Re: German style orthography

--- "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:28:17 -0800, bob thornton
> <arcanesock@...> wrote:
>
> >--- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> >
> >> Since word-initial |s| is always /z/ in German,
> I've
> >> seen |ß| used in
> >> transcriptions of foreign languages (e.g. "ßänks"
> >> for "thanks" in a
> >> tourist's guidebook/phrasebook of English) when
> the
> >> author wanted to
> >> make clear that an /s/ sound was intended. It
> looks
> >> a bit strange to
> >> me, though, since |ß| does not occur
> word-initially
> >> in any native
> >> German word.
> >>
> >
> >So, perhaps use eszett initially, and s medially
> for /z/?
>
> That would be possible. I've read that Jacob Grimm
> (one of the two
> fairy-tale Grimms) proposed to use the long &#383;
> for /z/ and round s for /s/,
> though he abandoned this proposition later.
Hrrrm. Interesting. I have noted suchlike in my notes.
How would one represent a syllabaic sound based upon
this orthography?

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-The Sock

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