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Edvard:
maybe *you* have a fifter I could kiff ?
-tomos (August 29, 2013, 06:20 PM)
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fo forry, fad to fay no fifter.  :(-cranioscopical (August 29, 2013, 08:39 PM)
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Actually, that would be 'kiſs your ſiſter', consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'w. 
Glad to see it go, really.  I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...

cranioscopical:
maybe *you* have a fifter I could kiff ?
-tomos (August 29, 2013, 06:20 PM)
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fo forry, fad to fay no fifter.  :(-cranioscopical (August 29, 2013, 08:39 PM)
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Actually, that would be 'kiſs your ſiſter', consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'w. 
Glad to see it go, really.  I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...
-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)
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True, but I haven't a long s on my f-ing keyboard   :o
 

tomos:
consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'w.-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)
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I guess that would be related to the German "scharfes S" (= "ß" ~ "ss"/"sz").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
Even though long s has otherwise disappeared from German orthography, ß is still used as a ligature and is replaced by 'SS' or 'SZ' in capitalized spelling. Its German name is Eszett, the lexicalized expression for "sz", from "es-zed") or scharfes S, "sharp S").
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seems to indicate that it co-existed with the "long s"...


I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...
-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)
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and here I thought all along that you were this real chilled out kind of guy ;-) :p

Edvard:
and here I thought all along that you were this real chilled out kind of guy ;-) :p
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 ;D  Well, actually, my reaction to most grammar and spelling mistakes:



So... yeah.  ;)

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