Blackletter
Blackletter
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In a word, the original meaning of the English "blackletter" may refer the widespread usage of a "lower" form of writing as opposed to the more enlightened form of writing, which was Latin (Roman typeface).
as a sidenote, galician-portuguese (from which many spanish and portuguese words evolved) was called "black-latin" or lower-Latin. In Medieval Europe, the word "black" was an adjective for everything that was not right.
- And yes, that's why Africans are called "black", or "blue" (hence, "the blues"). History is a bitch, but we might as well face it. Fortunately, we're evolving.********
- ... face it, and evolve. I think we have evolved, but language evolves much slower.********
- And yes, that's why Africans are called "black", or "blue" (hence, "the blues"). History is a bitch, but we might as well face it. Fortunately, we're evolving.