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German speakers, what does this say?
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Found this in the school hallways. I don’t know German
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man, that's triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks.
It is a piece of Goethe's "Erlkönig":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlk%C3%B6nig
Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
Whoever wrote this was probably still in school and I would guess in a North American one because of the cursive they wrote in. I think they also copied the text, badly, and that explains the mistakes.
the type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
When and where did you go to school? That capital A that looks more like the lowercase one I've only ever seen from people from North America.
Another European here to chime in that l also learned to write capital As like that in cursive.
The rs, fs and ts don't look like how we were taught though.
Correct, we live in the U.S.
They're spelling mistakes when not typed.