Talk:Sütterlin

message: Sütterlin banned by the Nazis? explain the honorary cufftitles issued to the elite Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Feldherrnhalle and Großdeutschland divisions? --Ansbachdragoner 00:44, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Citings, links and literature can be found in the article :de:Antiqua-Fraktur-Streit. I have requested a translation of that article into English, see Wikipedia:German-English translation requests#History. -- j. 'mach' wust | ‽ 13:02, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's great, however how doesent that conflict with the actual survivng cufftitles which were issued to, among others, the Großdeutschland Division, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and Feldherrnhalle formations? See the Panzer Corps Feldherrnhalle article for a photograph of a Sütterlin pattern cufftitle used throughout the war. --ansbachdragoner 02:29, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Please note that an "errornous belief" and a "propaganda trick" are two different things. I would really like to see a reference that Hitler had really been connecting Fraktur to his Jewish-paranoia - the history of black letters were known for quite a time so that one could hardly make up a Jew-myth about it, so it would be interesting to see how this cam about. Guidod (talk) 13:47, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nazi Banning?? - Cufftitles 

message: It is said the House of Slytherin in Harry Potter fantasy novels was named after Suetterlin. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.131.210.162 (talk) 14:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Citation please? RedAugust 20:07, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: WEll, Slytherin and Sütterlin sound quite similar, but I'm not sure that this similarity was intended by J. K. Rowling. However, Sütterlin is almost as hard to read as Parseltongue, so what you're saying is not absurd. However, I agree with RedAugust, we need a citation. -- 79.238.174.228 (talk) 19:46, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parseltongue 

message: I hate to nag but the long image shown in the sample seems to be a poor copy/paste job (Either that or each character was pasted into a font-maker program hastily). I think that the image at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Kant_Suetterlin.png is much more suitable. The letters connect in a cleaner manner and it appears more natural. RedAugust 20:09, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: The word "Kurrent" shows up in the sample text as "Kurrnet" (at least on my screen).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.33.39.111 (talk) 22:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More nagging 

message: Languages other than German were not written in the Sütterlin script. For example, my grandmother learned the Latin script when she started learning French. I've also seen a facsimile where everything was in German script, but the foreign (English) name was in Latin script (It was the facsmile of a pass issued to the British ambassador on the eve or World War I). It's not likely the Nazis were trying to write orders in, say, French using Sütterlin (they would have been using a typewriter, for starters) and then banned Sütterlin throughout Germany to accomodate the occupied peoples.
I have heard (unverified) that the Nazis thought they had discovered Jewish origins of the old German writing, and that was the ostensible reason for banning it.
As for the culltitles: even after the ban, I imagine they would have decided to keep the German script on them as a heraldic, decorative element, since using the cursive German script (Kurrent/Sütterlin) and not the printed script (Fraktur) in itself would be considered decorative, in the same way that running script on a shop sign is more decorative than printed script.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.55.251.13 (talk) 00:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for banning script 

message: Is there an analagous national handwriting style for Spain and Russia?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.201.166.54 (talk) 03:35, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just asking 

message: Of course Russia has a handwriting style of its own--they have their own alphabet ! Differences from the block-printed or printing-press forms include that Cyrillic-script "t" is a Latin-script "m" with a macron on top of it ; Cyrillic-script "d" is a Latin-script "g" ; Cyrillic-script "i" is a Latin-script "u" -- I'm not kidding ! I don't know about Spain, but Australia has specified "italic" instead of "script", so it has its own national handwriting style... 4.154.250.119 (talk) 23:47, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Russia uses Cyrilic