2026-04-10 12:40 UTC
@sebvandenbrink@mastodon.nl Honestly, outside of not using it as the first letter, I don't really get the rules, even after 10 years of living here. There's a street/station called "Beusselstraße", no idea why the first "ss" is not an ß...
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@mirjamsterdam@mastodon.green 2026-04-10 16:41
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @sebvandenbrink@mastodon.nl I think it’s because it was named after a person whose name was spelled like that.
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@malte@anticapitalist.party 2026-04-10 17:05
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @sebvandenbrink@mastodon.nl it's a remnant from the older german font-styles where writing "sz" looked like "ß", and i think we should/could slowly phase it out 🤷♀️