Football Tags on German Ebay.

Christian,we don't have that German letter that represents the double 'S' on our keyboards,so I posted the nearest equivilant.

Aidan.

 

I'll bet you do somewhere! If not here is mine, you can borrow it for now. ' ß '

 

No problem - actually in the German speaking part of Switzerland, for example, the ß is not used at all. As OldDan suggested, you can certainly "type" it. But that requires switching to a different keyboard layout or pressing some key combo. So Fussball is OK ... as long as one does not pronounce the first syllable "the English way".

Christian

 

Maybe you will get "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby for Christmas next year.

Christian

 

Christian,what is the special name for the German letter that is used to represent the double 'S' called? I read somewhere that there was a proposal to abolish the use of this letter,but the plan was binned in the face of huge opposition.Is this letter in use in Austria as well?

Aidan.

 

Usually it is called "scharfes s" (sharp s), and yes, there have been various proposals to do away with it. Partly because it is a lowercase-only character (there is no such thing as a "capital ß"), partly since the Swiss Germans - unlike the other German speaking communities - do not use it, and for other reasons.

This is how the "ß" developed. Note the Fuss example.
http://www.decodeunicode.org/data/w/Wandlung_eszett_01.tiff
The "long s" depicted is not used in German any more, except if you want to use the Fraktur types for some reason, which can be found on coins from Nazi Germany for example.

The latest "spelling reform" replaced the "ß" with "ss" in some cases (primarily after a short vowel) but it is not completely gone. And many ignore the reform anyway, so you will still see it a lot ...

Christian

 

You got that right!

 

By the way, the auction of the "Germany" tag ended ... and somebody actually paid €11,250 for this thing.

http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/nachrichten/medien/169469
(Article in German)

England currently is at €2,540 and US at $1,325 according to that article. Crazy fans.

Christian

 

All I can say is

'CRAZY'​

De Orc :headbang: