[Magdalen] Music question

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 11/20/16 8:18 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> No, it's the 1996 agreement on spelling simplification:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

I don't know now which friend it was, whether the war-bride of an 
American veteran friend, or a cousin-in-law who fits the same category, 
but both were young schoolgirls during WWII.  One of them told the story 
of how shattered she was after working very hard to learn her 
penmanship, when they changed things, and it would no longer be useful 
in her writing.


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