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Post by Jaga on Nov 27, 2007 10:07:39 GMT -7
Hi Mary,
I am glad we could help!
Pieter, Charles,
I was impressed by your skills to translate the text. I could probably do it if... it was not written in old Gothic. Pieter, where did you learn Gothic?
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Post by pieter on Nov 27, 2007 16:18:44 GMT -7
Jaga,
I my High school period I had to read German, and I took the very difficult task to read Goethe's novel Faust in Gothic, which was in my fathers library. I have to admid that is very difficult and tiresome to read that book, because I was not used to read Gothic. I learned it myself. Later the Gothic alphabet and so Gothic letters were one of the tasks of my art studies, learning calligraphy next to perspective, color theory, stil live, model drawing and painting, city drawing and etc..
Pi9eter
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Post by Jaga on Nov 28, 2007 14:07:09 GMT -7
Pieter,
you did a great job to read Goethe's novel in Gothic! I have to admit, we had at home an old encyclopedia written in German just before WW II but I never tried to learn to read it. Too bad!
Maybe because it did remind me too much about Hitler and war times.
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Post by pieter on Nov 28, 2007 14:47:07 GMT -7
Pieter, you did a great job to read Goethe's novel in Gothic! I have to admit, we had at home an old encyclopedia written in German just before WW II but I never tried to learn to read it. Too bad! Maybe because it did remind me too much about Hitler and war times. Jaga, It was a terrible difficult and nearly rediculous task to read Goethe in Gothic, because the Gothic alphabet is very differant from other latin alphabets in other typographics. It would have been wiser for me to have surched in the local library of Vlissingen for a German version of Faust in that time! I had to struggle page after page, and never got used to it, and must have skipped some difficult words! Today I would have the same difficulty with reading Gothic, or maybe worse, because after that time I prefered the typographic letters of more modern books. I don't like the Gothic stile of the twenties and thirties (and before that). Yes, it reminds of the Third Reich, but it was already used in the time of Weimar republik (1919-1933) and before that! Pieter
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