Re: [OT] Typo, someone was asking?
Re: [OT] Typo, someone was asking?
- Subject: Re: [OT] Typo, someone was asking?
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:16:11 +0100
At 03:41 -0500 UTC, on 2004/10/30, Dennis W. Manasco wrote:
[...]
> I am almost certain that my college German
> professor (who was ancient when I took the class
> in the '70s) referred to the character as a
> blaustaff (my spelling may be off: she pronounced
> it as "blauw-staff, where the "auw" was
> pronounced like the "ow" in cow).
>
> Could Mark or a native German speaker comment on this?
I asked 3 german friends independantly: They all consider "Eszett" to be
correct, one even pointing to the official german spelling source
<http://www.duden.de/> claiming only Eszett to be 'correct' (and mentioning
that even Mac OS X's built-in spellchecker only accepts Eszett, not Eszet let
alone Esset :)). They all knew of the name "Ringel-s" but thought it somewhat
uncommon. All were surprised and even gigglish about "blaustaff". They all
agreed that "sharp s" is correct, 'though not official.
> Is blaustaff some unspeakable obscenity
For one of my friends the immediate association was "Blaustrumpf", which
apparently is german for "dike" (in the homo-sexual sense, not in the water
defense system sense ;)). Might say more about her than about german of
course ;)
Some english pages naming it "Ringel-s" can be found through Google:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=german+language+"Ringel+s">
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/�> is also interesting. If only because it
clearly states and explains that "beta" is most definitely wrong and even
blames Mac OS! I guess that brings this thread somewhat back on topic ;)
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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