From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:45:08 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-10-10T10:45:08-07:00 [thread overview]
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That's not a sharp s, ess-zet. It's simply the long s followed by the
round s, as was used some time ago in English.
Imagine the sentence "Where the bee sucks, there suck I" written with
long s (this to our modern eyes is easily mistaken as an f).
The round s was only used at word ends. Like in german Fraktur (and in
Sütterlin), where you have a long and a round s, long at the beginning
and in the middle, round s at the end of a word.
Today you see many a "Gasthaus" written in Fraktur with the wrong s,
the round one, where they should have used the long one.
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2011-10-10 16:30 sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 16:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-10 18:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 22:25 ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-11 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 7:41 ` sharp ß " Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 8:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 20:32 ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 9:42 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-10-12 12:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 20:17 ` sharp " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 21:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 17:33 ` sharp ß " Martin Krischik
2011-10-11 18:54 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-12 13:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 13:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 18:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 20:06 ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 20:48 ` sharp ß " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 22:56 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like AC CESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 8:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 12:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 13:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 15:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 7:33 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 14:32 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-11 17:26 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not) Martin Krischik
2011-10-12 12:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 17:22 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Simon Wright
2011-10-10 17:45 ` AdaMagica [this message]
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