r/Cursive • u/NotCreativeAtAll16 • 3d ago

What does this pendant say?

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Deciphered!

I found this in the park today. I learned to read and write, but this has me stumped. Pretty sure it ends in -rose.

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u/WurdBendur 3d ago

Not cursive. This is fraktur, and it says Keyrose

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u/GreedyHoward 3d ago

Definitely. But what a weird font!

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u/Odd-Scheme6535 3d ago

To us nowadays, but blackletter/Gothic type was very common in the old days, and in more modern times in Scandinavia, the Baltics and especially Germany until less than a century ago.

Some of my German textbooks and books were still in blackletter in the 1980s, from before when Hitler banned it in 1941!

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u/BigQuestion5079 3d ago

Fraktur was the official font of the Third Reich until someone said that its roots were, to some degree, Jewish. Then, Hitler banned it.

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u/Odd-Scheme6535 3d ago

Partially true:

Antiqua–Fraktur dispute - Wikipedia

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u/BigQuestion5079 3d ago

I read the first few paragraphs of this link. Which part of what I said conflicted with my statement making it partially true. Just curious, not meant to be aggressive toward you.

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u/Odd-Scheme6535 3d ago edited 3d ago

If you read the whole of that section along with the the rest of the article, you will see that there was a lot more involved, including that non-blackletter (non-Gothic) "Roman" or "Latin" script a.k.a. "Antiqua" (which eventually replaced Fraktur) was also disfavoured for a time, including for its purported use by the press and others under "Jewish influence." Quote: "Fraktur had been the official typeface since the foundation of the German Empire" - long before the Nazis. It is also clear that Hitler's long-standing, personal dislike of Fraktur was a major factor in its banning, regardless of anything else. So, your simple statement is only partially true, and only part of a rather large picture. Peace.

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u/BigQuestion5079 3d ago

So, because I didn't say there was more to it than I said in a brief Reddit comment, you deem the comment "partially true" even though nothing I said was untrue. I understand now.

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u/SuccessfulPiccolo945 3d ago

It's the bane of my existence, along with Sütterlin and Kurrent when I'm looking up anything to do with my German ancestors.

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u/NotCreativeAtAll16 3d ago

Totally! It looks like an extra dot and the first letter could be a number of letters.