A quote I literally laughed out loud at

[pne]

Seen in someone's email sig:

What do you mean the Internet isn't filled with subliminal messages? What about all those buttons marked "submit"??

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ſ

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the rules (such as they were) were like in English back when long-s was used, but in German, "iſ" would have been wrong since "ſ" used, IIRC, only syllable-initially while "s" was used in final position.

I'm not sure what "resistance" would have been spelled like since I'm not sure whether it would have been analysed as "re-sis-tance" or "re-si-stance" (or "res-i-stance"? German syllabification, at least for purposes of hyphenation, is fairly etymological sometimes, which is not intuitive; I certainly wouldn't think to syllabify Linoleum as Lin-ole-um since I pronounce it Li-no-le-um).

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Re: ſ

[node-ue.livejournal.com]

I think you're correct, except I don't think there was anything to do with syllabification, just word position.