I grew up in Austria more than 50 years ago, and trust me, cursive script was already ancient then. Yes, we had to learn it (1945 - 1948) in primary school, but even then it was not used any more (except for some VERY old people with grey or no hair at all).
I might still be able to read it, but I was never able to write it legibly. Just checked with my children - writing cursive had disappeared from the schools altogether before the 1960's. Arnold PS.: I blame the fact that I had to learn to write cursive for my lousy handwriting today - at least it is a good excuse. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Everson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Aramaic, Samaritan, Phoenician At 08:42 -0400 2003-07-15, Karlj�rgen Feuerherm wrote: > Michael Everson said: > > My native script isn't Hebrew but I am certain that no one who was could > > easily read a newspaper article written in Phoenician or Samaritan letters. > >Surely that is not an argument for encoding a separate script, is it? It is sometimes. :-) >Most German people I know can't read the German >cursive script used say 50 years ago. But the >characters clearly correspond to the Latin >characters in use today. The handwriting is difficult to read. One would think that in German schools it would be at least introduced so children would know about it. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
