Hello,
Loren Szendre wrote:
> One last question: if you are using, say an old American typewriter, > and you have to represent "Stra__e", you couldn't type "Strase", > because that would be pronounced "shtraza" -- so are you saying there > is no way to represent the word in Americangelese without the s-set? > For instance, we can replace "__" with "ae" (even in German, I > believe).
you can substitute '__' with 'ss' in such cases.
FWIW, the Swiss always do that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F#Switzerland_and_Liechtenstein
-- Moritz
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