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It feels unbelievable that in Europe literacy rate could be 10% of lower. Then I look at documents even as young as 150 years... fraktur, blackletter, elaborate
by lifestyleguru 11mo ago
It feels unbelievable that in Europe literacy rate could be 10% of lower. Then I look at documents even as young as 150 years... fraktur, blackletter, elaborate handwritting. I guess I'm illiterate now.
Hopefully next generations will feel the same about legal contracts, law in general, and Java code bases. They're incomprehensible not because of fonts but because of unfathomable complexity.
- sph 11mo agoWhich Europe and which century do you live in where literacy rate is below 10%?
- lifestyleguru 11mo agoSpeaking about the past centuries.
- tpm 11mo agoYou can learn fraktur or blackletter in a day and cyrillic in a few days, if you already know the latin alphabet.
- lifestyleguru 11mo ago> learn fraktur or blackletter in a day and cyrillic in a few days Not a chance, sorry.
- tpm 11mo agoWhy? The former are just different typefaces (I learned to read them by myself when I was 10 while looking at our old books) and the latter I sort of picked up while travelling through Serbia and Bulgaria (I don't speak the languages).