Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes: >> Heartland Hymns, 2005 (PDF attached. Yes, Fraktur in 2005. The >> German-speaking Mennonite communities were in the USA since 1710 or >> so and didn't get the memo that Antiqua has won. The remaining >> German speakers are stuck HARD on Fraktur.) >> <https://www.amazon.com/dp/1897080050> > > And they do it correctly! Both in Austria and Germany most people no > longer know when to use the long s ('ſ') if typing stuff in Fraktur to > give something an old-fashioned look.
Yeah, makes me want to forbid the use of Fraktur by anybody who is not certified to be able to read a Rechtschreibduden (which contains the rules unless they have given up in the mean time). I cannot count the times I got annoyed at seeing what amounts to the equivalent of Gas-thaus or even Gas-ts-tube. Or His-toris-che Weins-tube. One case where unfortunately someone who does not know history is not bound to repeat it. -- David Kastrup
