[RegulatorCountry]

The stylized capital B is a double s.

[Red Badger]

They weird ‘B’ is pronounced like it was a double S....................

[ClearCase_guy]

Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but can’t you cut and paste that letter from some random site?

ließen

Put that in a translation program and you don’t need to find the letter on your keyboard.

[Red Badger]

https://www.freetranslation.com/

[Red Badger]

On the link I posted, there’s a little keyboard in the lower left corner that has all the characters you need for that particular language...............

[central_va]

The Awful German Language

By Mark Twain.

[Red Badger]

Junge Burgersohne, die bisher Sportseglermutzen getragen hatten, ließen sie jetzt lieber zu Hause

Translated as:

Young citizens without previously worn hats sports sailors had to stay at home, let them now.

Kinda lost something in the translation..............

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[Katya]

its liessen ( the B is a double s)
“now leave them at home”

[Blennos]

Young fellows, who had previously worn sporty sailor-caps, now preferred to leave them at home.

[knittnmom]

I don’t speak or read German, but Wikipedia has a nice phonetic guide to German letters - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography#Alphabet

[alexander_busek]

Have been a professional translator, living in Germany, for the past 35 years.

Using Google Translate - or any non-human translator - is a terrible idea.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

Junge Burgersohne, die bisher

The Umlaute are missing, also.

Should read: "Junge Bürgersöhne" (i.e., young, high-status males).

Regards,

[Wilhelm Tell]

Imagine you are taking something written in one dialect of English you barely understand and you are rewriting it into another dialect of English. There will be many phrases where you understand the literal words but you won’t understand the true meaning. You won’t even know you are missing something. Now multiply that. Google translate might do okay with something simple like “attach part A to part B” but not much beyond that. A good translation is art and the translator needs to have a very good fluent knowledge of the source language and also the culture and be able to bring that in a translation that will be readable and accurate.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

"Ich glaube, du hast in die hosen geschissen." (From Till Eulenspiegel)

[Sans-Culotte]

When I studied German (decades ago), the instructors always called the B-looking thing that stands for a double S an “S-set”.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

In a former life I used Alta vista to translate, it worked pretty good. I think it is still around.

[Fiji Hill]

Use Google Translate with caution. It’s not always accurate.

[wafflehouse]

first off, google translate is not going to give you a good translation. ive used it extensively. sometimes it is completely wrong.

second, in the windows control panel -> region and language -> keyboards and languages tab -> change keyboards

you should be able to click 'add' and add a german keyboard that will allow you to type the missing letters.

[Bringbackthedraft]

LOL, even today’s Germans have trouble reading the old script.