Re: German question: Bundesgesundheitsamt
| From: | Marcel Bollmann <bollmann@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 23, 2002, 1:42 |
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:45:26 +0100, you wrote:
>Whether to use -s- or not seems to be magic anyway. People don't
>agree on usage for many words (Schafkäse vs. Schafskäse (= `sheep
>cheese')).
How true! Some weeks ago, while watching TV, I regularly heard one
particular word: "Schadenersatz". It sounded rather strange to my ears
and still does. I always feel this urge to put an 's' into it:
"Schadensersatz". In fact, I didn't really know that the version without
the 's' was correct at all.
- Marcel