Jéssica@lemmings.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 hours agoGerman speakers, what does this say?message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareGerman speakers, what does this say?Jéssica@lemmings.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 hours agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-28 hours agoman, that’s triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks. It is a piece of Goethe’s “Erlkönig”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlkönig Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
minus-squareFriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 hours agoWhoever wrote this was probably still in school and I would guess in a North American one because of the cursive they wrote in. I think they also copied the text, badly, and that explains the mistakes.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 hours agothe type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
minus-squareFriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·45 minutes agoWhen and where did you go to school? That capital A that looks more like the lowercase one I’ve only ever seen from people from North America.
minus-squaretrashcan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoThey’re spelling mistakes when not typed.
man, that’s triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks.
It is a piece of Goethe’s “Erlkönig”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlkönig
Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
Whoever wrote this was probably still in school and I would guess in a North American one because of the cursive they wrote in. I think they also copied the text, badly, and that explains the mistakes.
the type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
When and where did you go to school? That capital A that looks more like the lowercase one I’ve only ever seen from people from North America.
Correct, we live in the U.S.
They’re spelling mistakes when not typed.