Talk:MAP32: Grosse (Doom II)

The Essorg link appears to be 404. Draconio 23:22, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Obsolete German
>"Grösse" itself is an obsolete spelling of the German word "Größe"

Actually it's the other way round. The Germans have been trying to streamline their language, and remove most of the accents, and the special letter ess-zett (S-Z, the "B" looking letter that makes the "ss" sound). A lot of this probably has to do with technology. Some Germans aren't too happy about it, seeing no reason to throw out heritage just to align their language within the parameters of English, or pragmatically, American English. So this means that "Größe" is the obsolete spelling. "Grösse" is the modern one. Or even "Groesse" if we're doing away with the umlauts (not the precious umlauts!) as well. Which they are doing, replacing with "oe" or "ue" etc.

Anyway that was my interesting little tour around modern German linguistic politics, but the point I'm making is you've got the obsolete one the wrong way round. Nice website for a great game, been playing Doom since not long after launch. 84.67.116.161 08:57, 1 February 2023 (CST)