[supercat]

What did Germans do when using computers that cannot produce the esszet character?

[GSlob]

Do they have a better language skills than Martin Luther? If not, shouldn't they leave well enough alone?

[HAL9000]

Mark Twain - "The Awful German Language."

[martin_fierro]

Ich bin ein misspeller.

[xJones]

"At a time when there's a feeling English is encroaching upon German more and more, the Germans have been thinking about their language more and more, and the spelling reform has played a key role in that."

They're getting more like the French every day. But the Germans should be more worried about the encroaching Turkish language.

[explodingspleen]

Forget spelling, can they do something about all those dang rules for adjective ending, and making plurals? I mean, there are what, 52 possible different adjective endings? That's nuts!

Fyi, they already changed their alphabet and cut down what was once dozens of comma rules to something like 4. Just about everyone in Germany speaks English. Maybe someday they will wise-up and drop German altogether.

But keep the esszet (Scharfe's 'S'?). It is cool.

[henderson field]

In other words, ebonics for the Germans. I'll bet they're sorry they lost the war now.