> > Look at any old book in German circa 1870. The flourishes.
>I think you're refering to "Fraktur". Well, it does take some getting used
>to
Is this the same as what we in the USA used to call "Black Forest" type?
If so, it was an old book in this font which finallyenabled me to begin
easily reading German handwriting.
>Nothing much is silent, except the silent things*, but it's not even close
>to
>one letter <-> one phoneme phonemicity.
It was (still is) the silent latters in French which give me the most issue
when communicating in it.
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