On 06/01/2014 01:56 AM, malenki wrote:
On 30.05.2014 16:27, Alan McConchie wrote:
Leavenworth is a former logging town that has been turned into a mock
Bavarian village as a tourist attraction. So I'm not surprised that
they are adding "Weg" to their streets to seem more Germanic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington
If they want to have the street and its name even more and real German,
they should name it "Edelweißweg" since Edelweiß in German is written
with "ß"¹, in composed German words no white spaces are used –
and Germans are usually great nitpickers in criticizing such trivia. :)
Thomas
¹ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiß_(Gattung)
However, if they did so, most English-speakers would probably pronounce
it "Eidelwebweg", since English lacks that character.
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