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Originally Posted by Doitsu
@HarryT: There was an ill-fated spelling reform in Germany in 1996 that most notably changed the spelling of the German ß [=ss] digraph. (It's still there, but it's used in fewer words.)
You can easily tell pre-1996 books apart from more recent books by looking for "daß" [= that (conj.)]. If you see "daß," the book was most likely originally published before 1996. (Post-1996 books use "dass.")
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Yes, I know. When I doing evening classes in German at the time, my teacher was furious about the "neue Rechtschreibung". She said that most German academics had ignored the invitation to participate in discussions with the German government about the matter because nobody believed they'd ever be stupid enough to actually try to introduce it
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