[Magdalen] Music question
James Oppenheimer-Crawford
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 19:28:02 UTC 2016
a longer way of spelling "spelling". Fascinating.
James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**” -- *Leonard Nimoy
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> Orthography = spelling
>
> And Scott the Knitter (& German scholar) wrote that.
>
> I do remember our ancient textbooks in HS German still had the old Fraktur
> fonts. A pain to read.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 2:04 PM
> To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Music question
>
> Well, I didn't write that, so I have no clue. Maybe whoever actually wrote
> it can step forward and clarify?
>
> I could not have written it, because I'm not even sure what the heck
> orthography is, so I would not use the word in a sentence.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**” -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> In a message dated 11/19/2016 8:10:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> couldn't do so now without a thorough grounding in the new
>> > orthography>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm guessing (maybe only partially?) that you mean the switch from
>> the medieval Fraktur script to modern Latin based characters.
>>
>>
>>
>> David S.
>>
>>
>
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