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Re: German style orthography

From:bob thornton <arcanesock@...>
Date:Thursday, December 9, 2004, 16:13
--- "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:

> [I've used unicode in this message, but I don't know > how to tell the > web-interface to mark this message as UTF-8 > encoded.] > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:29:35 -0800, bob thornton > <arcanesock@...> wrote: > > >/D/ ð (edh) > > I have the impression that nineteenth century German > linguistics would > rather use đ (d with stroke).
Ah. It's just that my ds are curved like edh, and I am trying to make my notes and orthography combine in a coherent way. But, yes, that makes sense.
> > >/s/ s > >/s_m/ ß (esszat) > >/z/ s > >/z_m/ ß (esszat) > > I guess that if eszett would be used for a > pronunciation, then rather for > /s/, as opposed to |s| for /z/.
Question: How is /s/ represented in German as of now? ===== -The Sock "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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