Am Freitag, 31. M?rz 2006 13:39 schrieb Robert Kaiser: > Petr Van?k schrieb: > > Dne ?tvrtek 30 b?ezen 2006 23:39 avox napsal(a): > >> Petr Van?k-2 wrote: > >>> sure. Esp. that there is smaller set of accents in Cz than in De ;) > >> > >> In your dreams, mate! German only has ??? and ?. > >> Whereas Czech has even words which alone have four different accents, > >> like "T??vr??". Just looking at the Czech sample text makes me dizzy... > >> :-) > > > > hehe, ok, ok, I was wrong... btw is that '?' still in use? I've heard > > something about replacing by 'ss' in modern Deutsch. > > Only in a small set of cases where it made sense,
except that it doesn't make any sense at all. Texts have become harder to read (Essst?rung, Messergebnis das/dass), and children and adults alike make more "s"-mistakes than ever before! > i.e. now there's a > general rule that it's 'ss' after a short vocal, Wrong! ss after short vowel where in common spelling an ? is written. You have to learn the "old" rule before you can correctly apply the "new" one. > and that's not changing > in different forms of the word. Huh? Do you still believe those lies? > After long vocals and diphthongs > the '?' is still used Not to mention 70-80 % of the population who don't care about the craziness of some bureaucrats and who write "?" as it is appropriate. > > (except in Switzerland, where it's been 'ss' for ages to not need an > additional character on their keyboards, as they have three official > languages in the country). > > Robert Kaiser Christoph
