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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by brusch64 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:09AM (#14694111)
Really ?

As someone who speaks natively German, can you give me an example or a source for this ?

ß is after a long vocal, ss is after a short vocal. I don't know any regional problems with that (and I come from a region with a VERY different language than most of the German speaking people)

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by stewbrew on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:32AM (#14694668)
The op claimed it makes no difference if you write words with ss or ß. I simply claimed it makes a difference in standard language but certain dialects differ from that so that many people don't know/hear/speak certain words correctly and thus don't understand the difference. For some words, both forms are said to be correct (e.g. Geschoss and Geschoß) but not for all.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by taejo on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:22AM (#14694874)
BTW, the English word for Vokal is vowel, not vocal (which means something else).
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by brusch64 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:17AM (#14695394)
Oops - thank you.
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