Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Jonathan Swift published a proposal to regulate English (22-2-1712) Date: 5 Mar 2024 16:23:34 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 9 Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <877civp1ys.fsf@parhasard.net> <877cihavu3.fsf@parhasard.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de HJiinPZoiCMs/3FNs3Nq3w2fr2udXgauk3c5bJUNPWJfcG Cancel-Lock: sha1:6ogwwlmyi64U42EvTUzscQmlE1U= sha256:T1jdyC21u26a5qx8avVM4dcvN9glR8Om45/75zEkTtA= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Accept-Language: de-DE-1901, en-US, it, fr-FR Antonio Marques wrote or quoted: >Stefan Ram wrote: >>(A foreign language learner learning German also has to >>memorize for every word whether an S sound at the end is >>spelled "s" or "ss/ß". >A foreigner only has to know the spelling and pronounce accordingly, Yes, but when he knows the spelling he knows /a fortiori/ whether it ends in "s", "ss", or "ß".