Jéssica/Vitor@lemmings.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months 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 · 2 months agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·edit-22 months 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-up10·2 months 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-up6·2 months agothe type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
minus-squareFriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months 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-22 months 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-up3·2 months agoCorrect, we live in the U.S.
minus-squaretrashcan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months 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.