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Old 12-17-2012, 02:26 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
More precisely, it was a coordinated effort by bored, tenured Germanists, because the unwanted reform met with great resistance and ultimately achieved very few of its lofty goals and actually added to the confusion, because it made some reformed spellings optional.

For example, one of the leading German spelling add-ons now offers a spell-check function for 5(!) different flavors of German.



BTW, nowadays the only tell-tale sign of a text in "reformed" German is the spelling of dass, which used to be written daß. ("ß" is now only used after long vowels and diphthongs.)
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