The curious ß

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Everything you need to know about the German letter ß. Music: "Style Funk" and "Hot Swing" by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com Sound effects by: Soundsnap http://soundsnap.com RICHERlandTV http://freesound.org Related videos: The umlaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZaDijq3M2U Fractured Scripts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-jJ20k9L6w --------- Send letters and postcards to: Rewboss Postfach 10 06 29 63704 Aschaffenburg Germany Please don't send parcels or packages, or anything that has to be signed for. --------- My website: http://www.rewboss.com/ My blog: http://rewboss.blogspot.com/ My Twitter feed: http://www.twitter.com/rewboss My Google+ page: https://google.com/+rewboss

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I think it is a good thing to use ß instead of ss in most cases. i mean, the Maßen and Massen example is very good and shows how important the ß is. But also for correct spelling it is necessary to differentiate between ss and ß, Straße for me is always written this way, because it is spoken long...ss for me (and most other people) is spoken fast so it sounds strange. But just my opinion.

Also, no one would judge you if you write it with ß (except some teachers)
Toll
Why not just get rid of it, and make shit simpler just like English. /s
seppx
sexe
You're cute and so is your caricature. Regards from suburbs of NYC.
Holy Shit ! I am german and you just taught me something about my language ,I didn't know . Thank you .
Ganz offensichtlich spinnen die Deutschen XD Aber ich liebe das ß <3
Kein Plan warum, war schon immer so ^^
In uppercase letters "ß" is written as "SZ". For example at "500 SCHUSZ"..
If you don't have a german keyboard layout, press Alt+225 (on the numpad)
Twei pea nuts vere valking down de straße. En won was, a salted! Deustche, Deustche, über alles, über alles in der welt.
Under any circumstances, You may never use B instead of ß. How about using β (Greek letter Beta) instead of ß? My dad thought ß was the Greek letter β.
Is the english s sound never used in beginning of german words?
When do you use single s, sz, double ss or ß
I thought it was called "Ringel s", but you never even mentioned that. How come?
When I first started learning German i thought it came from the greek letter β (beta) since in most modern fonts they look so similar, I didn't know it had such an interesting history behind it!
This is so confusing...
Are the people who think up rules that Germans must use for their language government officials, or are they just people who do this instead of spending a little more time on the toilet?
I stopped at 44 secs because just about everything said was just incorrect! I am Austrian btw...
Dear Andrew,
there can be another explanation for calling the "ß" a "sz". In Hungarian the letters "sz" stand for the unvoiced "s" as in "Fuß", whereas the single "s" stands for the "ʃ" as in "Schuh".
YS twinmama
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