[Magdalen] Music question

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I had a blast learning the script of Hebrew. Unfortunately, since I use it
infrequently, I've pretty much forgotten it.

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 4:59 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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