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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!inka.de!mips.inka.de!.POSTED.localhost!not-for-mail From: Christian Weisgerber Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Official German spelling update Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:41:24 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87o77158s5.fsf@parhasard.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:41:24 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: lorvorc.mips.inka.de; posting-host="localhost:::1"; logging-data="46461"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mips.inka.de" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Bytes: 2546 Lines: 33 On 2024-07-13, Aidan Kehoe wrote: > > > The Council for German Orthography has released the report about > > > its activities during the period 2017-2023 as well as a revised > > > official ruleset combined with a new edition of its word list. > > Thanks for the series of posts, I hadn’t noticed the change. Nothing drastic to > it, as far as I can see. I just finished going through the report. Among other things, it details the changes and provides rationales. Overall those are just minor tweaks for some corner cases. There are also some purely editorial changes; the Council is proud to have condensed the description of the comma rules and to have improved the overall integration of ruleset and word list. The report also contains some hints how the sausage is made. You would think that orthography is a purely prescriptive endeavor, but it turns out there is a large descriptive component. They monitor the usage of professional writers (newspapers mostly) and are trying to accommodate what people actually use if it can be formalized in rules and doesn't interfere with other aspects of the orthography. Also, assimilated spellings that fail to catch on (e.g. "Spagetti") are dropped again. The Austrians are running a project where they analyze secondary school exit exams (Matura) for adherence to the standard orthography. Two thirds of the mistakes are comma-related, one third are spelling mistakes. More than half of the latter relate to the capitalization rules, the next largest group is closed versus open compounds. Water is wet. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de