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sagrotan ,
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I recently found an old letter from my grandpa to my grandma during the war in Old German handwriting. A lot of spikes. Decided to learn to read it. Nice journey, I recommend. (Not necessarily old GERMAN handwriting, but, you now, old handwriting in your mother tongue).

IWantToFuckSpez , (edited )

German Kurrent is almost an entire alphabet on its own. Like how the hell can you read this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lessing_Kleist-Brief.jpg/800px-Lessing_Kleist-Brief.jpg

And then they also have Sütterlin which is almost alien https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/S%C3%BCtterlinschrift.png

RandomStickman ,
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For Kurrent the umlauts next to the capital letters looks identical to the small e lol

force ,

that’s because they are, umlauts came from writing vowel digraphs as the first letter with the second letter above it, for example ueber/veber -> uͤber/vͤber -> über/v̈ber -> über (although über in particular didn’t actually originally have the spelling ueber). “e” turned into two lines, which now is represented as two dots/a diaeresis on most computer fonts. that’s why, if you don’t have access to diacritics (e.g. on technology), you write ä/ö/ü like ae/oe/ue (and why you have names which are spelled like Goethe instead of Göthe)

RandomStickman ,
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Oh that's neat!

midori ,

Some of this looks like it could be AI generated

maynarkh ,

TIL my cursive is half Kurrent. I guess every place has its own cursive style.

nxdefiant ,

“Three rings for the Elven Kings under the sky…”

kernelle ,

Cursive is still the main form of writing in Europe, haven’t seen many people writing in print/block.

zerofk ,

For the longest time I was confused when seeing Americans talk about cursive, because I thought they meant italic print. What they call cursive is just handwriting to me.

kernelle ,

Really shows you how US-centric many platforms are, I like seeing other cultures having very different things they deem “normal”.

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