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lifestylegurutoday at 11:59 AM2 repliesview on HN

It feels unbelievable that in Europe literacy rate could be 10% of lower. Then I look at documents even as young as 150 years... fraktur, blackletter, elaborate handwritting. I guess I'm illiterate now.

Hopefully next generations will feel the same about legal contracts, law in general, and Java code bases. They're incomprehensible not because of fonts but because of unfathomable complexity.


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sphtoday at 12:31 PM

Which Europe and which century do you live in where literacy rate is below 10%?

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tpmtoday at 12:55 PM

You can learn fraktur or blackletter in a day and cyrillic in a few days, if you already know the latin alphabet.

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