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sebs

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Re: Learning German
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2010, 04:14:35 pm »
Quote from: DJ on November 09, 2010, 03:53:22 pm
I've never seen æ, ø, þ or ð in German writing, only in Icelandic and possibly in Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish. And hasn't ß been replaced with ss?

For æ we use ä, ø is ö, we don't know þ and ð  and have difficulties to pronounce them in other languages. ß has only been replaced in most words: If the vocal before it is a short one (Fluss) we use ss, if it is a long one (Spaß) or a diphthong (Fleiß), we use ß. Historically, ß is just a typographic ligature of ſs. ſ is an old form of s that was used whenever the s was not a word's final letter.

The swiss have replaced ß completely (not sure if they had it once) with ss.
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Re: Learning German
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2010, 04:39:30 pm »
I didn't mean to say that they're part of the German alphabet, it was just for demonstration. Oh yeah, and þ does show up in Old High German :P
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Re: Learning German
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2010, 04:43:17 pm »
Sorry, I had mistaken it for a question. I didn't mean to question your knowledge.
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Re: Learning German
« Reply #18 on: November 10, 2010, 05:06:58 pm »
Awesome language.  I like the way there is a kindof logic in there, it's fun to speak and... well, Germany's a very nice place to visit.

That said, I only know enough German to be a tourist and to have some basic conversations, so...
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Re: Learning German
« Reply #19 on: November 10, 2010, 05:14:13 pm »
Quote from: stummel on November 03, 2010, 02:32:40 pm
best online-dictionary for german-english (should be fine the other-way-round, bonus - it's from my hometown):

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/

Quote from: Puck on November 03, 2010, 07:20:38 am
I'm also a native german speaker, but I LOVE the language.

yeah!

I recommend http://dict.leo.org/ , a nice English-German one.
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