50+1 Ultra

I draw and reblog Napoleonic wars kinda stuff.

[cedyat]

The next time you are dreading a teams call with your co-workers, just be glad you don't have to put up with these dudes. I legit forgot Junot wasn't a marshal. Just imagine Napoleon hasn't found a way to perma ban him yet.

[monstrousdaughter]

I wanted to ask german speakers who have read what little fritz wrote in german-- does the way he use the language indicate a lack of comfort with it, in the sense that it's often misspelled and grammatically "jumbled"? Do you remember specific things in his writing which indicate this? Sorry if this is a weird question, but I'm curious about it and I'm veeeeery early into my whole learning german journey so I can't judge for myself

[fritz-willi-3]

So, I may not be the best person for this, since Ive only read some of his letters, so I could be talking bullshit.

His spelling is really horrendous, which can't be just put on time difference between todays German and German back then. From what I can tell, he writes the way he speaks/hears German.

It is known that he preferred the French language, he thought that it was more fitting for poems etc and just in general a nicer language. But idk if that means he wasn't comfortable with German. He spoke German to his soldiers, wrote to Fredersdorf in German and to anyone who he knew couldn't understand French. In the end German was his mother language and his father preferred it so there could also be negative emotions in that regard.

[cedyat]

I once read an article regarding the handwriting of the Prussian monarchs, which included examples of their handwritten letters. The example for Frederick II was this very short order about checking out the efficiency of flax seed and buying land (English translation below):

It is both very awkward and filled with grammar (like wrong plurals or articles) and spelling mistakes that also can‘t be just due to the big time difference.

Unfortunately, the examples chosen for Frederick‘s predecessor and successor are both in French, so it’s difficult to compare but the example chosen for his grandnephew is also in German.

These two letters are exactly 20 years apart (1786 and 1806), so not that much time apart and yet the difference in proficiency in German between these two is huge.

*English translation:

A year ago (I) ordered you to try to grow flax seed and have it attempted in Silesia to see if grows well, the donkeys have forgotten it. This adresed to Domhart: Berlin still needs 40000 pound butter, therefore he has to see how much land from the Polish nobility can be cultivated and brought.

[hmshistoricallyinaccurate]

This is what I picture Napoleon's ghost doing whenever someone brings up how short he was

[fritz-willi-3]

Friedrich Wilhelm III wrote in a letter to Luise that Tsar Alexander would gaze (dt.: fixieren) at pretty local women through his lorgnette and greet them during his horseback rides.

And I was curious what a lorgnette was.

Alex what the fuck

[cedyat]

[giogio-gruebel]

Pokemon trainer nappy based on his Egyptian campaigns :)

[dibbobrabbo]

Garfoleon Bonacat собственной персоной

[cedyat]

The kind of stuff you find on your hard drive while looking for something else…

[sunsolii]

Made a lil something for our half French-Scottish boi Macdonald since he doesn't get that much attention from the community

[kromozombz]

WADDUP WADDUP

[ic-napology]

WOAH HON

[marmont777]

？……

[cedyat]

Napoleon's flight from Elba but it is a video game from the year 1999.

[nerocoin]

i also made napoleon but i dont like how it came out so hes staying in the vault. im planning on making more so i will get back to him later

evil labubus

[vocimia]

first time posting anything ever

[bunniesandbeheadings]

One of the funniest things I ever read was (and I’m only slightly paraphrasing because I don’t remember it verbatim) “Marat used his journal to spur the illiterate rabble into acts of violence.”

And I’m like,

If that’s Marat’s plan there’s a rather glaring issue with it,,,

[bunniesandbeheadings]

@pilferingapples’ tags:

[cedyat]

Usually don't do birthday posts because I just forget these dates anyway, but at least here I could combine it with my resolution of drawing more women. So, here‘s Queen Louise of Prussia.

[tinybouquetbanana]

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[fritz-willi-3]

Happy 250th Birthday Luise!!!

[cedyat]

Man darf also gespannt bleiben 👀

Habe vor ein paar Tagen gelesen, dass der rbb zu ihrem Geburtstag ein Hörspiel veröffentlicht hat (hatte aber noch nicht die Zeit es zu hören), ist vielleicht für dich ja aber auch von Interesse.