GazzaS Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Silly question I know. Is this script still in usage? I can't read this well enough to type it into Google Translate. I look at any old German document and all of the handwriting is completely lost to me. So.... do they? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 No, that is no more in use. Old people are able to read, but I had only some hours in school to study that type of German handwriting. I think it's called Kurrentschrift and differs from the printed letters in old German books. I could decipher it only partly. Couldn't read the town. Hauptmann Oeswin? mit seinem Flugzeugführern beim Frühstück. Unser (last world, I also can't decipher) Hauptmann ? with his pilots while breakfast. Our ? That's worse than 1/48 rigging , maybe others are more educated than me and can help. Cheers Rob 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Tried some more on the last word, could be a name of a person. The first version is with the letters I'm more or less sure they are right. The x's are where I'm nearly completely lost. Nasxxlxagitüm Nashelhagitüm Nasfeltagitüm None of this makes any sense in German, so maybe it's a name of a person, but it's hard to say, because there are different types of this kind of handwriting. The name of the town seems to start with H and seems to end with the not unusual ending of 'kirch' like church. Hope that helps a little. Cheers Rob 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Again............... I always learn something.... very interesting............ thanks Rob... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Common guys, this is what I leaned in school and I am not even that old 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumm Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I heard 'Raus!' on almost a daily basis growing up, but my Grandfather never once wrote it down! S 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted July 17, 2020 Administrators Share Posted July 17, 2020 Even cursive in English is going the way of the Dodo bird. No joke, when I write in cursive, not one single person under 30 has a clue what I wrote. It's a GREAT code. Same as writing on English, but, as best as you are able, using the Cyrillic alphabet. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 My 16 year old niece cannot read handwriting................. just what ARE they reaching in school these days?? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 You’re sure this has not been written by a doctor and it’s not a prescription ? Hubert 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 2 hours ago, HubertB said: You’re sure this has not been written by a doctor and it’s not a prescription ? Hubert It's on the back of a German wartime photograph, Hubert. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Sue asked my dad for a recipe for these steamed buns so my dad wrote it out for her. After she got it, she wasn't sure that she'd be able to eat them as she thought they had suet. I was a bit shocked so I took a look at the note. It said salt. Now my dad has terrible writing so I grew up trying to decipher things he'd written. But that was worth a laugh. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 hours ago, GazzaS said: It's on the back of a German wartime photograph, Hubert. Sure. Even I could decipher « Flugzeug ». I was just making fun of the world’s most renown terrible handwriting profession: MDs. Mind you, pharmacists manage to decipher them. I wonder if they get special courses for that ? Hubert, who seldom uses handwriting now, and whose wife complains about « undecipherable gibberish » 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artful69 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 14 hours ago, Clunkmeister said: Even cursive in English is going the way of the Dodo bird. No joke, when I write in cursive, not one single person under 30 has a clue what I wrote. It's a GREAT code. Same as writing on English, but, as best as you are able, using the Cyrillic alphabet. Im with you mate ... my primary teachers would tear me a new one if my "upsweeps" or "curl's" were a fraction off ... and then I had to fill out forms for a couple of years in block capitals only!! ... Never looked back since - can still read cursive well ... Unless its written by a doctor - then I'm in strife!! Rog 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 40 minutes ago, Artful69 said: can still read cursive well ... This is no normal German cursive up there. It's a way of handwriting used in Germany and other countries in history. In Germany it was officially used until the early 40's. The letters used correspond to the actual used German handwriting only marginal. Some of the words are easy recognizable, like Hubert mentioned 'Flugzeug', but others are hard to read, because lots of letters feature similar shapes and are hard to distinguish. The old handwriting is more gothic-, the new more Latinum styled, it's a whole different approach. Cheers Rob 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artful69 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, DocRob said: This is no normal German cursive up there. It's a way of handwriting used in Germany and other countries in history. In Germany it was officially used until the early 40's. The letters used correspond to the actual used German handwriting only marginal. Some of the words are easy recognizable, like Hubert mentioned 'Flugzeug', but others are hard to read, because lots of letters feature similar shapes and are hard to distinguish. The old handwriting is more gothic-, the new more Latinum styled, it's a whole different approach. Cheers Rob I am sure you're correct ... I certainly have no idea!! ... But as my response was to Ernie's post and not the OP - I was referring to english handwriting!! Rog 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 19 hours ago, Jeff said: My 16 year old niece cannot A girl in our office cannot read an analogue clock or watch.........WTF.......and she is 28........ 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted July 18, 2020 Administrators Share Posted July 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Bomber_County said: A girl in our office cannot read an analogue clock or watch.........WTF.......and she is 28........ Damn! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 6 hours ago, Clunkmeister said: Damn! No kidding. Phil, see if she can drive standard. That's another skill that's dying out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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