German

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Germany or its

people or language; "German philosophers"; "German

universities"; "German literature" [syn: {German}]

2: of a more or less German nature; somewhat German; "Germanic

peoples"; "his Germanic nature"; "formidable volumes

Teutonic in their thoroughness [syn: {German}, {Germanic},

{Teutonic}]

n 1: a native or inhabitant of Germany [syn: {German}]

2: the standard German language; developed historically from

West Germanic [syn: {German}, {High German}, {German

language}]

German

\j▫r'mn\ A human language written (in latin

alphabet) and spoken in Germany, Austria and parts of

Switzerland.

German writing normally uses four non-{ASCII} characters:

"����", the first three have "umlauts" (two dots over the

top): A O and U and the last is a double-S ("scharfes S")

which looks like the Greek letter beta (except in capitalised

words where it should be written "SS"). These can be written

in ASCII in several ways, the most common are ae, oe ue AE OE

UE ss or sz and the {TeX} versions "a "o "u "A "O "U "s.

See also {ABEND}, {blinkenlights}, {DAU}, {DIN}, {gedanken},

{GMD}, {kluge}.

{Usenet} newsgroup: {news:soc.culture.german}.

{(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faq)},

{(ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.Z)}.

(1995-03-31)