Timeline for Reading a Swiss newspaper as a German learner
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| May 12, 2020 at 17:21 | history | edited | Joooeey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2020 at 17:20 | comment | added | Joooeey |
Thanks for the links! They tell the story quite well. It looks like the keyboard layout is the major difference to Germany which even introduced the uppercase eszett ẞ three years ago. And 'ban' is a really strong word for a country that doesn't appear to have an authority on grammar and orthography -- the NZZ printed the ß until 1974.
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| May 12, 2020 at 6:00 | comment | added | idmean | Offizieller Rechtschreibleitfaden: bk.admin.ch/dam/bk/de/dokumente/sprachdienste/sprachdienst_de/… Bzgl Tastatur: ds.uzh.ch/_files/uploads/presse/26.pdf | |
| May 11, 2020 at 20:09 | comment | added | Joooeey | bans? Do you have a source for that? And yes this issue definitely traces back to the typewriter. Which is where the current Swiss, German and US keyboard layouts originated. | |
| May 11, 2020 at 19:32 | comment | added | idmean | Official Swiss orthography bans the use of ß, which has been the case for more than 80 years now. So if related to keyboards at all, we would be talking about typewriters... (and whether that was really the reason is not entirely clear) | |
| May 11, 2020 at 11:24 | comment | added | Jessica | +1 for pronunciation. | |
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| May 9, 2020 at 10:54 | history | answered | Joooeey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |