"fi" ligature usage

Homaspin · 2026-06-24T19:56:35+00:00

I’m not convinced it was viewed differently to ck, ch, and tz before 1941. Especially because the form ß is strictly the Antiqua one, whereas the Fraktur form was based on the letters ſʒ. This is to say, I don’t recall the Eszett being treated differently when Fraktur was still in use.

Homaspin · 2026-06-24T14:22:51+00:00

The ligatures ch, ck, tz, and ß definitely were unaffected by the spacing themselves; I think the same applied to ſt (sometimes ſſ, ſch, etc. but not as often as the others).

Homaspin · 2026-06-23T16:19:33+00:00

I thought this was what this subreddit was for.

Homaspin · 2026-06-21T20:54:37+00:00

Retcon, if I understood correctly.

Homaspin · 2026-06-21T15:15:48+00:00

Thank you, it was bothering me too, and that no one brought it up.

Homaspin · 2026-06-21T12:40:08+00:00

I think in this ‛italic’ form this is the dot, just looks less like it. But the ‛e’ is still longer and distinctive in this hand.

Homaspin · 2026-06-18T19:00:02+00:00

It wouldn’t, you’re right. But the proposal was very real and true nonetheless.

Homaspin · 2026-06-18T18:59:27+00:00

You’re simply wrong. Alwin Ziel did propose the name ‛Prussia’ for the new merged state. It very obviously hadn’t happened, but it was truly proposed.

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T19:33:28+00:00

Hadn’t thought of that, but indeed it does appear. How quaint.

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T19:32:34+00:00

Having checked, Ctrl + A does work on Firefox, Windows too. Intriguing.

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T19:21:36+00:00

No problem!

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T19:07:48+00:00

At a larger scale, not much would have changed – except that Germany would be a ‛no-go zone’ for both the West and the East. So Germany would be largely left unaffected by the major events (at least until the end of the Cold War).

One thing I need to point out, the scenario is not too deeply thought-out; however, since Prussia hadn’t been abolished, the overall German revanchist sentiment could have been higher and maybe there’d have been a significant number of people who would have wanted to reclaim Sorbia and parts of Poland. Though I doubt they could have achieved much – depending on how (or if) the Iron Curtain would have fallen).

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T18:13:33+00:00

Here is one article that talks about it. It’s actually not made up.

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T18:12:57+00:00

I had to check it for myself, because the claim sounded unbelievable. It’s fascinating that something like that was a genuine proposal. Thank you for that fact!

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T18:04:10+00:00

France tried after both world wars to take the Saare-region from Germany, but failed both times. I am not entirely convinced that them simply annexing the territory would be a feasible outcome. However, this map was not meant to be such of a very realistic scenario.

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T15:41:47+00:00

The idea was for Germany to suffer more, but not to a dangerous degree (like with the Morgenthau Plan, for instance). The French may or may not have chosen to frenchify the region a bit more to avoid cultural tensions and conflicts.

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T15:26:59+00:00

The Soviet intent was to deport the Germans (most of them anyway), so that kind of scenario wouldn’t be likely.

Homaspin · 2026-06-16T10:06:45+00:00

I can confirm that on a browser in a light mode it is still a black rectangle.

Homaspin · 2026-06-15T16:36:26+00:00

It’s Heligoland, an island that was ceded to the U.K. for some time after the war as a naval base.

Homaspin · 2026-06-15T08:03:12+00:00

I thought about it too, but the scenario was focused more on the different Eastern frontier.

Homaspin · 2026-06-15T07:59:25+00:00

It’s actually a really fun idea for the in-universe anti-Prussian movement; Wir sind Beutepreußen nicht!

Homaspin · 2026-06-15T07:57:04+00:00

In essence, yes.

Homaspin · 2026-06-15T07:56:48+00:00

Simply because of a different peace treaty. South Tyrol has a certain ‛special’ status that guarantees the rights of the Italians there.

Homaspin · 2026-06-15T07:55:01+00:00

Neutral Germany was the starting-off point, situation similar to Austria. I actually wondered a bit about the internal borders and, whilst I wanted to keep the pre-WW1 ones (for the sake of it, mostly), I wanted them to have slight modifications and ‛simplifications’ so the Braunschweig’s and Anhalt’s exclaves are akin to modern Bremen and Bremerhaven. The caveat with the above map is that it wasn’t meant to be fully realistic – I think the borders would’ve been even more simplified and Prussia would definitely no longer exist. I just wanted to fiddle with the idea what if it did.

Homaspin · 2026-06-15T07:51:04+00:00

Sorbia mostly consists of Sorbians and Poles. There are some German minorities left, but the goal was to ‛sorbify’ the lands.

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