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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, March 17, 2001, 18:54
Henrik Theiling wrote:
>Hi! > >Aidan Grey <frterminus@...> writes: > > > > ie, man is crazy ;) > > > It's also Italian for kisses _baci_ isn't it? > >And German `Tschüß' (Bye, bye) sounds like `qu si': go die! >Speakers of Mandarin must think Germans have strange habits.
Isn't _tschüss_ the proper spelling nowadays? According the the new spelling conventions "ß" is only to be used after long vowels and diphthongs, IIRC. Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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