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       Whose trash is your treasure?
       By: Nikola Date: September 12, 2019, 1:20 pm
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       Chizuko wrote a comment recently, describing our western cursive
       handwriting as beautiful, which made me wonder if you've ever
       come across anything in another country or culture that seemed
       spectacular to you, while to most people from that culture it
       was just ordinary, day-to-day stuff. It could be anything: food,
       clothes, language, you name it.
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       Re: Whose trash is your treasure?
       By: SHL Date: September 12, 2019, 1:42 pm
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       [quote author=Nikola link=topic=1365.msg19410#msg19410
       date=1568312438]
       Chizuko wrote a comment recently, describing our western cursive
       handwriting as beautiful, which made me wonder if you've ever
       come across anything in another country or culture that seemed
       spectacular to you, while to most people from that culture it
       was just ordinary, day-to-day stuff. It could be anything: food,
       clothes, language, you name it.
       [/quote]
       When I first started learning German, in 1977, I thought the old
       and now archaic German script looked beautiful. It’s not taught
       and never used. But, there was a time when it was. Now, its use
       is restricted to newspaper names or certain trademark names, or
       on the sides of buildings. To me, that script really meant
       „German“ and I used to think it was quite beautiful.
       Literature a few hundreds of years old in German has this script
       and, although hard to read, I think is quite beautiful.
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       Re: Whose trash is your treasure?
       By: SHL Date: September 12, 2019, 2:19 pm
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       I‘m also not a fan of the newer Rechtschreibreform, the German
       writing reform that mandates (at least in official writings)
       that certain that words formally used the German Eszett, the ß
       sign, be changed to a simple ss, like they always did in
       Switzerland.
       Now you are supposed to write daß as dass, or muß as muss. These
       changes occurred for reason I don’t understand sometime in the
       1990s. I refuse to follow these new rules. Not that I don’t know
       them, but mostly because I don’t like them. If it was good
       enough to use a ß in the 1980s and earlier, why does it have to
       be changed now? My opinion is „if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.“
       And, no one fails to understand words written the old way as it
       is.
       Getting more back to your question, Nikola, I think the ß in
       Straße looks pretty cool on road signs, like these from Berlin
       below. I‘ve seen these in other cities too.
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       Re: Whose trash is your treasure?
       By: NealC Date: September 13, 2019, 8:29 am
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       I know this will sound crazy, but I saw a bit of that German
       script in the old US war movie "The Dirty Dozen".  Lee Marvin
       and Charles Bronson are US soldiers in German uniforms, and they
       are checking in to a German officer hotel.  They get handed the
       registration book and they see the (quite beautiful and
       intricate) script and realize there is no way they can duplicate
       it.
       Good scene :-)
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       Re: Whose trash is your treasure?
       By: Chizuko hanji Date: September 13, 2019, 9:38 am
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       When I was a junior high, wrapping something in English
       newspapers was cool even if had been terrible news of murders.
       Because I couldn't read any English yet.
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