16 Mar
2022
16 Mar
'22
10:29 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 05:17:46PM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote:
So Eiwei-ßes may in fact be correct... But I assume that Arthur has some authoritative answer to this question.
I’ll refer to the German hyphenation pattern list as an authority (https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/trennmuster) :-) But I do believe that you, Thomas, are right and that Eiwei-ßes is correct (while Ei-weißes is much better anyway). It is in fact logical: ‘ß’ in the new spelling means that the preceding sound is long, hence it has to be spelt that way always, not “analysed” as ‘ss’. If you were to hyphenate Straße as Stras-se, it would indicate a different pronunciation. Best, Arthur