Can you really read this, German speakers?

[Camerus]

I can read it, but it is tedious.  However, I've never set out to learn Gothic script specifically before.

[syk]

[Pat]

Took me some time to realize that "gion" was "give" What's the story behind that "e" that looks exactly like "n"?



Wait is this right? "And then annoy everyone elfe (?) with it. Gnihihi" ?

[syk]

"I think I might give it a try and learn German handwriting. And then annoy everyone else with it. Gnihihi."
That s looking like an f is a bastard. There are several forms of s, the round s at the end of a word or syllable, that f-like s for everywhere else and the ß replacing the double-s.
Why the handwritten e looks almost like the n - no idea.

[Sahib]

This looks a lot like standard Polish handwriting

[DontSayBanana]

This looks a lot like standard Polish handwriting

Which is the main reason I can read it.  In addition to being in charge of family records in German, my Polish great-grandmother liked to send me letters in a very similar script.

[Syt]

More about Sütterlin (as that style is called):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin

Closely related to (the more spread) Kurrent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent

[Alatriste]

Thank you everybody. Thanks to you I found this chart

http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/fraktur.htm

That has made my task more bearable, although I still don't understand how Winzingerode could become Minzingerd (unless Nofi used some OCR program... but then he got a result incredibly good given the circumstances)

[Camerus]

I mourn the demise of several stylistic elements of older German (most glaring recent example:  using the dative in lieu of the genitive - wtf?).  However, the near-extinction of those alternate scripts is not one of them.