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

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:52:48 -0400, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:21:59 -0000, caeruleancentaur
><caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
>
>>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.
>>????????????
>
>Well, 3) is obviously nonsense, so I'll tell you how I learned in
>elementary school how to tell syllables apart:
>1) If it's at the end of a word (or at the end of a compound), then it's
>just one syllable and thus always "ß".
>2) In the middle of a word, you look at the word's origin. E.g.:
>- Is "heißen" (to be named) derived from "heiß" (hot)? No, it is not, so
>the syllables are "hei-ßen" (and NOT "heis-sen"), and thus you use a "ß".
>- "messen" is derived from "Maß" (or the compound "Meß-"), and thus the
>syllables are "mes-sen" (and NOT "me-ßen").
No. According to that reasoning, words that are derived from |heiß| would be
spelled with |ss|, e.g. |*heisser| (hotter). However, it's |heißer|, both in
old and in new spelling (except in Switzerland).

Have a look at a recent post of mine if you want to learn the rules of the
old spelling:

http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0410b&L=conlang&P=10422

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust