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> > My grandparents could read Fraktur fluently, but they are all dead.
> > So is Fraktur.
>
> You fail to reveal whether you yourself read it fluently.
> I have no problems. Moreover, the discussion focussed on
> German, but Fraktur was used also for other languages.
> For example, I have a Danish Bible printed in Fraktur
> (Copenhagen, 1923).
>
Indeed. I was somewhat surprised myself to find that the only
Swedish-Latin dictionary at the public library in the town of
V�ster�s, Sweden (where I grew up) was printed in the late 19th
century and was all in Fraktur. I had a bit of a hard time reading
it, but it was entirely legible.
-hpa
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