Re: USAGE: How to tell syllables apart (was: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton")

Did I miss something?  It seems I read in recent messages:
1) "ss" if in different syllables, "ß" if in the same syllable.
2) How do you tell if there are two different syllables?
3) If it's "ss," then there are two different syllables, if "ß," then
they are in the same syllable.
????????????

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@Y...>
wrote:
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:18:20 +0100, Joe <joe@W...> wrote:

>Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
>
>>>The rules for the usage of the |ß|,
>>>BTW, have been simplified in the spelling reform.
>>
>>Nope, the exact opposite is true.
>>Before: ss if the two s fall into different syllables (Mes-ser),
else ß.
>
>Tell me, how do you tell that the two are in different syllables?

If it's |ss|, then it's two syllables; if it's |ß|, then only one. :)

In Switzerland, we have: |heis-sen|, whereas in Germany/Austria/etc.
they
have |hei-ßen|. That means that you can't decide whether to have an
|ß|
based on syllable division. The old rules were more complicated.

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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