Re: german so-called umlaute in dosshell

From: Jan Gelbrich <j_gelbrich_at_westfalen-blatt.de>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:44:34 +0200
Message-ID: <c74pv8$i8bul$1@ID-93924.news.uni-berlin.de>

>
> Thought the Ringel-S (ß) was dropped from the official definition, and
> replace by ss?
> --
>
> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
>

True, ß (Ess-Zett) is dropped officially, but You know, old habits are hard to break ... You will find people using ß in the next 10 years, including myself from time to time ...
(Ich denke, daß man noch 10 Jahre so schreibt :)

If in English ph would be dropped for pure f (which had been done in the Scandinavian languages long ago), how many poeple would switch over to it at once ? Only the minority would, because "fone number" or "filosofer" or "fysics" would just look somewhat strange to most people ...

Greetings from Germany
Jan Received on Mon May 03 2004 - 01:44:34 CDT