"Sie" is wrongly capitalized and isn't referring in the address mode to Fredersdorf but to the debts as noun. "nahmen" otoh, should be capitalized and should lack an h. In which case it's the plural form of "names", not the past tense for "take", and the whole sentence could mean:
"And since His Majesty the King should be willing to pay for all the debts made, no matter what they are called" (literally "what names they may have")
"Sie" is wrongly capitalized and isn't referring in the address mode to Fredersdorf but to the debts as noun. "nahmen" otoh, should be capitalized and should lack an h. In which case it's the plural form of "names", not the past tense for "take", and the whole sentence could mean:
Got it, thanks! It's often hard to tell when to represent 's' as lowercase vs. capitalized in these letters, since there are not 2 but 3 ways of representing the 's' at the beginning of a word. I just checked, and the 's' he uses here is not the 's' he uses for verbs like 'setzen' or 'sollen', but it's also not the 's' he uses for nouns like 'Schulden'. It's the same 's' he uses for "Seine Majestät" and for "Sie" (formal address), so I capitalized it.
He's also definitely using a lowercase 'n' for "nahmen", and I did wonder if it was "names", since that's a pretty common spelling for the word. Plus capitalization is very inconsistent, and in Glasow's letters more than most.
"And since His Majesty the King should be willing to pay for all the debts made, no matter what they are called" (literally "what names they may have")
This makes more sense than anything I was able to come up with, so thank you!
2) "Die Rechnung, welche" is correct.
Woooo! You guys have no idea how proud I am that I got the postscript that is (2). :D I was so sure I was going to have to pass it off to my former German history professor who offered to help with whatever I can't decipher. "Rechnung welche" defied decipherment for *so long*. (It's directly below his signature, and the flourish of the signature partially covers it up. So if there's a comma there, it's lost to the blotch of ink--so much so that for a long time, I thought this was one word starting with "Ver-".)
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Re: Glasow to Fredersdorf, Letter 1, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-01-29 09:41 am (UTC)"Sie" is wrongly capitalized and isn't referring in the address mode to Fredersdorf but to the debts as noun. "nahmen" otoh, should be capitalized and should lack an h. In which case it's the plural form of "names", not the past tense for "take", and the whole sentence could mean:
"And since His Majesty the King should be willing to pay for all the debts made, no matter what they are called" (literally "what names they may have")
2) "Die Rechnung, welche" is correct.
Re: Glasow to Fredersdorf, Letter 1, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-01-29 11:27 am (UTC)Got it, thanks! It's often hard to tell when to represent 's' as lowercase vs. capitalized in these letters, since there are not 2 but 3 ways of representing the 's' at the beginning of a word. I just checked, and the 's' he uses here is not the 's' he uses for verbs like 'setzen' or 'sollen', but it's also not the 's' he uses for nouns like 'Schulden'. It's the same 's' he uses for "Seine Majestät" and for "Sie" (formal address), so I capitalized it.
He's also definitely using a lowercase 'n' for "nahmen", and I did wonder if it was "names", since that's a pretty common spelling for the word. Plus capitalization is very inconsistent, and in Glasow's letters more than most.
"And since His Majesty the King should be willing to pay for all the debts made, no matter what they are called" (literally "what names they may have")
This makes more sense than anything I was able to come up with, so thank you!
2) "Die Rechnung, welche" is correct.
Woooo! You guys have no idea how proud I am that I got the postscript that is (2). :D I was so sure I was going to have to pass it off to my former German history professor who offered to help with whatever I can't decipher. "Rechnung welche" defied decipherment for *so long*. (It's directly below his signature, and the flourish of the signature partially covers it up. So if there's a comma there, it's lost to the blotch of ink--so much so that for a long time, I thought this was one word starting with "Ver-".)