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Old 01-23-2017, 08:14 AM   #64
AnselmD
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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
Amazing. I lived in Frankfurt the better part of a year; I must have said Wie gehts?! a thousand times, and never dreamed it was a contraction.
You learned by doing and not by studying. Ask a German child and it will not know either.

Therefore in the written language I prefer using an apostrophe (as omit character) to make it visible: here is something missing.
Wie geht’s?!
Wie geht's?!
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