Daniel Buncic via Unicode wrote in <[email protected]>: |Am 01.12.2024 um 04:15 schrieb Markus Scherer via Unicode: |> As a library implementer and German speaker, I have been looking out |> for the supposed sea change in usage, and haven't seen it. | |There are three things that make the change less visible. First, domain |names and other ASCII environments as well as stylistic devices. I live |in a town called Brühl and work in a city called Köln (which has its own |top-level domain, .koeln). You see a surprising number of signage, |logos, etc. which spell the names as “Bruehl” or “Koeln”: | https://www.cvjm.koeln/ueber-uns/175-jahre.html | https://mhi-koeln.de/ | http://kleinbahn.koeln/ | https://koeln-weekend.de/ | https://www.ebay.de/str/koelnartkunsthandel
Not surprising but tradition. Please let me attach a colourized photographie of Köln from when Germany still had an emperor, with hand painted plaques, and on the plaque of the ferry (beside the ponton bridge) one can read "Ueberfahrt nach Köln". (A bit size reduced but readable.) ... |A few years ago, the number of capital ẞ you could see was exactly zero. | Now they are popping up more and more. For the above reasons, they |are not the majority yet, but they are increasing fast. Language change |is happening in front of our eyes. Because you get urged by the wind, that is the reason. And yes, it gets more schizophrenic now you can use this letter but have to write aufwändiger Missstand instead of aufwendiger Mißstand. But nice to read your fluent german, i do not often speak in my native language! --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |And in Fall, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s ball(s). | |The banded bear |without a care, |Banged on himself for e'er and e'er | |Farewell, dear collar bear
