Post A3KSITtQTC73xmlb8K by codepuppy@mathstodon.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #A3KS7jPyPMpOvZrflI by Anke@social.scribblers.club
       2021-01-17T12:42:23Z
       
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       ß is the German letter/ligature sz which used to be always lowercaseẞ is the uppercase SZ, which has been part of German orthography only since 2017. (Before that, if you wrote a word with ß in allcaps, you'd replace ß with SS)β is a lowercase beta, a Greek letterhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F#German #language
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KS7jlx5ePQ1k9E1I by InvaderXan@writing.exchange
       2021-01-17T12:48:21Z
       
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       @Anke Oh, I never realised it was a ligature with a long s!
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KSITtQTC73xmlb8K by codepuppy@mathstodon.xyz
       2021-01-17T12:50:19Z
       
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       @InvaderXan @anke Ikr!  I had no idea until I Ctrl-F'd for ß once with Ignore Case on and it started selecting all the "ss"'s in the text XD
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KTp3b5MFjDv1Hkfo by Anke@social.scribblers.club
       2021-01-17T13:07:24Z
       
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       @InvaderXan I kinda wish long s still were a thing. It looks like it would compound words easier to parse.
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KUmoq5MCAnWRnXw8 by InvaderXan@writing.exchange
       2021-01-17T13:18:13Z
       
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       @Anke To be fair, it does look a lot like a lowercase f. I can't speak for German, but it's easy to misread things in older English texts because of it. Although maybe that's just because I'm not used to reading them.
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KVWPpSfyQbHAFSwy by Anke@social.scribblers.club
       2021-01-17T13:26:27Z
       
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       @InvaderXan Yeah, using a form that does not have half the crossbar that a lowercase f has might help with that.