Buddle traveling to Germany to sign with FC Ingolstadt [R]

I have to admit that I don't really care about Ingolstadt, nobody does. I don't even know many of their players. Neutral soccer fans keep an eye on Bochum, Hertha, Aachen, 1860, Duisburg, maybe Osnabrück and Karlsruhe in BL2, but Ingolstadt don't get much attention. They don't affect you emotionally, don't have a fanbase, and very few people here regard it as "fun" to busy yourself with Ingolstadt. I'd prefer Oberhausen, Karlsruhe, Osnabrück and Union staying up.

 

Well you can prepare to be disappointed

 

Well, us YA posters care about it now! Gooooo Ingolstadt!

 

[FONT=&quot]Buddle expected to start on Sunday when Ingolstadt travel to Düsseldorf [/FONT]


http://www.donaukurier.de/sport/fus...-in-Duesseldorf-eine-Chance-;art19158,2380665
Kirschstein - Bambara, Biliskov, Matip, Fink - Metzelder, Karl - Buchner, Caiuby - Leitl, Buddle

 

Here's a bit of useless trivia - Düßeldorf is a rarity for a non-Russian team with two Sascha's on its roster (Rösler and Dum).

 

You can't write Düsseldorf with "ß." Just FYI. The Düssel river, which lends it's name to the city, was always written "ss," as far as I know.

 

I believe the "ü" in "Düsseldorf" is considered a short vowel like in "Kuss" (kiss) and therefore it is to use the double "s". In a long vowel like Fuß (foot), it uses the Eszett or "ß".

 

Yeah, I just didn't think it was really the time for a debate on German orthography.

 

how do you even make those characters on a keyboard or do you just copy and paste them from the interwebs?

 

I just have my keyboard set to German layout, which is easy on a Mac. I think you can do "ß" with alt + 225 on an American keyboard.

 

Well, a standard German keyboard would have access to those characters. My Sony Vaio, however, made in Japan, China or someplace in SE Asia, was made for the American consumer so I cut and paste them from the interwebs....

If you do not have the ability to type the umlaut like in Düsseldorf, you can always type it "Duesseldorf" and it would be just as appropiate, Same with many German names like "Götze" to "Goetze", "Özil" to "Oezil" or "Müller" as "Mueller"

 

http://home.fau.edu/etrotter/web/German_Character_Keyboard_Shortcuts.htm


There is some other way to set up your keyboard to do umlauts on Windows machines, but I forget how to do it. It has been several years since I went over to the dark side, or more accurately, since I left it.

 

It's irrelevant anyway - Düsseldorf is a name. Orthography rules don't apply to those .

 

Works on every keyboard, there's a code for every character (you need to type the number on the numerical keypad, though).

All codes:
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html

Although I have a German keyboard, of course . ß is to the right of 0 here, Ü is one left of P, Ö and Ä are right of L. In case anyone was wondering.

 

Sascha is a pretty common name in Germany. In the early 80s it was among the 30 or so most popular first names for boys in Germany. There are a lot of people in their 20s and 30s now with this name.

(Mostly) German pro footballers named Sascha:
http://www.weltfussball.de/suche/?q=sascha&kind=1&x=0&y=0

 

Yeah, I know that it doesn't apply to the modern name, I just wasn't 100% sure that it wasn't written with an "ß" back in the 17th C. or something.

 

I believe Essen was, at one point.

 

eßen?

 

so ß replaces "ss" right? can this be used at will? the umlots replace an e following the vowel in question?

 

FWIW, the original spelling of the name is Dusseldorp .

 

Yep.

 

No, you can't just swap them wherever you want. That's what started the whole discussion.

 

For more ß information, and to keep the off-topic talk here to a minimum again, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

Although there will be a new thread soon anyway .

Not commonly, as far as I know.

 

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