But then Dean responded:
> So, you are saying there are glyph streams in German Fraktur that > fluent, native Germans would have trouble reading.
I consider myself moderately native, definitely of German origin, and arguably somewhat fluent in reading Fraktur...
I can state that even after reading dozens of books I still need to take a closer look sometimes to see if I was reading a k, r or x, and that's for lower case. The uppercase letters, esp the ones that don't occur with really high frequencies, I can often only decode from context -- reading performance improving with length of exposure to a given text, as usual.
Difficulties in reading a script may explain why it has been abandoned but they don't argue for or against encoding it. Otherwise, my handwriting, set to type would be a shoo-in. ;-)
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