Anonymous,Interesting post. I've always found the ...

2007-08-28T09:06:00.000-07:00

Anonymous,

Interesting post. I've always found the German language to be complicated enough without any rule changes.

There was a not as extreme but nonetheless significant change in the United States when some school districts shifted from using phonics to teach reading. Many of the critics of that change argued that it resulted in poorer spelling skills.

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Hello,for me, this sounds quite funny.Hereover, in...

2007-08-27T08:25:00.000-07:00

Hello,

for me, this sounds quite funny.

Hereover, in the german-speaking countries, we do have strict rules on what ist to spell in capital letters and what is not, as well as pointing is crucially regularized.
Guess what? - First
"The Officials" changed the rules. Children in school are now leraning other, often nit quite easier rules, then their parents did. Most of the newspapers finally "switched" this year - the past five years it was about 50/50 amongst the papers, adopting or refusing the "new rules".
Guess what? - Second
The caos is much greater, then between british and american english.

So if we now try to be this rigid for applications, as you point it out, we'd need help ourselves, to figure out, what is and was correct and what -until now- ever had.*

* = Some proposals in the latest version of "The Rules" were removed or changed, since the first public attempts to make them easier about five years ago.

I wish you all the best and very good luck with your searches.

Best regards
Weekly-Spectator

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