Re: CONLANG Digest - 18 Mar 2000 to 19 Mar 2000 (#2000-78)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 22, 2000, 16:31 |
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At 13:09 20.3.2000 -0600, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>. The German boards did, though,
>have umlauted tiles for vowels, although I don't seem to remember any
>tile for the ess-zett.
That's because ess-zett can't be capitalized. It becomes SS in
caps. (Actually it *should* become SZ, with sz as a permissible l-c
stand-in. Beats me why not. German Polonophobia, maybe? ;-)
/BP
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