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Subject: Re: Official German spelling update
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:47:27 -0000 (UTC)
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Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> On 2024-07-13, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> 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.
> 

Could you break down _Vielen Dank_ grammatically for us?