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ß for German!

• atomwaffel 10y ago
  Yes, if you spot ß, that's a dead giveaway for German. You can't really rely on it alone for identification however because it's not that frequent (or rather, it's very inconsistent – German can run for paragraphs without a single ß only to make up for it with five of them in a single sentence). It's also not used at all in Swiss German. Another near-certain giveaway is that all nouns in German are capitalised. The only other language that does that and uses the Latin alphabet is Luxembourgish, and you're probably not looking at that.