Re: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton"

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:13:27 -0400, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
>On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:28:51 -0400, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
wrote:
>> He doesn't have to use the |ß|, irrespective of old or new spelling,
>> since he's one of the four million living proofs that you can perfectly
>> write and read German without any |ß|: He's Swiss.
>
> So they don't use any ß at all? How odd... O_o
>
>> The rules for the usage of the |ß|,
>> BTW, have been simplified in the spelling reform.
>
> Nope, the exact opposite is true.
> Before: ss if the two s fall into different syllables (Mes-ser), else ß.
> After: You must now also see if the vowel before is long. If yes, you
> still have to use it. To most people this is too much hassle, so they
> just ignore this and intentionally misspell the words because they can't
> be bothered.
>
>--
>Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton
>official Choton homepage:
>http://www.choton.org
The really weird thing is that the "after" method is what I was taught in
German class 30+ years ago! (along with rhotic R's, the genitive case, etc.)

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