Re: CONLANG Digest - 18 Mar 2000 to 19 Mar 2000 (#2000-78)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 23, 2000, 18:40 |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
> 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? ;-)
Aesthetics. It once did, and I was taught to type "sz" on English
typewriters when transcribing German, but now "ss" and "SS" are
standard with the new orthography.
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