Jéssica/Vitor@lemmings.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoGerman speakers, what does this say?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareGerman speakers, what does this say?Jéssica/Vitor@lemmings.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoman, that’s triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks. It is a piece of Goethe’s “Erlkönig”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlkönig Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
minus-squareFriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoWhoever wrote this was probably still in school and I would guess in a North American one because of the cursive they wrote in. I think they also copied the text, badly, and that explains the mistakes.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agothe type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
minus-squareFriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·30 days agoWhen and where did you go to school? That capital A that looks more like the lowercase one I’ve only ever seen from people from North America.
minus-squareMirodir@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-229 days agoAnother European here to chime in that l also learned to write capital As like that in cursive. The rs, fs and ts don’t look like how we were taught though.
minus-squareJéssica/Vitor@lemmings.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoCorrect, we live in the U.S.
minus-squaretrashcan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThey’re spelling mistakes when not typed.
man, that’s triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks.
It is a piece of Goethe’s “Erlkönig”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlkönig
Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
Whoever wrote this was probably still in school and I would guess in a North American one because of the cursive they wrote in. I think they also copied the text, badly, and that explains the mistakes.
the type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
When and where did you go to school? That capital A that looks more like the lowercase one I’ve only ever seen from people from North America.
Another European here to chime in that l also learned to write capital As like that in cursive.
The rs, fs and ts don’t look like how we were taught though.
Correct, we live in the U.S.
They’re spelling mistakes when not typed.