[Magdalen] Music question

[Marion Thompson]

I remember learning at boarding school to write cursively, those 
sweeping capitals, and rows of 'c's like waves on the lake.  Then my 
school switched to 'round hand' and that was fine.  Then in Grade Six, I 
was at a different school and did my tidiest round hand.  The teacher 
huffed and said I should write properly, 'we don't print here."  So I 
incorporated some aspects of cursive so that it would pass for 
acceptible.  About ten years later I fell under the spell of some 
English young men who were very good at italic and I got an Osmiroid pen 
and Pelikan ink and added that to the mix.  I rather like my writing :-)

Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....


On 11/20/2016 4:29 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> 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.
>
>