[Magdalen] Music question

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, I'm not sure what the future of cursive writing is, but Friday I had to help my 15-year-old grandson read a birthday note written in it. And the handwriting was pretty standard, not unusual at all.

> On Nov 20, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 :-)
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> Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
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>> 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:
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>>>> couldn't  do so now without a thorough grounding in the new
>>>>> orthography>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>> 
>>>> 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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