Loren Szendre schrieb:

> 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).

I've learned a couple of replacements for the "__" in German writing, 
like "sz" and "hs". These replacements look somewhat similar in older 
fonts, and their ligatures may be the root of the "__". The "sz" also may 
be a (wrong) decomposition of the old and phonetically closest "hs" 
ligature, resulting from an attempt to mimic its look in an different font.


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