Über Deutsch

A quick shout out from Deutschland...

I am headed back to Bologna tomorrow and will try and post with some photos before the weekend is out, but for now, you will just have to leave to your imagination all of the beer, kraut, pretzels and apple strudel...also some pretty interesting non-food related stuff in this country, which I will write about a bit later.

Now, I am waiting for the train in an internet cafe in Ingolstadt, not far from where I am staying in Schrobenhausen.

Since this will be one of my last opportunities to type on a German keyboard before returning, I might as well take as much advantage as I can of the standard "ü" and "ß" on the keyboard....not sure how these characters will transfer over blogger, but, they are so great I think we should annex them into the English language.

For example, each time you would normally write a word with a double s, like "class," you could instead write it "claß." Do you have any idea how much time that would save? The poßible benefits to the economy are practically immeasurable.

And for emphasis, as in "über," you could always use the ümlaut instead of just a normal "u." Like when you would normally say "I love you," or "I am really mad at you," instead you could say "I love yoü." Yeah, doesn´t really get the point across in the spoken word, but in writing it could be very poetic.

Okay, I will save the rest of the good stuff about Germany (including the photos) for the next few posts.

Until the, hope that yoü are having a good day and we will talk soon! Ciao!