Mustang posted:

What's he thinking about ???

Karate Bastard posted:

We dropped the long s so we could have the cool s.

root beer posted:

If we kept it we could have the uncool s

Or P, whatever, idk. gently caress. I give up.

Pookah posted:

I'm reading a book about the cultural history of Christmas and found this illustration:



Seems like crappy toilet humor books made solely to be gag Chistmas gifts are extremely traditional - this one is from 1761.
I count 5 poop jokes, though I am probably missing some. For easy of reading, the funny-looking Fs are S's

Nenonen posted:

PYF Funny Pictures: For fome Men read – but all Men —.

OwlFancier posted:

I do enjoy "I wish I was a turd in the shithouse so I could see my girlfriend's arse even if she just shat me out, lol"

big king charles energy.

LifeSunDeath posted:

LifeSunDeath posted:

dusty rear end stillsuit bussy

Cocaine Bear posted:

Kinda looks like a dick and balls ngl.

OwlFancier posted:

The text of this furvivef if you are interefted.

https://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1700s/1730s_bog-house_miscellany/part_1_3rd_edition_(HC)/index.htm

Starts off strong with one about a friar eating rear end.

sick of Applebees posted:

What's a srier?

Milo and POTUS posted:

I don't see it

Scratch Monkey posted:

Megillah Gorilla posted:

ſo glad we dropped the long s.

canyoneer posted:

Germany keeps on keepin' on with their weird s, the ß. The primary purpose in the year 2023 is probably to confuse foreigners

canyoneer posted:

Germany keeps on keepin' on with their weird s, the ß. The primary purpose in the year 2023 is probably to confuse foreigners

DrBouvenstein posted:

Scratch Monkey posted:

canyoneer posted:

Germany keeps on keepin' on with their weird s, the ß. The primary purpose in the year 2023 is probably to confuse foreigners

canyoneer posted:

Germany keeps on keepin' on with their weird s, the ß. The primary purpose in the year 2023 is probably to confuse foreigners

canyoneer posted:

Germany keeps on keepin' on with their weird s, the ß. The primary purpose in the year 2023 is probably to confuse foreigners

Phlegmish posted:

And another thing, why do they keep capitalizing all of their nouns. What is up with that, just chill, Germans

Milo and POTUS posted:

I don't see it

Phlegmish posted:

And another thing, why do they keep capitalizing all of their nouns. What is up with that, just chill, Germans

Phlegmish posted:

And another thing, why do they keep capitalizing all of their nouns. What is up with that, just chill, Germans

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/oPwhObM.mp4

canyoneer posted:

Germany keeps on keepin' on with their weird s, the ß. The primary purpose in the year 2023 is probably to confuse foreigners

steinrokkan posted:

Back at school they taught us that the Germans were getting rid of their weird s and replacing it with "ss", but now it's years later and they are still using the cancelled letter! What's up with that, explain yourselves, Germans

Shai-Hulud posted:

We got rid of the SS years ago but don't worry, we're on a good road to bring it back!

English Wiki’s Rechtscriebreform ‘96 article posted:

ß and ss: In reformed orthography the grapheme ß (a modernised typographical rendering of how ss: 18, 21  appeared in traditional Gothic script; it is seldom used in Switzerland) is considered a separate letter that is to appear only after long vowels and diphthongs. In general in German, long stressed vowels are followed by single consonants, and short stressed vowels by double consonants. In the traditional orthography, ß was written instead of ss if the s phoneme belonged to only one syllable, thus in terminal position and before consonants ss was always written as ß, without regard to the length of the preceding vowel. In the reformed orthography, a short stressed vowel is never followed by ß. This brings it into line with the two-letter spelling of other final consonants (-ch, -ck, -dt, -ff, -ll, -mm, -nn, -rr, -tt, -tz). Thus Fass [fas] – Fässer [ˈfɛsɐ], by analogy to Ball [bal] – Bälle [ˈbɛlə]; compare the old spelling: Faß – Fässer, in contrast to Maß [maːs] – Maße [ˈmaːsə] like Tal [taːl] – Täler [ˈtɛːlɐ].

Nevertheless, the new German spelling is not fully phonemic, and it is still necessary to know the plural of a noun in order to spell its singular correctly: Los [loːs] – Lose [ˈloːzə], Floß [floːs] – Flöße [ˈfløːsə] (note that it is however phonemic; [citation needed] [clarification needed] cf. the usage of voiced versus voiceless plosives at word end).[citation needed]

Exempted from change are certain very common short-vowelled words which end in a single 's' (such as das, es), echoing other undoubled final consonants in German (e.g. ab, im, an, hat, -ig). So the frequent error of confusing the conjunction dass (previously daß) and the relative pronoun das has remained a trap: Ich hoffe, dass sie kommt. (I hope that she comes.) Das Haus, das dort steht. (The house that stands there.) Both are pronounced [das].

The so-called s rule makes up over 90% of the words changed by the reform. Since a trailing -ss does not occur in the traditional orthography (which uses -ß instead), the -ss at the end of reformed words like dass and muss (previously muß) is now the only quick and sure sign to indicate that the reformed spelling has been used, even if just partly, in texts (except those of Swiss origin). All other changes are encountered less frequently and not in every text.