Not to pick nits, but If we are going by partial names only: 'Krull+Mann" gives 4890 and of course "Felix+Mann" gives 92600 (most of which are useless) while "Tonio+Mann" gives 4690 4860 and 4690 are close but Krull+Mann in English gives 2260 while Tonio+Mann in English gives only 1260 [Krull+Mann in German gives 2100; Tonio+Mann in German gives 2550] Indicating that the English language canon differs from the German Canon (and in fact is reversed in this case) in terms of their relative importance. We can now quibble about which canon should be used for German literature in English language quizbowl. The correctness of the spelling of course depends on the language, umlauts are not standard English , as we did away with most silly accent marks centuries ago. -- dml David Levinson writes: "On Google Tonio+Kroger+Mann turns up 596 Felix+Krull+Mann turns up 2580 So if Google is a good representation of the canon (its better than most), it suggests Krull is more important." I don't think this is correct. For instance, the search "Tonio+Mann" turns up 4,690 hits--almost all of which spell "Kroger" correctly--with an umlaut. Searching with high-bit ASCII character 148 for tonio+Krger+mann, yields 2,510 which, combined with the 318 of "tonio+Kroeger+mann" still puts it in the lead. The moral? Use Google with caution, particularly when dealing with foreign titles--I'm nowhere near certain that my efforts have resulted in an accurate representation of the relative frequency that the two works are mentioned. -- R. Robert Hentzel President and Chief Technical Officer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
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