Hi Tony!
On Do, 24 Jan 2013, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> What do you mean, "the Swiss may think otherwise"? IIUC, in the
> de_CH standard the eszett is not used, it is always replaced by ss,
> because the Swiss have no room for it on their trilingual (well,
> quadrilingual, even) typewriter keyboards. Hence the well-known slur
> against them:
>
> — Wie trinken die Schweizer Bier?
> ("How do the Swiss drink beer?")
> — In Masse.
> ("massively", where for any other German-speaking country except
> maybe Liechtenstein it would of course be "in Maße", "in
> moderation").
I thought the Swiss used to replace ß by sz but that is apparently
wrong, as you pointed out correctly.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian
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