My hope when asking was that both were correct; the only "problem" is that I wasn't 100% sure about my reading and needed to check with a native speaker that my reading made sense!
For context, a lot of the things I run by you are things that I'm preeeetty sure are correct, but since I had to do a lot of thinking and some googling to arrive at an educated guess, because the handwriting wasn't clear, I want some reassurance that, say, "darum" wouldn't make ten times more sense there.
3) "geschah" without an e would be a correct word in this context. Perhaps his pen slipped?
That's exactly what I thought, thank you.
This is the other category of Teuton-picking question: where the handwriting *is* clear, but what I'm seeing clearly makes no sense to me. That's where I need you to tell me whether it's my lapse or the writer's.
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Re: Gentze to Fredersdorf, Letter 2, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-01-25 04:20 pm (UTC)3) "geschah" without an e would be a correct word in this context. Perhaps his pen slipped?
Re: Gentze to Fredersdorf, Letter 2, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-01-25 04:31 pm (UTC)My hope when asking was that both were correct; the only "problem" is that I wasn't 100% sure about my reading and needed to check with a native speaker that my reading made sense!
For context, a lot of the things I run by you are things that I'm preeeetty sure are correct, but since I had to do a lot of thinking and some googling to arrive at an educated guess, because the handwriting wasn't clear, I want some reassurance that, say, "darum" wouldn't make ten times more sense there.
3) "geschah" without an e would be a correct word in this context. Perhaps his pen slipped?
That's exactly what I thought, thank you.
This is the other category of Teuton-picking question: where the handwriting *is* clear, but what I'm seeing clearly makes no sense to me. That's where I need you to tell me whether it's my lapse or the writer's.