Fractur in the Early 1700s.

This is a typical example, how I have learned Teutsch spelling and Fractur print space rules in the 1600s and 1700s. Every generation changes these rules and uses their very own styles. The generation around 1700 call themselves the gallant generation, or the gallant world and their books look pretty much alike—like this, which was typed by myself:

Übesetzung ins Hochdeutsche von C. Smith:  http://poser-lapointe.blogspot.de/p/herr-ludewig-fort.html

The text indeed quotes authors of the late 1600s and the gallant generation really uses quotation marks this way:

"As you start each line of your quotation with a quotation mark,
"the quote is easily to find in your text. It does seem unusual in
"the 21st century, but it makes sense. Finally you end the quote
"with another quotation mark, like in the 2000s."

In the middle of the fractur text you read "mehr als 60. Jahr"—this does NOT mean '60st year', but simply "60 years". There is generally a dot behind any number, the gallant generation is mostly strict in this matter, and they will judge you if you neglect the dot. ("21ten" is the exemption—never in this case!) Any headline also ends with a dot, as I demonstrate here in the headline of this article. Also, if you make a list, there has to be a dot behind any single word if it doesn't belong to a whole sentence. If you're a book keeper in the reich of 1714, it probably depends on your boss, whether neglecting a dot will be forgiven. This looks kind of neurotic in 2014, but this is my world and I follow it.

Introducing Internet in the 1700s is very risky anyway. It means opening, even creating new worlds and this is what only God is supposed to do. There are many conservative people who will tell you, this probably comes from the devil. In case they're at least not that superstitious, they will look for mistakes: On Twitter it was impossible to end the sentences of my profile with dots, since I had to do it in Teutsch, Latin and modern English. There are people who then will reject the whole internet, just because I leave out dots, and they're like, "This is going to change our rules and end our good old traditions, I hate it." Like my fractur text here says, we made these experiences when newspapers came up in the very first years of the 1600s. In the early 1700s newspapers are pretty much accepted, but there are still a couple stupid conservatives who hate them and fight them. At least they don't want the little people to read them and get smart too. Well, that's what papers do in the 1700s—they make people smart and the internet does too.

Amalia Elisabetha von Behm.