Re: German z-letter

Just as a side note, I was once upon a time an
exchange student in Goettingen, and was amused to find
that Gymnasium students didn't recognize my "American"
style cursive Z. An older German woman, fearing that I
couldn't read her handwriting, also felt she had to
explain that "that's how we wrote z's when I was in
school." Well, that's how I was taught to write them
too.

--- xeeniseit <xeeniseit@...> wrote:

> Phillip Driscoll wrote:
> > Yes, this is recognizable to most people whose
> native language is
> > English. At least in the United States, the
> lowercase z in cursive
> > handwriting is written this way. Some decorative
> type fonts have a
> > z in this form, so it's seen fairly often in
> trademarks, etc.
>
> So it's rather unlikely that this 3-shaped z-letter
> originates in Blackletter? But
> where else would it originate?
>
>
>

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