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Originally Posted by rostasi
The esset can be pretty confusing to those
who don't speak German. I found that out
when my sweetheart was looking at a street
sign in, I think, Frankfurt and was at a total
loss. I kind of laughed, but I already knew it
from German language studies when I was a
youngster. A lot of it really does come back
when you have the chance to interact with
the community. I just love it! It ("the guttural")
probably comes from my German (mother's side)
and Ukrainian (father's side) heritage.
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The letter is btw called an "sz" (eszett), which kinda explains what it is
it's a mixture between an s and a z. We also call it a "sharp s".
So there are words like "Straße"(street), or "Scheiße"(sh*t), where we use it.
There are also words, that, when I was younger(before 1996), were written with an sz, but now are are written with a double s,
words like "daß" (today it's "dass") or "Kuß" ("Kiss", today it's Kuss)