7.1458, Sum: German spelling reform

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1458. Thu Oct 17 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  73
 
Subject: 7.1458, Sum: German spelling reform
 
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Date:  Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:51:20 BST
From:  GOSHEA at acadamh.ucd.ie (GAVIN O SHEA LINGUISTICS PG)
Subject:  spelling reform
 
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Date:  Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:51:20 BST
From:  GOSHEA at acadamh.ucd.ie (GAVIN O SHEA LINGUISTICS PG)
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   (goshea at acadamh.ucd.ie)
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