LINGUIST List 7.1458

Thu Oct 17 1996

Sum: German spelling reform

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  • GAVIN O SHEA LINGUISTICS PG, spelling reform

    Message 1: spelling reform

     Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:51:20 BST
    From: GAVIN O SHEA LINGUISTICS PG <GOSHEAacadamh.ucd.ie>
    Subject: spelling reform


    A number of months ago I posted a query on the German spelling reform, which was then about to be introduced. On the 1st July the political decisions were taken to eventually bring a reform about. Since posting my query, there has been a constant trickle of enquiries asking where further information is available. Therefore I have put together the following _small_ list on the topic, of WWW addresses.

    On the German reform, I have only been able to locate information in German, at:

    http://www.ids-mannheim.de/pub/rechtschreibung.html and http://www.wuerzburg.de/spec/rechtschreibreform/ortho_98.html/#INHALT

    both of these include references to printed works. The only decent article on the reform in English is in the Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, 1995, 2, 18-21; which is a translation of a Spiegel interview. That society may publish a more up to date article in their second issue for 1996.

    If people are interested in similar proposals for English, you can try:

    http://www.les.acton.ac.uk/simplspel.html (that hyphen before the 'simpl' may be dot!)

    and for foreign loans in Dutch and Norwegian respectively:

    http://www.nl.net/~koopal/nlfaqs/nwspel-brochure.html

    http://www. dokpro.uio.no/sprakrad/engord.html

    I hope this will be of help to some more people interested in the subject.

    Gavin O Se Dept. Linguistics Ucd Dublin 4 (gosheaacadamh.ucd.ie)