English influence on German spelling

Language Log 2024-10-09

Summary:

Below is a guest post by Andreas Stolcke. This is an item maybe worthy of a note on Language Log — Philip Oltermann, "Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval", The Guardian 10/7/2024: A relaxation of official rules around the correct use of apostrophes in German has not only irritated grammar […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=66423&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=english-influence-on-german

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Tags:

orthography

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/09/2024, 12:19

Date published:

10/09/2024, 06:02