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Re: German+Hungarian question

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, September 3, 2005, 19:32
Henrik Theiling skrev:

>>The German cursive "e" used to look something like a cursive "n" and >>came to be written over the vowel. ... > > > Ah! Right! I always wondered how the glyph came about as the printed > 'e' does not look similar. That's right, in German cursive > (Sütterlin), the 'e' is very similar to two strokes: > > http://www.peter-doerling.de/Lese/Alphabet.htm > > (Try to write 'Aluminium' in this font -- it's hilarious!)
Indeed, but the strangest thing IMHO is that the _r_ looks like my cursive "r" rotated 180 degrees. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)