Comment 32 for bug 650498
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| Joshua Krämer (joshua-kraemer) wrote Re: Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) | #32 |
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Bruno Maag, you seem to be very badly informed.
To begin with, the German Eszett is *not* a ligature of long and short s. Such a ligature arose in the Italian humanist script, but it has nothing to do with the German Eszett. During the High German consonant shift, the germanic "t" partially became a sharply spoken "s" (compare English "eat" with German "essen"). In Old High German, this sound was written as "z", "zz", and later as "sz", which evolved into the letter ß, now no longer understood as a ligature (like w is no longer understood as a v-v-ligature). You can read more about the origin of the ß in Prof. Dr. Brekle's excellent article in the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2001, available online here:
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Tschicholds strange believings, which had no historic basis, are rebutted long ago.
Secondly, you're mistaken in believing that an upper case ß is unhistoric. The long s existed in the Semiuncialis even before the differentitation of upper and lower case existed!
I urge you to update your knowledge and reconsider your opinions.