomfortingly jagged

    • @KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee
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      17•3 months ago

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

      • iltoroargento
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • @almpeter@feddit.org
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          12•3 months ago

          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).

          • @ahornsirup@feddit.org
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            5•3 months ago

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

          • @KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee
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            2•3 months ago

            I expected ß but then the extra letters kept going lol

    • @RandomVideos@programming.dev
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      Why are n and u exactly the same?

      • @7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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        3•3 months ago

        They aren’t, the u has a dash over it

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