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

Zey are sscrewed!

Actually, when I used German keyboards over there they worked okay, except that the y and z for some reason were transposed, making for lots of corrections.

11 posted on 08/13/2004 10:13:09 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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To: struwwelpeter
except that the y and z for some reason were transposed,

QWERTZ?

Is the Z used more than Y in German? Wasn't QWERTY originally designed to slow down typists enough so as to allow
the mechanically levered typewriters to work without jamming?

15 posted on 08/13/2004 10:47:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: struwwelpeter

Fortunately for us, English has very simple rules.

i before e except after c, though is pronounced thow with the th pronounced softly, unless you follow it with a t, then it becomes a hard th, and ough is pronounced "ah". But if you you insert an "r" after the th, then you pronounce the ough "ooo". bow is pronounced like bough unless it is pronounced like boe and in bow and arrow. X is pronounced as a "z" when it is the first letter of a word, sign is pronounced "syne" unless it is followed by "ature", then the "g" must be pronounced and the i is pronounced like the "i" in "sin". to is pronounced 2 just like "two" is and "too" is. Of is pronounced "ov" unless there are two "f"'s. Then it's pronounced "awf". Oven is pronounced "uvven" unless a "w" is placed in front, then the "o" is pronounced "oh". And that's just the beginning folks.........just the beginning.


16 posted on 08/13/2004 10:50:08 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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