I'm reading it because the Kurrent is so clean. I will not be writing it up for salon, because it's SO boring, just finances (at least so far)--it's a prenup. But I had to report that there are references to Ariane's mother as "Gnädiger Mamma" and "Frau Mamma", which is hilarious to see in something as formal as this! I will report if I find anything else interesting or entertaining.
Also, I wish to complain that the document being so formal is a pain, in that every capital letter is a series of flourishes I cannot decipher, and because it's German and especially because it's 18th century German, SO MANY words are capitalized. Either I can guess the first letter from context or else I move on and silently wish I were just a little more fluent in German. But the practice is helping nonetheless, and one day I will read more interesting and less cleanly written things and be able to report them to salon.
I also read Crown Prince future FW3's lengthy and detailed description of what he did the day of Fritz's death, also in clean Kurrent (because it's a copy made by a secretary for the archives). It is boring. SO boring. It covers every single detail of where FW3 stood, and where FW3 sat when he dined, and NOTHING about what happened to the dogs. It was my last hope for someone to tell us that, and is why I ordered it last year. Alas!
However, there are at least a couple things of interest to salon (included by accident, I assume :P), so I will write those parts up when I've had a little more Kurrent practice (I'm still skipping words I can't immediately get rather than figuring them out).
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Peter and Ariane's marriage contract
Date: 2024-01-19 03:06 pm (UTC)Also, I wish to complain that the document being so formal is a pain, in that every capital letter is a series of flourishes I cannot decipher, and because it's German and especially because it's 18th century German, SO MANY words are capitalized. Either I can guess the first letter from context or else I move on and silently wish I were just a little more fluent in German. But the practice is helping nonetheless, and one day I will read more interesting and less cleanly written things and be able to report them to salon.
I also read Crown Prince future FW3's lengthy and detailed description of what he did the day of Fritz's death, also in clean Kurrent (because it's a copy made by a secretary for the archives). It is boring. SO boring. It covers every single detail of where FW3 stood, and where FW3 sat when he dined, and NOTHING about what happened to the dogs. It was my last hope for someone to tell us that, and is why I ordered it last year. Alas!
However, there are at least a couple things of interest to salon (included by accident, I assume :P), so I will write those parts up when I've had a little more Kurrent practice (I'm still skipping words I can't immediately get rather than figuring them out).